Eric Nyquist is an American artist, illustrator, and educator working in Los Angeles. He began his career after graduating from Art Center College of Design, and his body of work includes drawings, paintings, and collages that merge the natural and the industrial. Together, the pieces become a timeline that represents Nyquist’s observations of the past, present and the future.
In an age of rapid image-making, Nyquist blends classical and modern methods to create contemporary results. From etching to serigraph, manual printing processes inform his drawings and digital processes—as he arranges layers and screens of color and texture into each piece.
A California native, Nyquist’s work is heavily informed by various regions across the state. Bright colors of the surf and skate industry evoke Los Angeles. A cross-section of natural and agricultural forms evoke his childhood home in the San Joaquin Valley. The galactic and trailblazing forms arise from the aerospace industry in Southern California. Throughout his work, he examines the natural world that is threatened, surviving, or extinct all over the state.
His work has been commissioned by institutions including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Netflix and The New York Times. He has also collaborated with fellow artists Beck, Doug Aitken, and Jeff Vandermeer. His illustrations have been published all over the world in magazines, books, and newspapers including the 70th Anniversary Penguin Orange Collection.
