Erik White

From the biography on my web site at http://erikwhite.com/home/bio.php

Erik White was born in Redwood City, California, November 15, 1977. He has been painting and drawing since he could walk. Attracted to color and contrast from a young age, he would spend hours drawing as a child. By the age of four Erik had developed a love for painting. Even as a young boy he saw how painting can change a person’s perspective. Paintings explain the language of dreams, and birth new worlds that never before existed. His earliest work combines dream imagery with the natural world he spent so many hours studying and drawing. Starting as many children do with finger paints, pastels, and water colors, Erik began to use acrylics in grade school, and by high school was working in oils.
Graduating from UC Berkeley in 2002 as an English major, he had taken several more Art classes in college, and the classical techniques no longer seemed satisfactory to deal with the new world. Depressed and stressed from the pressure of school and the events of 9/11, he began to search for a method of painting which was both cathartic and beautiful. Using house paint and furniture paint, in the style of Jackson Pollock, a completely new style emerged. Pools of paint on the canvas’s surface capture the movement of paint under the pull of gravity. He named this style Gravitational Art.