Eric Angeloch

Born in Woodstock, New York to a family of artists, Eric Angeloch studied at the Arts Students League of New York Summer School, The Art Students League in New York City on full scholarship and at the Woodstock School of Art where he has been an instructor of Painting & Drawing For Everyone for the past twenty-four years. His work has been exhibite... d and collected internationally. " Eric Angeloch, is arguably the most accomplished landscape painter of the moment. His is a style reminiscent of 17th century Dutch painting at its best. And yet is somehow very modern in its precision and cleanalmost hushed-commentary on the pace of modern life. They capture a strange stillness, be it in Cape Cod marshes or a Catskill field. Look at the paintings and see what's quietly said in each piece he's pulled together through his idiosyncratic mix of memory and acute observation. The same as the best fiction. And non-fiction. Eric Angeloch's hitting the truth once more, as only a deepening, truly great artist can." "The art of landscape painting is alive and well - and hardly more competently handled than in this exhibit of paintings by Eric Angeloch. in the sparest of canvas area, Angeloch carries the illusion of great distance and limitless space, sharing with us a view of nature that, at the same time, is both intimate and vaguely measureless. He accomplishes this sleight-of-hand through meticulously limned details in the foreground and a subtle use of aerial perspective that causes the viewer to feel very much "in" the foreground of the picture while gazing off into an indistinct distance.what more can we ask of an artist than that he make us think? Eric Angeloch's new paintings do that and then some. You ought not miss spending some time to share in his vision." "Angeloch's major new work, a twelve panel panorama of Cooper Lake, stays with the familiar topography but treats it more deeply than the eye is accustomed to reach. The paintings are as much about what he feels when he views the site as what he seesthe mood ...Read More