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Eric Petersen Illustration

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About

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I am an artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.

My style is influenced by instructional graphics, video games and the look of vintage comics of the 1940s. I draw uniform lines on a computer to strip away some of the human element and expressive quality seen in non-digital work. I use perspective and unnatural colors to set up a voyeuristic feeling and create an unsettling mood. I am interested in the combination of a purely functional illustration style with an emotional scene.

My subject matter typically consists of people and simple environments. I aim to create a sense of ambiguity and allow the viewer to imagine their own narrative.

Client list:
Apple, Baffler, Barnard College, Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, Chronicle of Higher Education, Contagious, DB Mobil, Fortune, GQ France, Guardian, Hohe Luft magazine, Johns Hopkins University, L’actualite, Les Echos, Longreads, M Le magazine du Monde, MIT Technology Review, Medium, NEO.LIFE, Neon, New Republic, New York Times, Politico, Quanta, Québec Science, Scientific American, Télérama, Texas Monthly, Verge, Victory Journal, Washington Post, Wired

Awards:
2019 3×3 International Illustration Award Show No.16; Editorial Series for DB Mobil Magazin ‘Der Verfolger’ (The Chaser)
2019 Communication Arts 2019 Illustration Annual; Editorial Series for DB Mobil Magazin ‘Der Verfolger’ (The Chaser)
2018 3×3 International Illustration Award Show No.15; Editorial Series for Scientific American ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2017′
2018 Society of Illustrators 60; Editorial Series for Scientific American ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2017′
2017 SND38: Award of Excellence – POLITICO Europe; ‘Welcome to Agadez’ – News Design [Pages] Cover Story
2017 SND38: Award of Excellence – The Chronicle Review; ‘Free Expression in Peril’ – Illustration Opinion/Color
2017 Society of Illustrators 59; Editorial Series for The Verge ‘The Secret Rules of the Internet’

Published in:
Les Echos Week-End, 4 October 2019
Johns Hopkins Magazine, 16 September 2019
The Guardian Weekend Magazine, 19 July 2019
The Washington Post Magazine Table of Contents, 30 June 2019
Longreads, 12 June 2019
Les Echos Week-End, 5 April 2019
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2 April 2019
The Washington Post Magazine Table of Contents, 31 March 2019
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 28 March 2019
WIRED, 29 January 2019
The Washington Post Magazine Table of Contents, 20 January 2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 07 January 2019
Medium Magazine, 2069 Collection, 4 January 2019
DB Mobil Magazin, 28 December 2018
Longreads, 16 December 2018
The Baffler, 29 November 2018
ShortList Magazine, 26 November 2018
Quanta Magazine, 12 November 2018
The Washington Post Magazine Table of Contents, 4 November 2018
GQ France – “Connected Watches: traditional or digital?”, November 2018
M Le magazine du Monde, 13 October 2018
GQ France/WIRED – “Les Penseurs Qui Taquinent La Tech”, September 2018
Quanta Magazine, 13 August 2018
Politico Europe, 19 July 2018
Texas Monthly, March 2018
Les Echos Week-End, 19 January 2018
Télérama, 17 January 2018
Québec Science, 04 January 2018
Les Echos Week-End, 18 November 2017
Scientific American – “Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2017″ cover story, 14 November 2017
Apple, 10 November 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education – “Innovators” special report, 24 October 2017
GQ France – “Is time travel for tomorrow?”, 17 October 2017
L’actualité, 13 October 2017
NEON – “This does not happen to us. Or?”, 02 October 2017
GQ France – “Awake Dating, the Tinder for Paranoids”, 13 September 2017
The Verge – “Searching for help”, 7 September 2017
The Boston Globe, 01 September 2017
Québec Science, September 2017
M Le magazine du Monde, 16 July 2017
NEO.LIFE, 6 July 2017
The Verge – “One Of Us”, 16 May 2017
The Verge – “Free Chelsea”, 16 May 2017
The Washington Post, 23 April 2017
M Le magazine du Monde, 22 April 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 03 March 2017
The Guardian Review Cover, 25 February 2017
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 08 January 2017
Politico Europe, 13 October 2016
M Le magazine du Monde, 23 September 2016
Victory Journal, 03 August 2016
The Guardian Weekend magazine, 29 July 2016
The Guardian Weekend magazine, 28 May 2016
Barnard Magazine, Spring 2016
The Boston Globe, 06 May 2016
MIT Technology Review, 04 May 2016
The Verge, 13 April 2016
The Guardian Review Cover, 02 April 2016
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 February 2016
M Le magazine du Monde, 20 February 2016
The Guardian Weekend magazine, 16 January 2016
M Le magazine du Monde, 12 December 2015
Contagious, Issue 45, December 2015
The New Republic, November 2015 issue
L’actualité, 09 September 2015
The Guardian Weekend magazine short story special 2015, 26 July 2015
L’actualité, 29 May 2015
Fortune Magazine, 31 March 2015
The Guardian Review Cover, 28 March 2015
BuzzFeed News, 08 February 2015
The New York Times Sunday Review, 03 January 2015
Hohe Luft Magazine, Issue 4, 2014
In Parentheses Magazine, Issue 4 Volume 2, Spring 2014
Barnard Magazine, Fall 2013

Featured on:
Workbook
Open Minded
VICE’s arts channel The Creators Project
iGNANT
We And The Color
It’s Nice That – 1
It’s Nice That – 2
Hi-Fructose
Juxtapoz – 1
Juxtapoz – 2
Illustration Age
designboom
Applied Arts
Creative Boom
Evil Tender
The re:art
Impose Magazine
Booooooom
Upper Playground
Design Is Kinky
OSSO Magazine
Redbubble

2 Person Exhibitions:
2015 Night and Day; Campfire Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions:
2018 Illustrators 60 Opening Reception: Part Two: Book and Editorial Categories; Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
2017 Illustrators 59: Book and Editorial Exhibition; Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
2015 In Reference; Evil Tender presents @ Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Death Blossom; Thumbprint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2014 Daft Punk Deux; Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Gauntlet Canvas Collection; Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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