New art show

Saint Philip’s is excited to showcase the work of artist Eric Galbreath beginning this Sunday, December 4, through Thursday, January 5.

All are invited to meet Eric at the opening reception this Sunday, December 4, from 12:15pm-2:00pm in the Murphey Gallery.

Eric was born in New Jersey in 1965, and graduated from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1985. He received his BA in Visual Art and did design work on a freelance basis while earning his Master of Divinity degree.

In 1997 Eric moved to Tucson. He says that the wide open sky and saturated colors captivated his spirit. While designing full time, Eric began painting abstract works as a way to detach from the flat, artificially perfect world inside the computer. Using his hands to manipulate real, physical materials was just the needed catalyst for an explosion of light and color.

“I think the energy of life is a kind of random chaos,” Galbreath says. “Each of us makes some semblance of meaning—imposing order, rearranging, moving, and combining ideas, events, memories. We repeat, correct, update, and edit our histories, overlaying what has come before.”

“Living is a messy process. And this is my basic approach to creating: layer builds on layer, simplicity gives way to complexity. The disorderly and the chaotic, over time, form a beauty, a logic, a composition arrived at, discovered and coaxed, rather than intended or forced.”

“My challenge to the viewer is to connect with my work from a pre-cognitive, nonverbal place; hold closure at bay; appreciate being in the moment with the beauty of ambiguity.”