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This an abstract industrial scene based on woodblock prints made from drawings done in Newark looking across to North Arlington.The woodblocks were done as an attempt to make this style of painting into a print form. I often am asked when people first see these paintings"What kind of prints are these?". The prints never worked to recreate the look I achieve here with paint. They did however lend themselves to creating new abstract forms for imagined industrial scenes.

Born 1961 Tokyo, Japan Lives and Works in Bogota, NJ USA Ron Erickson's world and his reaction to it are expressed through his paintings. The subjects of Ron Erickson's paintings are everyday urban,suburban and industrial settings. They are the scenes we pass daily in our cars on the way to work...the house across the street...the backyard...the industrial landscape alongside the New Jersey Turnpike or on the edges of our suburbs. It is in these scenes that Ron Erickson finds the shapes, colors, light and sky that evoke an emotional response in him, making him want to record them. In painting them Ron Erickson wants to evoke emotions in those who see his work. The expressionist abstraction of his painting best represents the depth of...