ERIC OGLANDER
NADA NY, 12TH EDITION
KDR | B.20

This year’s booth frames Oglander’s work as an exploration of subtle systems—sculptures that appear minimal at first glance, yet unfold into delicate studies of balance, perception, and material relationships that exist as much in thought as in physical form.

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. Each resulting work possesses an airiness and a delicate quality. While most of his sculptures exist purely for their aesthetic value, some can launch small projectiles. These 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 Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson, merging their experimental approaches to form, movement, and concept into his own distinctive practice.

Eric Oglander was born in 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee, and currently lives and works in Queens, New York. He has presented solo exhibitions, including a solo booth with KDR at NADA New York (2026), as well as presentations at Bernheim Gallery, London; Swivel Gallery, Saugerties, NY; Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York; and Institute 193, Lexington. His work has been covered by major publications such as Vogue, ARTnews, and The New York Times. Notably, Oglander’s work has recently been shown in group exhibitions at Sharp Projects, Copenhagen; Subtitled Gallery, New York; Tiwa Select, New York; Winter Street Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard; and Tiwa Select, New York.