Tr Ericsson: Crackle & Drag

This is the first monograph dedicated to contemporary artist TR Ericsson (b. 1972), who with conceptual rigor and emotional directness uses the archives chronicling his familyandrsquo;s painful past to explore the healing powers of commemoration and memory. He grapples with these archival materialsandrsquo; power to define both the past and future, even as they vanish slowly with time. In a poignant family chronology in text and images, Ericsson includes many photographs of his motherandmdash;whose suicide at age 57 was a traumatic turning point in his life and careerandmdash;along with related photographs, documents, writings, film stills, and artifacts dating back to the 1930s. Two scholarly essays set Ericssonandrsquo;s work into its artistic and broader cultural context. The complete publication is both a guide to the artistandrsquo;s work and an inspired chronicle of several generations of a Midwestern family, evoking universal themes of love and loss.

The first monograph on TR Ericsson, this publication illustrates the poignant narratives of love, loss, and resolution explored in the artistandrsquo;s works based on family artifacts and photographs.

TR Ericsson is a contemporary artist whose work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and others.and#160;Arnaud Gerspacherand#160;is a doctoral candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.and#160;Barbara Tannenbaumand#160;is curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art.