Subterfuge

Erik Geschke

August 3 - September 1, 2024

“Subterfuge” explores issues surrounding modernity, hierarchy, and artifice. Referencing elements of human physiology, industrial design, and art history, Erik Geschke employs simulacrum, meticulously remaking the familiar. Featuring new works in mixed-media sculpture, drawing, and video, Geschke often depicts a fragment of something larger, alluding to what is unseen. Through shifts in scale, material transformations, and subversion, Geschke seeks to disrupt viewers’ perceptions of the world that surrounds them. 

About the Artist:

Erik Geschke is a mixed-media artist who has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Venues include the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA; ZieherSmith Gallery in New York, NY; FIAC Contemporary Art Fair in Paris, France; The Navy Pier in Chicago, IL; University of Ulsan in Ulsan, South Korea; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Aldrich, CT; Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA; Seattle Art Museum’s SAM Gallery in Seattle, WA; Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA; Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, WA; Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL; Jones Center for Contemporary Art in Austin, TX; Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, WA; Oregon Contemporary in Portland, OR. His work has been featured in publications such as Sculpture, New American Paintings, NY Arts Magazine, Drain Magazine, Oregon ArtsWatch, The Seattle Times, and The Oregonian.

Geschke has received honors and awards from the Seattle Art Museum (Betty Bowen PONCHO Special Recognition Award - 1998); Oregon Arts Commission (Individual Artist Fellowship – 2012 and 2020, Career Opportunity Grant – 2011 and 2018)); Ford Family Foundation (Ford Family Foundation Residency for Oregon Artists at Djerassi – 2013, Career Opportunity Grant 2018); Seattle Arts Commission (Seattle Artists Award – 1996); Regional Arts and Culture Council (Project Grant – 2015, Professional Development Grant – 2011 and 2014); Jerome Foundation (Travel and Study Grant to China – 2002); College Art Association (Professional Development Honorable Mention Award – 2000; Pilchuck Glass School (PONCHO Scholarship – 1999); among others. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Sculpture Space Inc.; Vermont Studio Center; and Pratt Fine Arts Center. 

Geschke received his M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Rinehart School of Sculpture and a B.F.A. from Cornish College of the Arts. He is a Professor of Art and coordinator of the sculpture area in the Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design at Portland State University in Portland, OR. Prior to Portland State, he taught at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and California State University, Long Beach.

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