Utah native Marci Erspamer doesn’t believe in separating art and life. Her abstract paintings are precise and clean, yet emotionally wild, as if something is pulling at the seams, strictly contained by her brush. Erspamer is interested in human connection and empathy, and one sees this in her work; her subjects exude a frenetic energy from within their lines, a singular object, starkly alone on the canvas. Self-taught and drawing from her own life experiences, her work wants to resist categorization. Though, clearly, cubism and surrealism has affected Erspamer, hints of art nouveau and tribal design push the boundaries of their influence to an intriguing end.

Full of vibrant color and a dreamlike anxiety, her work is crisp yet visually boisterous. Erspamer began exhibiting her work in 2003. She is a full-time artist and currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia