Eric Cahan  Artist

NAME Eric Cahan   DATE Today   ASTROLOGICAL SIGN Aries   WEBSITE Eric Cahan   WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT STATE OF MIND? Certainty   WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST? At the moment I’m really feeling Dan Flavin,  Gerhard Richter and John McCracken   WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR AND FLOWER? purple and cherry blossoms   WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST OVERRATED VIRTUE? Patience   WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST FEAR? Heights and imprisonment   WHICH LIVING PERSON DO YOU MOST ADMIRE? Any persons trying to uplift mankind with light   WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE FICTIONAL HERO? The Little Prince   WHO ARE YOUR REAL-LIFE HEROES? James Turrell, Tom Knoles, big wave surfers   WHAT IS YOUR MOST TREASURED POSSESSION? Sight   WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF PERFECT HAPPINESS? Swimming in the ocean with one of my nieces somewhere warm   WHAT IS YOUR CHIEF CHARACTERISTIC? The inability to do as I’m told   WHAT IS THE TRAIT YOU MOST DEPLORE IN OTHERS? Greediness - self importance and smoking   WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE NAMES?  Tabitha, Lucinda and Amos   IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT YOURSELF, WHAT WOULD IT BE? The ability to sing in tune   WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE? In peace   WHAT IS THE QUALITY YOU MOST ADMIRE IN A MAN? Sense of humor   WHAT IS THE QUALITY YOU MOST ADMIRE IN A WOMAN? Self reliance   IF YOU WERE RE-INCARNATED AS A PERSON OR AN ANIMAL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? Jesus   WHO HAS BEEN THE GREATEST INFLUENCE ON YOU? My father, who would always take me to museums   WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOTTO?  That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

- Eric, photographed in front of an installation by Hugh Scott-Douglas at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, February 2013.