T.R. Ericsson
Artist
T.R. Ericsson is an artist who employs photo-based work, sculptural objects, and cinema to create installations exploring family tragedy. He has shown his renowned work at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, Art Basel Miami and the Progressive Art Collection.
In the years following his mother’s suicide in 2003, Ericsson amassed an archive that would lay the groundwork for his ongoing series Crackle & Drag. The title comes from the song Crackle and Drag by Paul Westerberg of the alt-rock band The Replacements and pays homage to the poet Sylvia Plath and her poem Edge, which contains the lines: 'The woman is perfected. Her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment…Her blacks crackle and drag.'
One of his most notable works is the series Nicotine Dreams, in which he honoured his late mother in burnt nicotine silkscreens.
Ericsson's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and many other prestigious public and private collections. His books and zines can be found in numerous library collections including the Yale University Arts Library, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
T.R. Ericsson is an artist who employs photo-based work, sculptural objects, and cinema to create installations exploring family tragedy. He has shown his renowned work at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, Art Basel Miami and the Progressive Art Collection.
In the years following his mother’s suicide in 2003, Ericsson amassed an archive that would lay the groundwork for his ongoing series Crackle & Drag. The title comes from the song Crackle and Drag by Paul Westerberg of the alt-rock band The Replacements and pays homage to the poet Sylvia Plath and her poem Edge, which contains the lines: 'The woman is perfected. Her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment…Her blacks crackle and drag.'
One of his most notable works is the series Nicotine Dreams, in which he honoured his late mother in burnt nicotine silkscreens.
Ericsson's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and many other prestigious public and private collections. His books and zines can be found in numerous library collections including the Yale University Arts Library, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
