Painting and drawing professor John Erickson opened a new exhibition on February 21st at Phillips Gallery in downtown Salt Lake City. His playful artist statement (read below) is a conversation between his two cats as they try to describe their human's creative struggles. In an excellent review by Geoff Wichert in 15Bytes magazine, he describes some of the new work in the  exhibition:

While he’s always shown a fair number of large works that are framed or otherwise seem to be finished, here there’s a welcome complement to them of some 50 small paintings, apparently all watercolors, each of which is on a single sheet of paper that has been secured to the gallery wall with binder clips. They’re mostly scenes of John and Barbara Erickson with their family and friends, frolicking in the wilderness, or at least the outdoors. In the past such pieces have been casually inserted in handy frames, but their wholesale display here adds a new dimension to his image as a working artist.

The exhibition runs through March 14th and is open to the public. Please visit the Phillips Gallery website for hours.

Featured image photography by Geoff Wichert.