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Eric Rugers

Netherlands

Credentials

  • Favorited by galleries
  • Featured in gallery curations
  • Works on commission
Eric Rugers (Melbourne, 1970) is a hybrid abstract artist working between painting and photography. His images originate in layered painted surfaces, captured in extreme close-up and translated into tactile giclée prints where color, 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 lens-based images that resist narration and invite sustained looking — remaining in the moment before meaning settles.

Influenced by J.M.W. Turner, Peter Doig, and Gerhard Richter, as well as the Japanese aesthetics of yūgen and ma, his work unfolds slowly, revealing new nuances over time and rewarding sustained attention.

Beyond the visible — before meaning settles.
Eric Rugers
Obscura
$1,160
Painter, Photographer, Digital Artist, Visual Artist