About

Eric Wiegand enjoyed making art and writing fiction early on, gravitating toward drawing and learning to recreate images by eye at a young age. His earliest influences weren’t museum walls but lowbrow staples—Garbage Pail Kids, Cracked, MAD, and cartoonists like Matt Groening—stuff that was loud, irreverent, and slightly wrong in the best way.

His work lives in the tension between two impulses: the desire to be a traditional painter making gallery-worthy work, and the urge to push against that tradition with lowbrow, punk-leaning paintings rooted in abstract folk and western grit. The result is work that’s technically grounded but openly questions taste, norms, and where “serious” art is supposed to live.

Art runs in the family. His sister, Adrienne Williamson, is a lifelong artist by trade, while Wiegand took a more conventional 9-to-5 path for years before returning seriously to his practice over the last five to six years. In 2026, he returns to school at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to sharpen technique, take risks, and keep pushing the work somewhere uncomfortable.