Biography
Eric Bess was born and raised in Springfield, Ohio. In 2008, he received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing from Wittenberg University. He taught both privately and collegiately while still an undergraduate student. In 2016, Bess received his Master of Fine Art in Oil Painting from the Academy of Art University. Within a month after receiving his MFA degree, Bess was enrolled at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts to work toward a PhD in aesthetics.
Bess is greatly influenced by western traditional art methods used to express the spiritual content of the human story. He has traveled extensively throughout the eastern United States and western Europe absorbing the content and methods of western art subjects and practices. He uses representational drawing, figurative oil painting, and metal leaf to express his understanding of human being’s spiritual existence. He continues to show his work throughout the United States
Eric Bess was born and raised in Springfield, Ohio. In 2008, he received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing from Wittenberg University. He taught both privately and collegiately while still an undergraduate student. In 2016, Bess received his Master of Fine Art in Oil Painting from the Academy of Art University. Within a month after receiving his MFA degree, Bess was enrolled at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts to work toward a PhD in aesthetics.
Bess is greatly influenced by western traditional art methods used to express the spiritual content of the human story. He has traveled extensively throughout the eastern United States and western Europe absorbing the content and methods of western art subjects and practices. He uses representational drawing, figurative oil painting, and metal leaf to express his understanding of human being’s spiritual existence. He continues to show his work throughout the United States