Artist's Statement

Erik Shorrock Guzman's artworks consist of a multitude finely cut parts of aluminum, glass and plastics. Each of these material elements converge to create mechanical devices that rotate, point, generate sound, and illuminate without obvious or logical results. A marriage between craft and movement allows for an aesthetic to evolve that is independent of the two.

Guzman's body of work, The Lost Sense, consists of one large kinetic piece and a series of drawings. The Lost Sense captures the overwhelming sense of being bombarded with machines - personal computers, PDAs, iPODS, HDTV, PSP. Designed to enrich and simplify our lives, these machines further remove human sensation away from authentic experience and the real. The scale and impact of The Lost Sense is designed to conjure the disorientation of stumbling upon an alien that has inexplicably fallen to earth. The sculptural component of The Lost Sense rotates a hypnotic wheel of 5000 watts of light, creating a subsonic boom to jar and reawaken the invisible senses that have been dulled by the effect of quasi-utilitarian technology on society.

Guzman has exhibited in, among other venus, S-files in El Museo del Barrio and Museo de arte de Puerto Rico and Hillwood Museum.

Artist's Bio

Erik Shorrock Guzman has been active as an artist in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for 8 years. During this time, Guzman has been involved in organizing and/or participating in over 50 art events. Among many professional accomplishments are his Joan Mitchell nomination, selection as School of Visual Arts representative at the New York College Art Association show and Cue Foundation resident. He has exhibited locally in New York City, Smack Mellon, El Museo Del Barrio (S Files), Front Room Gallery, Soap Factory, Hillwood Museum, Dumbo Art Festival, The Kitchen, Exit Art, St. Marks Church Gallery. International exposure includes shows at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Goliath in Hamburg, Germany and Gallery Tezz, Tokyo, Japan. Erik is the Co-Director of Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn, which has been in operation for seven years and is a non-profit visual arts space dedicated to showing the work of emerging artists often overlooked by commercial galleries and regarded as commercially non-viable. Erik received his BFA, with honors, and MFA, with a full scholarship, from the School of Visual Arts. Erik is currently Director of SVA’s sculpture department, where he oversees safety and is responsible for the technical education of over 250 students.