About the Artist

Eric Gordon was born in 1946 and grew up in New York City. Although not an artist, Eric’s mother was an art lover and took him many galleries and museums in Manhatten. He was always interested in the arts and spent time drawing, painting, and later stained glass and welded sculpture. His main training was in the sciences, but he took some art courses and continued to pursue art on the side.

Eric’ Uncle Julius was a scientist and encouraged Eric in this direction.  After college, Eric received a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and after did a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University. He lived outside of Princeton, N.J. until 1992, and then moved to Palo Alto where he currently resides.

Eric Gordon spent 50 years in the science of drug discovery.

It was his way of contributing to the health of humanity. He worked in a big pharmaceutical company, several biotech companies (3 of which he founded), for a decade as a venture capitalist, and several years associated with Stanford as an Adjunct Professor. In the course of his work, Eric wrote over 100 U.S. patents and over 100 scientific papers.

 He always approached his Scientific work from an artistic point of view. The last 10 years he has committed himself completely to creating artwork. Eric has an unusual (maybe unique) self-developed style in which he paints on a horizontal glass plate as a canvas. This allows for capturing kinetic opportunities not available in classical easel painting. Some of his work can be seen at website  ericmichaelgordon.org and ericmgordon.org. . More recently he has developed a novel approach he calls “Self-Assembly Art” which is the title of the first website. The work exists at the interface between art and science.

Eric though not formally trained in art is a 78-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

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.