Ernest Carl Fackler
Artist Statement
My work is concerned with our natural world; dreamed, idyllic, simplistic, plastic, and decorative in its dynamism. Read as a short story told in a voice of spatial experiments, motif, and natural forms. The Woodcut's tactile nature and history, mythology, the human figure, and the nature of Michigan inform and inspire my printwork and paintings.
Ernest Carl Fackler
August 2024.
Mediums
Painting
Printmaking
EDUCATION:
Sculpture. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois 2000.
Graphic Design. William D. Ford Technical Center. Westland, Michigan 2000-2001.
B.F.A. work. College For Creative Studies. Detroit, Michigan 2001-02.
B.F.A. In Painting and Drawing, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 2006.
Teaching Certification in Visual Arts. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 2011.
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
"Public Art Program," The Hawk, Farmington Hills, MI. 2023-25.
"Emergence," KickstART Farmington, Farmington, MI. 2021.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
"Woodcuts/Woodlands," Brewery Faisan, Detroit, MI 2024.
"Trees/Water/Light: Woodcuts and Watercolors," Farmington City Hall, Farmington, MI 2024
"Ernest Carl Fackler: Woodcuts," Ferndale Public Library, Ferndale, MI 2024
"Ernest Carl Fackler: Featured Artist," Detroit Artist's Market, Detroit, MI 2022.
“ECF: Woodcuts and Paintings,” Lily's Seafood, Royal Oak, MI
2017.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
"The Mitten's Surface," KickstArt Gallery, Farmington, MI 2025.
"Collecting At The Collective," Carr Center, Detroit, MI 2024.
"Water. Artists and H2O," KickstArt Farmington, Farmington, MI. 2024.
“Everything Comes Clean in the End,” Annex Gallery, 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI. 2018
“Works of Fackler, Mayer, and Premeux.” Lily's, Royal Oak, MI. 2014-15.
AWARDS:
3rd Place: Best in Show - Ann Arbor State Street Art Fair - 2023
Best in Show/Best 2-D Art - Saginaw Art Fair - 2024
2010 - present
2010 - present