Erika Horwitz

Erika Lyn Horwitz is known for her layered, gem-like, subtly translucent abstract paintings. Simultaneously organic and topographical, her work explores the intersection between chaos and order, conscious and sub-conscious and intention and accident. The goal of her work is to transport the viewer into a creative-meditative state analogous to the state in which she produces the paintings. Her work embraces the dynamic energy of Abstract Expressionists like Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler w…See all

Erika Lyn Horwitz is known for her layered, gem-like, subtly translucent abstract paintings. Simultaneously organic and topographical, her work explores the intersection between chaos and order, conscious and sub-conscious and intention and accident. The goal of her work is to transport the viewer into a creative-meditative state analogous to the state in which she produces the paintings. Her work embraces the dynamic energy of Abstract Expressionists like Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler while also adopting a Minimalist eschewal of subject, biography and metaphor. Horwitz uses techniques that she developed to blend resin with traditional materials such as oil, acrylic and dry pigment as well as non-traditional materials like metal flakes, automotive paint, broken mirrors and glass as well as spray, auto, interference and color shift paints. By employing organic and even projectile forms, raw or viscous matter my art injects subversive and even an obliquely feminist quality into the world. My art is an extension of myself, hands off detachment and experimentation as well as a scientific exploration. Erika Lyn Horwitz is a classically trained oil painter with a little over two decades of experience. She has exhibited extensively internationally and throughout New York City and has collectors in Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Florida and California See less