Eric National Mack (born 1987) is an American painter, multi-media

installation artist Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

, and sculptor, based in New York City.

Early life and education

Mack was born in Columbia, Maryland. His middle name is National, after Washington DC's

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...

—where his parents met. At an early age, Mack worked for his father at his discount clothing store interacting with a spectrum of fashions and fabrics. Mack's fabric

collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

s often include a spectrum of materials such as moving blankets, bandanas, and other found or locally sourced fabrics.

Career

In January 2019, Mack opened at solo show at the

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

titled: ''Lemme walk across the room''. Opening in May 2019, Mack is set to show in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, curated by

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and

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Residencies

*2017 Rauschenberg Residency *2014–2015 The Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residency Program

Public collections

*Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

References

External links

‘Style Waits for No Bitch’: Eric N. Mack’s Fashion Icons
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