Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Eric Eickmann

Gazing at Eric Eickmann’s beautifully composed acrylic paintings of women, often faceless and in various states of undress, a line from his artist-statement poem comes to mind: “the ugly thought and the righteous thought all in one.” Eickmann’s colorful works are at once intriguing and disturbing, lovely and aggressive. His show “Drive By Love,” at Burlington’s Speaking Volumes, October 5 through November 28, features images of women, some in compromising positions. In the painting “Drive By Love” (pictured), a naked lady reclines suggestively in the foreground, her face flushed, while a car collides with a tree behind her. Dangerous curves, indeed.