Eric Cahan credits the inspiration for his photographs to color, nature, and memory.  Of influence to his artistic style are modern artists Mark Rothko and James Turrell in addition to the Light and Space movement of mid-60s California.  Oceans and sky are two of my favorite subjects in any art form.  Combine that with ingenuity and vision and, for the most part, it’s a sure thing.

Cahan uses as many as four different cameras ranging from 6 x 7 film to digital. Employing dozens of graduated filters traditionally used by filmmakers, his objective is to create a window into a time and a place, and to demonstrate how memories and colors shift and become abstract. Cahan produces chromium prints of each image numerous times until the result is seamless, free of banding or blemish. Beyond technical description, the picture evokes the presence of, and the artist’s reverence for, nature at its most sublime.   – Web Bio

He also does some pretty cool sculptures.  At first glance I thought, meh.  But after perusing through a few more I began to appreciate the effect he creates – one that reflects a transition of color similar to his photographs.  These three dimensional representations are designed to capture light and create the sensation of looking into the sky or the ocean.  Even cooler is the fact that he makes his sculptures out of the same polyester resins used to make surfboards and sailboards.  Check out the rest of his work here!

-Kathleen