Oil On Canvas Abstract Painting By Erik Sandberg-Diment

Artist History: Born on January 29, 1940 in Stockholm, Sweden, he moved to Newark NJ when he was ten. After attending the College of Wooster Ohio and graduating with a degree in Psychology, he moved with his wife Susan to New York City with the hope of becoming a writer. Never letting a fear of failure stop him he ceaselessly pursued his goal; over 50 rejection slips from newspapers, magazines and publishers papered the walls of the one room apartment before he finally published for the first time. In 1975 he moved to Hampton, CT with his wife and children. A writer, he was never found without a piece of narrow-lined yellow paper and a pen for the thoughts and ideas that constantly erupted from his mind and eventually found their way into countless books and articles as well as into myriads of letters and emails to family and friends. He wrote under several pseudonyms, including Richard W. Langer and Thomas Tilling, publishing many books in addition to being a long-standing columnist at the New York Times. An artist, his paintings are a true representation of his spirt; large, bold, vibrant, energetic and sometimes chaotic and certainly in their later years never square or rectangle. He didn't like boxes and rebelled against the conventional dimensions of what art "should be". Trapezoids, squiggles, triangles; searching out shapes that would not confine the picture.

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