Eric Sealine

Eric Sealine was born in 1948 and raised in Iowa where he received his degree from Iowa State University in 1970. For many years his medium was abstract painting and enameling on plate glass, which he exhibited throughout the United States including shows at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Heller Gallery in New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early 1980's he abandoned abstraction to focus on variations of realism.

In 1990 Sealine began work on his forced perspective constructions. "I spend a lot of time thinking about the visual cues we use to decipher the world. I am continually surprised by the way the brain can make sense of wildly skewed and compressed information -- as long as it is skewed and compressed in a consistent manner. Classical perspective only works for a small area of our visual field; straight lines are straight only because we know them to be. Context is everything."

Each of Sealine's constructions has a story to tell, however, when viewed as a whole, the entire body of work becomes autobiographical. Each object within the piece is thoughtfully chosen and placed. They act as pieces in a puzzle which reflect the artist's life and musings.