Eric Rottcher is a mixed media collage artist living and working from Silver Spring, MD. Growing up in the small, rural town of Waynesboro, PA, Eric came of age far from any traditional art scene—a distance that helped shape the raw, unpolished vision he brings to his mixed media collage work.
Eric earned a BA in Art from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in 2011, where he concentrated in Aesthetics—a branch of philosophy concerned with beauty, perception, and artistic experience. This philosophical foundation continues to inform his practice, which draws heavily from Absurdist and Existentialist thought. Embracing a kind of “anti-aesthetic,” Eric creates mixed media collages that navigate the tension between memory and confusion, secrecy and honesty, humor and heartbreak. And his personal history—addiction, grief, and his mother’s near-fatal aneurysm—forms the emotional core of his work.
Self-described as a “lowbrow fine artist,” Eric gravitates toward imagery that is, at times, surreal, discarded, and emotionally loaded—party hats, wilted flowers, teeth and eyeballs arranged like blossoms. He prioritizes process over perfection, favoring irreverence and emotional roughness over clean resolution and traditional pulchritudes.
Eric Rottcher’s work has been nationally exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and is held in private collections across the U.S. and abroad.
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