Work of the Week by Erik Hagen

Monday, September 10, 2018

Ice melting, "Texas City and Galveston, Year 2500"

Thursday, July 9, 2015

I'm back! After a 2-year break doing policy analysis for the Northeast Midwest Institute in Washington, D.C., I am now focusing on my art career here in Houston and will begin re-posting pictures to this "work of the week" blog. I have opened a gallery-space in an artists' cooperative called 'The Silos on Sawyer.' Here's some pictures of the space.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Invitation to an opening June 13, 2012 in The Hague

Fossilized toy car, mixed media

You are invited to an opening on June 13th at Ernst and Young. The work I am showing is from a series called "Fossils of the Anthropocene." Here's the idea behind the artwork:

Geologic eras are marked by mass extinctions. Some geologists say we are living in a new geologic era, the age of man. These paintings/sculptures are meant to evoke the fossils that might be found in 100+ million years. The paintings are mixed media made from linen, pigment, marble dust, cast objects, varnish, and resin.

I have been called away to work in Washington DC, so I will not be at the opening but Tamara will be there to represent me. There will also be exciting work from a Hungarian-born artist named Zsolt Mathe. I hope that you can come, as I have put a lot of work into the series over the last half year, and would love to share it with you. For those of you who cannot come, I will eventually put together a website and promise to let you know by the work of the week post when it is done.

Here are the details for the opening:

Ernst & Young
5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
June 13, 2012
Wassenaarseweg 80, 2596 CZ

The Hague

Friday, December 23, 2011

Snow no. 1

Snow no. 1. 2011.
Oil on linen.
40 x 30 cm (15.8" x 11.8").

Snow no. 1. detail

Well, it IS the season.

Happy Holidays, Fijne Kerstdagen,

Happy New Year een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar to all!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Water 5

Water 5. 2011.
Oil on linen.
40 x 30 cm (15.8" x 11.8").

Friday, July 22, 2011

Water 4

Water 4. 2011.
Oil on linen.
40 x 30 cm (15.8" x 11.8").

Water 4. 2011.
Detail

Rain releases a grain of sand from the top of a mountain, which is carried to the sea. It is buried and eventually transformed into a layer of sedimentary rock. Eons later, the stone is lifted by tectonic action. The process begins anew: erosion reveals a timeless beauty in the exposed layers. A human lifetime is but an instant when considered from geologic timeframe.

There are parallels between our lives and the hydrologic cycle; renewal and birth, energy and life, erosion and decay. The physical and often ancient or transient traces left by earth and hydrologic processes are a reminder of our mortality even as they suggest redemption through renewal, evoking the cycles of energy and life.

I am a water resources engineer and artist. The latest 'water' series brings these two halves together. (http://erikrhagen.com/water/water.html)

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

New drawings from the Ipad

Life drawing has never been so fun. I work on the drawings with a big smile on my face. Fantastic. I hope you enjoy the images!

Friday, May 20, 2011

Open Studio: Invitation to Art&Jazz May 21 and 22

As part of Art&Jazz, my atelier is open from 11 to 5 on May 21, and 11 to 3 on May 22. You are invited to to see my studio. I am exhibiting with another artist, Luba Fateeva. There are many more open studios in the 'hood, so if you want to tour some other studios it is a fun day out. I have some maps or you can see the other sites on the web (in Dutch) at http://www.artandjazz.nl/home.html.

Where: Parkweg 9a
2585JG

See you there!