Eric Oglander

KDR is pleased to present a solo booth of new works by Eric Oglander at Booth B20 at NADA New York. The fair is located on the 3rd floor and on view from May 13-17. If you are in NYC this week, we hope to see you at the fair! #KDR212 #ericoglander @newartdealers 🎈 Driven by experimentation and craft, Eric Oglander creates intimately scaled minimalist sculptures that explore subtle optical and scientific phenomena. Using everyday materials like string, plywood, branches, metal, and found objects that unify and neutralize, rendering the newly formed objects into a coherent whole thought. The resulting works each possess an airiness and delicate quality. While most of his sculptures exist purely for their aesthetic value, some are capable of throwing small projectiles. The Trebuchets and Catapults pieces stem from Eric’s childhood fascination with medieval siege engines discovered while watching the History Channel. They now embody his mature artistic practice, balancing play, physics, and visual appeal through a lens of enduring childlike wonder. Oglander’s sculptures channel a contemporary sensibility while clearly looking back to the innovations of Giacometti, Calder, and Duchamp, merging their experimental approaches to form, movement, and concept into his own distinctive practice.

KDR is thrilled to present a solo booth of new works by Eric Oglander at NADA New York at the The Starrett-Lehigh Building, May 13–17, Booth B20. For inquiries please email [email protected] or DM us! @ericoglander #ericoglander #tinybutmighty @newartdealers 
Guided by experimentation and craftsmanship, Eric Oglander crafts intimately scaled minimalist sculptures that delve into subtle optical and certain scientific phenomena. Using everyday materials like string, plywood, branches, metal, and found objects that unify and neutralize, rendering the newly formed objects into a coherent whole thought. The resulting works each possess an airiness and delicate quality. The Trebuchets and Catapults stem from Eric’s childhood fascination with medieval siege engines discovered while watching the History Channel. They embody his artistic practice, balancing play, physics, and visual appeal through a lens of enduring childlike wonder.
 Oglander’s sculptures channel a contemporary sensibility while remaining in clear conversation with the experimental legacies of Giacometti, Calder, and Duchamp, absorbing their approaches to form, movement, and concept into a practice that is entirely his own.

ERIC OGLANDER Eric Oglander is a self-taught sculptor whose practice is informed formally, structurally, and materially by his multifarious interests. Growing up fishing and hunting for arrowheads in the woods outside Nashville, his work stems from a relationship with collecting, found objects, and primitive skill sets with a focus on minimal forms.   An avid collector of folk art, Oglander is attracted to and even romanticizes objects crafted without the explicit intention of viewership; objects that weren’t made to be consumed as artworks. His sculptural practice, often material experiments made within imagined parameters, alludes to these moments forged of necessity and happenstance. While shining a light on the whimsical nature in found, and often overlooked, objects, Oglander’s work explores the intersection between the freedom of play and the intentionality of function. Snapped on a Toy Block, 2026 Toy block, bamboo skewer, fabric from dress shirt, acrylic paint 13.6 x 10 x 3.8 cm Informed by Growth, 2026 Pine, acrylic paint 15 x 8 x 3 cm Thank you, Abraham, 2026 Pine, fabric from dress shirt, beeswax, penny 15 x 6 x 2.5 cm Three sides make a loop, 2026 Toy block, split ash from antique chair, fabric from dress shirt, tooth pick, nails 19 x 10 x 3.5 cm #contemporaryart #vienna #communegallery #painting #ericoglander

Install shot from Fragment III @communegallery Pictured here with David Rappeneau.

Made a new little rocking trebuchet. The last one was shipped to a gallery and FedEx left it outside. Someone stole it which was a drag but I also liked the idea of someone opening the box and finding a weird trebuchet inside.

Paper, paper, paper Ruled paper, hornet’s nest, bristol paper, plywood, poplar 5” x 3” x 2.75”

A very big thank you @ericoglander !!! 8,800 miles is a long way to go, to help blow out a few candles... How cool is that?! Susan first met Eric in 2023, at the opening of ‘Playdate’ (a wonderful paired show featuring works by @susantekahurangiking and @philip_emde ) at @ruttkowski68 , New York. A couple of days later we had the privilege of catching up with Eric again - at his studio as well as @tihngs , his outlandishly awesome antique shop in Queens. Fast forward a couple of years.... In 2025 Susan and Eric’s works came together in, “By Golly”, an incredibly fascinating and masterful two-person exhibition at @institute193 , Kentucky Fast forward a few months... Thank you Eric! Thanks for coming all the way to New Zealand – to spend time with Susan and her works. Over the past few years she’s loved looking closely at your wonderful creations (and pets) online. Big Thanks for exhibiting with Susan last year – and for coming all this way! #susantekahurangiking #ericoglander

Wanted to share my collection of late 19th and early 20th century photos that were developed using glass plate negatives that had broken and sometimes shattered.

These jars have been sealed for over two years now. There are still snails keeping the glass clean and tons of microfauna swimming around. The plants stay happy because they’re fertilized by the waste of the tiny creatures inside. I showed these @1969gallery two years ago and made them three months before the show. The water, plants, branches and critters came from ponds, lakes and creeks from New York and Florida as well as some stuff from my aquariums. The last slide shows a print out that was available at the gallery. It served as a sort of guide if someone purchased one of the jars. None sold but I liked the idea of selling a little world and passing along the responsibility. I’m excited to see how these change over the years. Thanks to @lolakramer for helping to show them. (If you scroll down my page you’ll see them when they were first made).