Ernest Carl Fackler
Artist Statement
My work is concerned with our natural world, how it falls into dreams and is affected by dreamers. Idyllic, simplistic, or plastic, decorative in its dynamism. Short stories told in a voice of spatial experiments, motifs, and natural forms. When these three are melded together in a picture, they create a wholly new depiction of spatial relation, in which decoration, space, and the figure coalesce.
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Ernest Carl Fackler
July 2023.
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.
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JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
"Public Art Program," The Hawk, Farmington Hills, MI. 2023-25.
"Emergence," KickstART Farmington, Farmington, MI. 2021.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
"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.
“ECF: Woodcuts,” Lo and Behold, Hamtramck, MI. 2012-2013.
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
“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 Sate Street Art Fair - 2023
2010 - present
2010 - present