Eric Rottcher is a mixed media collage artist living and working in Silver Spring, Maryland. Raised in the rural town of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Rottcher developed his artistic voice outside the traditional gallery system—shaped by distance, disruption, and a deep engagement with philosophical inquiry. He earned a BA in Art from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in 2011, where he concentrated in Aesthetics, a foundation that continues to inform his practice.
Influenced by Absurdist and Existentialist thought, his visual language blends Neo-Expressionism, Pop Surrealism, Lowbrow, and Dadaist impulses. Recurring motifs—party hats, Greek busts, birds, wilted flowers, anatomical fragments—create a visual lexicon that feels at once symbolic and slippery, hinting at meaning without fully surrendering to it.
Rottcher works with collage, décollage, paint, and found materials to create pieces that embrace layering, erasure, and visible revision. He resists clean resolutions and favors emotional disruption, letting the raw process remain visible on the surface. His compositions are not built for answers, but for agitation—for that uncertain space between celebration and collapse.
His work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions and is held in private collections across the U.S. and abroad. His current series, After Party, explores the residue of excess and disillusionment—what’s left behind when the performance ends and the silence creeps back in
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