Erick Mota

Biography
Erick Mota is a Venezuelan-American fine artist born and raised in New York City. With disciplinary inspirations ranging from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Paul Cezanne, Erick’s work – an amalgam of modernism, surrealism, and the abstract – not only reflects the world around him but the inner workings of those inhibiting that world; their most wicked demons and noble aspirations. Erick is both an astute student of life and disciplined at his core, holding a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a master’s degree in Organizational/Industrial psychology, and is currently a PhD candidate in Organizational Leadership. As a longtime student of psychology, Erick loves to integrate psychological aspects to create paintings that are visually appealing and come with many interpretations, using an oil medium.
Artist Statement

I have consistently enjoyed working mainly with oil paints because of the freedom and flow that the medium allows. My work encapsulates psychological aspects of human tendencies, the natural world, and feelings and emotions expressed in a constant search for the best way to interpret the world in which we live. In trying to capture universal human themes such as love, death, joy, humour, spirituality, fear, birth, and the variabilities of experiences entailing altered states of consciousness or grips on reality.

Country United States

Website Erickmotaart.com