About Eric Go

ERIC GO is a modern art abstract painter who lives and works in Manila Philippines. He was born in 1955 and studied at the University of Santo Tomas. Eric is free in choosing his unique way of artistic expression notwithstanding what popular, fashioned, commercially successful art styles are dominating in the Philippines. His works are positive, colorful and with a clear intention to preside over any space in which they are exposed and become a reason for conversation. He is a lone wolf and prefers to create in the solitude of his quiet studio, inspired by the nighttime hours like many an artisan of days gone by. Most of Eric’s work is based on inspiration from modernist architecture and industrial design and a lot of the artist's imagination. His work is held in private collections both in the Philippines and abroad.

His explorations in tone and texture are mainly depicted through portraiture and architectural paintings. He uses a variety of mediums within his work combining oil, acrylic, spray, enamel and graffiti inks. Eric subverts contemporary and modern methods of applying these mediums using brushes, different aperture caps and marker paint mops to orchestrate purposeful marks, strokes, drips, splashes, scrapes and smears across the canvas whilst constructing his exciting and dynamic artworks. He developed a real passion for abstract art, and this is now the main focus of his work. He feels very at home working with abstract forms. He really loves color and vitality in painting, and here he can live out all his creative fantasies and ideas.

Although working with figurative themes, the subject matter within his work is characterized by expressive lines and shapes, influenced by various cultures, and the combination of both figurative and abstract elements his work becomes almost inconsequential. Using found and made images as a starting point. Eric builds layers of pigment, adding abstract fragments as well as bold marks, broken lines and liberal strokes to create contours and features, be they of building facades. Doing this captures something more interesting than literal representation. This visceral connection to color is palpably intuitive to Erik, using it as an expression of internal contemplations.

Over the many years of Eric’s career this relationship with paint and color has developed and shines through, as he experiments with opacity, texture combinations, finishes and light. He has also mastered the art of black and white works which are in great demand nowadays…