Erik Bender: Zombie Birdhouse @ Right Window ATA

Organized by Conrad Guevara

This exhibition centers on Erik’s recent lightbox works. Born out of experiments on transparent sheets of corroplast, these works further the artists focus on transparency, layering and chance interactions between surface and pigment.

The new corrugated lightbox work have a seductive, translucent surface that recall green houses and terrariums. This is especially serendipitous with the artist’s signature imagery of alien-like orchid species and intricate spiderwebs shimmering against dark backgrounds. Here Erik is tending the environment for mysterious, potentially
venomous characters to thrive, a process that comes with a dedication to light, temperature and atmosphere and allows shadowy things to reveal themselves.

Erik Bender (b. 1990) lives and works in Oakland, CA. He was a the recent subject of “Call of the Void” a two-person show with Laura Rokas at 1599FDT, San Francisco,
CA. Recent Group Exhibitions include “The Soft Parade” at 1599FDT, San Francisco, CA, “a pattern of window frames” organized by Saif Azzuz at et al, San Francisco, CA and “Hopelessly Devoted” at Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA. Bender received his BA from UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department.