e r i c g u e n e t t e
Eric Guenette is an abstract painter based in Lagos, Portugal. He works mainly in latex paint, as well as acrylic, spray paint, oil pastels, markers and ink on canvas. He also paints primarily with scraps of cut wood and rarely uses brushes. Guenette creates the structural and decorative framing, as well as hand stretching the canvas for his works.
“I feel a strong connection to my grandfather, Marcel Guenette, who was a custom golf shoe maker at Footjoy for most of his life in Brockton, Massachusetts. He was a man that could build anything with his hands. I draw upon his spirit as I am working on pieces in my studio garage in the heat and dust. His can-do blue collar work ethic inspires my use of latex paint. Painting with wood scraps takes me back to his old wood shop and gives me a tactile sense of working with natural tools and injecting random imperfections into my pieces. The angled cuts on the scrapers allow for a repetitious motion to scrape and re-apply paint quickly in the same movement, depending on the angle of the stroke. I hope to carry his determined spirit on in my work.” –Eric Guenette
Guenette was born in Winter Park, Florida (1967) and lived in the Palm Beach County, Florida area until he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2009, where he began his freelance business New Mexico Creative. After painting and working as a professional artist and graphic designer for the last 20+ years, he moved to Lagos, Portugal in the 2024.
Current available works below.
Exhibitions:
2024
El Verde Inn (Rio Rancho) - Dec/Feb
2023
Albuquerque Sunport (Albuquerque) - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jan/Dec
2022
Albuquerque Sunport (Albuquerque) - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jul/Dec
Events:
2015-2023
Sandia Height Artists Studio Tour (Albuquerque) - Sept
Contact: sleepingdogslie@yahoo.com
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“I feel a strong connection to my grandfather, Marcel Guenette, who was a custom golf shoe maker at Footjoy for most of his life in Brockton, Massachusetts. He was a man that could build anything with his hands. I draw upon his spirit as I am working on pieces in my studio garage in the heat and dust. His can-do blue collar work ethic inspires my use of latex paint. Painting with wood scraps takes me back to his old wood shop and gives me a tactile sense of working with natural tools and injecting random imperfections into my pieces. The angled cuts on the scrapers allow for a repetitious motion to scrape and re-apply paint quickly in the same movement, depending on the angle of the stroke. I hope to carry his determined spirit on in my work.” –Eric Guenette
Guenette was born in Winter Park, Florida (1967) and lived in the Palm Beach County, Florida area until he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2009, where he began his freelance business New Mexico Creative. After painting and working as a professional artist and graphic designer for the last 20+ years, he moved to Lagos, Portugal in the 2024.
Current available works below.
Exhibitions:
2024
El Verde Inn (Rio Rancho) - Dec/Feb
2023
Albuquerque Sunport (Albuquerque) - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jan/Dec
2022
Albuquerque Sunport (Albuquerque) - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jul/Dec
Events:
2015-2023
Sandia Height Artists Studio Tour (Albuquerque) - Sept
Contact: sleepingdogslie@yahoo.com
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"Albuquerque" 25" x 26" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2024.
"Wake" 57" x 57" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2024.
"Albeit" 20.5" x 20.5" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2024.
"Kenji" 24" x 45.5" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2024.
"is" 26.5" x 35" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2024.
"Roner" 29" x 29" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Dybbuk" 15" x 12" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Meekrowahveh II" 16" x 16" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Meekrowahveh III" 6.5" x 13.5" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"cmy" 32" x 36" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Boca del Mar" 23" x 31" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Bacchanal" 48" x 48" Mixed media and wood, (frameless /floating) 2023.
"Tit for tat" 25" x 29" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"All at once" 18.5" x 21" (including frame) Mixed media and cardboard, 2023.
"Anodyne" 38" x 38" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Ins and outs and what have yous" 10.5" x 23" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"The Valley of Fires" 36" x 36" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Poppycock" 19" x 25" Mixed media and wood, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Bulwark" 18" x 27" Mixed media and wood, (white wood frame) 2023.
"Datsun is the new Skylab" 16" x 35" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2023.
"I went to Florida and all I got was this stupid tee shirt" - 28.5" x 28.5" Mixed media and felt bed liner (white wood frame) 2023.
"Thieves in the thistle" - 21" x 34" Mixed media and canvas (white wood frame) 2023.
"Take me with you" - 90" x 60" Latex and canvas, (no decorative frame) 2022.
"Querencia" - 38" x 48" Mixed media and wood, (no decorative frame) 2022.
"German Burrito" - 12.5" x 18.5" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2022.
"Bugs, fixes and improvements" - 14.5" x 16" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2022.
"A flower in the crack of a sidewalk" - 21.5" x 32" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2022.
"Moot" - 30.5" x 30.5" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2022.
"Chewing the fat" - 32.5" x 41" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2022.
"Savita" - 20.5" x 28" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2022.
"Hogre is not dead, he is sleepin'" - 28.5" x 28.5" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2022.
"Volo" 30" x 16" Mixed media and wood, (mounted on 3" white backing) 2022.
"Douro" - 19.5" x 19.5" Latex and canvas, (unframed) 2022.
"Sintra" - 19.5" x 19.5" Latex and canvas, (unframed) 2022.
"Square peg round hole" - 30" x 30" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2021.
"Zion" - 24" x 40" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood edge frame) 2021.
"If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you" - 39" x 39" Mixed media and wood, (White wood framed) 2021.
"Diekmann" - 31" x 31" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2020.
"Joshua" - 33" x 33" Mixed media and canvas, (white wood frame) 2020.
"Borka" - 28" x 28" Mixed media and canvas (white wood frame) 2019.