Erik Saxon

Erik Saxon (born 1941)[1] is an American visual artist, painter, and printmaker based in New York, whose work is associated with contemporary abstraction.

In addition to his career as an artist, Saxon has also written on abstract art and has been a contributing author to Artforum.

[4]By the late 1970s, Saxon had joined the Radical Painting Group, an artist collective founded by Marcia Hafif and Olivier Mosset in New York.

[5][6] Other group members included Günter Umberg, Joseph Marioni, Phil Sims, Dale Henry, Doug Sanderson, Susanna Tanger, Jerry Zeniuk, and Frederic Matys Thursz.

[7] According to the critic Sarah Schmerler, who suggested similarities between Minimalism and Saxon's work, the artist is not in favor of following "strict chronology" and each of his paintings is distinguished by its own "perceptual logic" and intensive labor, prompting in turn a "long and deep contemplation" from the spectator.