About the artist
Eric Guenette
Eric is an American painter currently living in Lagos, Portugal. He primarily utilizes common household paints and materials to create abstract works such as Latex house paint, spray paint; simple wood for structural decorative framing and canvas and fiberboard for surface materials. Paint application is usually done with small pieces of cut framing wood or recycled plastic used as scrapers and rarely applied with brushes. The work has an organic feel all the way through the painting process.
One of his biggest artistic influences was his grandfather Marcel, who was a golf shoe maker at Footjoy in Brockton, Massachusetts for thirty years. "He could build anything with his hands. He could often be found in his small wood shop behind his house in Winter Park, Florida. As a child, I would be transfixed as my grandfather built all sort of projects with whatever materials he has to work with. This inspires me to this day to work in a fully organic process. I feel that it is important to be involved in every aspect of the artwork, from the construction of the homemade frames, stretching house painter drip cloths as my canvas material and finishing most of the artwork with clean white pine decorative framing."
As a self-taught abstract painter and professional graphic designer for more than 25 years, Guenette combines traditional graphic design principles with unique painting processes to fulfill his artistic expression. Since moving to Lagos in 2024, he has been creating unframed works.
In many of these works, there is a repeating theme of curved shapes which Guenette sees as "abstract portraits," as a visual journalist capturing the stories of human struggle that is not read but felt. This became a focus of his earlier works during the pandemic and has continued to this day.
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E X H I B I T I O N S :
2024
Abstrac.Ted - Feature Nov
2023
El Verde Inn (Rio Rancho) - Dec/Feb 2024
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
Tramway Centre (Albuquerque) - Jan/Dec
2022
Albuquerque Sunport - Sept/Oct
Tramway Centre - Jul/Dec
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
2021
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
2020
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour- Sept
2019
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
2018
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
2017
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
2016
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
2015
Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour - Sept
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Eric Guenette was born in Winter Park, Florida (1967) and lived in Haymarket, Virginia as well as Boca Raton, Boynton Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida until moving to Albuquerque in 2009. He currently resides in Lagos, Portugal as of 2025 with his wife of 21 years.
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Shown are the current artworks that are available for purchase. Most of the physical artworks are in Lagos, Portugal, with the exception of a few pieces, which are currently located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
