Eric Hibit

Eric Hibit (born in Rochester, NY) is a visual artist based in New York City. He has exhibited at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Deanna Evans Projects, One River School of Art + Design, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, TV Projects, Hexum Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Wege Center for the Arts at Maharishi University, The University of Vermont, and elsewhere. His work has been covered in The New York Times, New York Post, Seven Days Vermont, and Winston-Salem Journal. Artist residencies include Terra Foundation, Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts, and Green Olives Arts in Tétouan, Morocco. Publications include Dear Hollywood Writers, with poet Geoffrey Young; Paintings and Fables, with writer Wayne Koestenbaum; and Color Theory for Dummies, published by Wiley. He is currently Codirector of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery based in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the Corcoran College of Art & Design (B.F.A.) and Yale University School of Art (M.F.A.).

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Water-based painting in acrylic and ink
  • Color theory
  • Sculptural painting
  • Collage

Classes (Selected)

  • ART 2201 Language of PaintingStudies the language of painting through color, form, materials, and techniques. Aspects of traditional and modern pictorial composition are studied including proportion, space, and color theory through the representation of a variety of subjects.
  • ART 3299 Painting DeconstructedTopics TBA.

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • The Spontaneous Garden, solo exhibition at Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT (2023)
  • Art on Paper: The 46th Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (2021)
  • Prism in the Window, solo exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY (2021)

Publications (Selected)

  • Hibit, Eric. Color Theory for Dummies, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2022

Selected Work

  • Large flower blossoms in gradient shades of purple, teal, and lime green, connected by swirling stems, with numerous small dots covering the surface of each blossom.

    Nasturtiums with Purple (2023), acrylic on canvas over panel, 48" x 60". image / provided

  • A woodland scene with three large mushrooms at the center. The left is a conical red mushroom, the center is a round green mushroom with large purple and green circles on it, the right is a conical purple mushroom. Several other small mushrooms, a snail, and the roots of a tree make up the surroundings, with a rainbow sky and yellow tree in the background.

    Beautiful Mushrooms (2022), acrylic on canvas over panel, 30" x 24". image / provided

  • A blue cornucopia horn filled with water like a vase, with three spherical pink flowers on thin green stems rising out of it. A few leaves are falling from the flowers, and a bent tree and numerous circles of varying sizes make up the background.

    Horn of Flowers (2023), acrylic on canvas over panel, 48" x 40". image / provided

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