Eric Laverty
Eric Laverty is an artist and photographer from Detroit, MI USA. He completed his formal studies as a guest student of Gerhard Richter during the German painter's final years of tenure at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where fellow professors Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jan Dibbets, and Nam June Paik, along with Richter, became enduring influences on Laverty's art and creative perspective. Prior to his 5-year German sojourn in the early '90s, Laverty studied Photography under Jim Dow at SMFA - Boston. Prior to SMFA, as he pursued a BA at the University of Michigan, Laverty was inspired to think and communicate his ideas pictorially during a seminar with Michael Taussig (now at Columbia University), and motivated to re-consider a degree in Anthropology. He dedicated his final year on University of Michigan's North Campus immersed in an intensive Bauhaus-styled design and Fine Art curriculum before moving to Boston and SMFA. Throughout his studies, Laverty continued to master and apply his skills at the forefront of computer-generated graphic design, which he began training just after high school graduation. This not only sustained his academic studies but became the Eric Laverty lives and works in both Brooklyn and Detroit, extending his primary studio onto the streets of NYC where his almost daily peregrinations generate troves of experimental content. His photography, photo-collages and painting have been exhibited in Boston, Düsseldorf, New York, and Brussels and are in private collections in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
