Eric Manicke

Born and lived in the Cincinnati until age 8, with a Midwestern, creative extended family, Eric believes his strong work ethic and rustic, earthy style emerged from my childhood rearing. At age 3, he would paint at his easel for hours on end. At 6, he wrote and published a children’s book, “The Sock Problem.” His grandfather was an oil painter in Indiana, commissioned for large scale portraiture. He began his artistic training guided by internationally renowned ceramist Jin Yoshida, also an Olympic athlete.

Currently, a business major at the University of New Mexico, Eric plans to open a chain of gyms while still in his 20's. Besides artist pursuits, he is a competitive power-lifter/athlete. For Eric, past influences and interests materialize in clay.

Rustic and raw with a clear masculinity, his pottery and practical vessels materialize the relationship he feels for the natural world. With referent colors from river polished stones, granite cliffs of the Sandias, silty flowing waters of the Rio Grande—his work is strong, woodsy, textured, and moody. When you look or hold his glazed pottery, he hopes you feel the organic elements, see refined craftsmanship, and overall appreciate its truth and simplicity.