Eric Guenette

Eric is an American painter currently living in Lagos, Portugal. He primarily utilizes common household paints and materials to create abstract works such as Latex house paint, spray paint; simple wood for structural decorative framing and canvas and fiberboard for surface materials. Paint application is usually done with small pieces of cut framing wood or recycled plastic used as scrapers and rarely applied with brushes. The work has an organic feel all the way through the painting process.

One of his biggest artistic influences was his grandfather Marcel, who was a golf shoe maker at Footjoy in Brockton, Massachusetts for thirty years. "He could build anything with his hands. He could often be found in his small wood shop behind his house in Winter Park, Florida. As a child, I would be transfixed as my grandfather built all sort of projects with whatever materials he has to work with. This inspires me to this day to work in a fully organic process. I feel that it is important to be involved in every aspect of the artwork, from the construction of the homemade frames, stretching house painter drip cloths as my canvas material and finishing most of the artwork with clean white pine decorative framing."

As a self-taught abstract painter and professional graphic designer for more than 25 years, Guenette combines traditional graphic design principles with unique painting processes to present his point of view. The invaluable experience of meandering slowly through the woods and falling behind is the intention. Working in dusty, makeshift studios in garages and patios that hamper perfection are absolutely necessary to escape the rote. Painter's dropcloths, handmade raw wood frames, mis-tinted latex paint, sand, dog hair, sweat, wine stains and the feeling of swimming in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight. This work is not for everyone. In the end, when AI creates the perfect art for an impeccable space and everyone stands fashionably facing the bright lights, this art will have done what it came to do...even if it percolates deep in a New Jersey landfill (and who knows how it got there from Lagos, Portugal), it was the right thing to do.

............................

E X H I B I T I O N S :

2024
Abstrac.Ted - Feature Nov

2023
El Verde Inn (Rio Rancho) - Dec/Feb

2024
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jan/Dec

2022
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre - Jul/Dec
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept

2021
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept

2020
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour- Sept

2019
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept

2018
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept

2017
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept

2016
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept

2015
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept

............................

Eric Guenette was born in Winter Park, Florida (1967) and lived in Haymarket, Virginia as well as Boca Raton, Boynton Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida until moving to Albuquerque in 2009. He currently resides in Lagos, Portugal as of 2025 with his wife of 21 years.

............................

Shown are the current artworks that are available for purchase. Most of the physical artworks are in Lagos, Portugal, with the exception of a few pieces, which are currently located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.