Eric Rugers

Eric Rugers (Melbourne, 1970) is a hybrid abstract artist working between painting and photography. His images begin in layered painted surfaces, photographed in extreme close-up and translated into tactile giclée prints where colour, light and form shift into presence.

With over thirty years in illustration and design, Rugers brings a sharp sense of composition, rhythm and chromatic balance. In 2024 and 2025, his work entered the MA-g Museum collection. Curator Andréa Da Palma (Galerie Perrotin) noted his “striking command of saturation and luminous tonal shifts.”

Working within Perceptualism, he creates images that resist narration and invite sustained looking.

Influenced by Turner, Rothko and Richter, as well as the Japanese aesthetics of yūgen and ma., his work rewards slow looking, reveals new nuances over time, and sustains attention beyond the first glance.

Beyond the visible — to what is truly felt.