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. The resulting works each possess an airiness and delicate quality. While most of his sculptures exist purely for their aesthetic value, some are capable of throwing 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. 

Eric Oglander was born in 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee, and currently lives and works in Queens, New York. He studied at London Guildhall University (BA, 2002) and the University of Brighton (MA, 2006), and later completed the Turps Studio Programme in London in 2015. 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; Institute 193, Lexington,