About the Artist

Creating art is Eric Gordon's second career. For 50 years, he had a fulfilling career in advancing the science of organic chemistry, specializing in drug discovery. His artistic process developed over the last 10 years where he refined his own methods for creating visual art.   Eric finds a surprising number of scientific insights and concepts are transferable to his art practice. There is an overlap in the visual creativity required for innovative design of molecules, such as those found in medications, and in artistic endeavors. His two main interests, science, and art, coalesced to allow his unique viewpoint to be conveyed in visual form. Without knowing his background, viewers use terms such as "biological" or "cellular" to describe his work. Many pieces capture a moment of movement and fluidity that brings to mind the fundamentals of how the world works and what lies beneath that which is seen by the human eye. He is currently a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. He has no formal training in art and is self taught.

Eric though not formally trained in art is a 79-year-old emerging artist. He is not currently affiliated with a gallery but several years back, he gave a 40-piece invited exhibition at Stanford University. The current works he plans to exhibit are all created since the Stanford show.

Besides Stanford, Eric has made installations at a number of biotech companies in both the San Francisco and Cambridge MA, areas.

Revolution Medicines, Redwood City CA

5 AM Ventures, Menlo Park CA

Sutro pharmaceuticals, S. San Francisco CA

Spero Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge MA

Apnimed, Cambridge MA

 Lucy Packard Childrens Hospital

Eric enjoys his fulltime working in art and has 2 studios in his home in Palo Alto: one for painting and another for printing and framing. His main motivations in the work are the pleasure he gets out of it and to try and share this with others.