Eric Guenette

Since I was a child, I have always seen people from the outside of the circle looking in. Never fitting in, whether it was family, school or strangers. I have worked to fashion a stable social world around me, but the scars of early childhood trauma still shadow me as I find ways the heal through art.

The one connection that I had a young child was my grandfather. he was a golf shoe maker from Brockton, Massachusetts. I admired his ability to create with his hands and his blue collar work ethic. I would spend holidays with him in his workshop and admiring his massive tool collection and basic construction materials that he worked with. This led me to also work in more construction-based materials, following in his footsteps. I work mainly in latex house paint, acrylic and spray paint and I create most of his structural and decorative framing from scratch. Some of the substrates used are cotton painter drop cloths, fiberboard, cardboard, as well as old unwanted paintings. Applying years of professional graphic design principles with my grandfather's common materials, inspires my artistic direction.

Further inspiration from my grandfather's improvisation, I often using scraps of leftover framing wood or plastic scrapers created fr...

Eric Guenette was born in Winter Park, Florida (1967 - ) and lived in Haymarket, Virginia, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida until moving to Albuquerque in 2009. He currently resides in Lagos, Portugal as of 2024 with his wife of 22 years

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El Verde Inn (Rio Rancho) - Dec/Feb 2024
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jan/Dec
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour (2023)

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Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
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