The Age of Obscurity – Original Figurative Mixed-Media Collector Painting by Erin McGrath Rieke
About This Artwork
The Age of Obscurity is a mixed-media painting created in 2024 through layers of paint, texture, repeated marks, and intuitive revision. A partially obscured figure appears within the composition, folded into an environment that seems to move both around and through the body.
The work considers what happens when clarity becomes difficult to sustain. Dense patterns and interrupted lines blur the boundaries between figure and surroundings, while flashes of red, yellow, blue, and green push against quieter passages of gray. The image shifts between exposure and concealment.
Rather than offering a fixed narrative, The Age of Obscurity occupies the uncertain space between knowing and not knowing. It reflects the way memory, identity, and perception can become fragmented under the pressure of experience.
Artwork Details
Artist: Erin McGrath Rieke
Title: The Age of Obscurity
Year Created: 2024
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Artwork Size: 30 W × 40 H × 3 D in
Style: Contemporary Abstract / Figurative Abstraction
Subject: Memory, identity, uncertainty, emotional interiority
Series: —
Original Artwork: One-of-a-kind
Frame: Not included
Original Collector Artwork
This is a singular, one-of-a-kind artwork created by Erin McGrath Rieke. The original painting will never be reproduced at its full 30 × 40-inch dimensions.
A signed certificate of authenticity documenting the title, year, medium, dimensions, and original status of the work is included with the purchase.
Additional Information
The painting developed without a predetermined image. Each layer responded to what came before it, allowing the figure and surrounding field to emerge gradually.
Viewed from a distance, the composition reads as a single emotional landscape. At closer range, the surface separates into marks, textures, and competing fragments. That movement between coherence and confusion is central to the work.
Collector Price
$4,400 with shipping included
The price reflects the painting’s one-of-a-kind collector status, substantial scale, mixed-media surface, and intuitive process of layered construction.
Shipping and Local Pickup
The listed price includes professional protective packing, handling, insurance, and standard ground or freight delivery from St. Louis to one address within the contiguous United States.
White-glove service, installation, unusual access requirements, or expedited transportation may require an additional charge arranged with the collector before shipment.
Complimentary local pickup is available in the St. Louis area by prior arrangement. Shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, and international destinations must be arranged and quoted separately.
Fine-Art Prints
Open-edition archival prints of The Age of Obscurity may be offered separately in dimensions smaller than the original painting. Prints are reproductions and do not include the original artwork’s certificate of authenticity.
The Age of Obscurity – Original Figurative Mixed-Media Collector Painting by Erin McGrath Rieke
About This Artwork
The Age of Obscurity is a mixed-media painting created in 2024 through layers of paint, texture, repeated marks, and intuitive revision. A partially obscured figure appears within the composition, folded into an environment that seems to move both around and through the body.
The work considers what happens when clarity becomes difficult to sustain. Dense patterns and interrupted lines blur the boundaries between figure and surroundings, while flashes of red, yellow, blue, and green push against quieter passages of gray. The image shifts between exposure and concealment.
Rather than offering a fixed narrative, The Age of Obscurity occupies the uncertain space between knowing and not knowing. It reflects the way memory, identity, and perception can become fragmented under the pressure of experience.
Artwork Details
Artist: Erin McGrath Rieke
Title: The Age of Obscurity
Year Created: 2024
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Artwork Size: 30 W × 40 H × 3 D in
Style: Contemporary Abstract / Figurative Abstraction
Subject: Memory, identity, uncertainty, emotional interiority
Series: —
Original Artwork: One-of-a-kind
Frame: Not included
Original Collector Artwork
This is a singular, one-of-a-kind artwork created by Erin McGrath Rieke. The original painting will never be reproduced at its full 30 × 40-inch dimensions.
A signed certificate of authenticity documenting the title, year, medium, dimensions, and original status of the work is included with the purchase.
Additional Information
The painting developed without a predetermined image. Each layer responded to what came before it, allowing the figure and surrounding field to emerge gradually.
Viewed from a distance, the composition reads as a single emotional landscape. At closer range, the surface separates into marks, textures, and competing fragments. That movement between coherence and confusion is central to the work.
Collector Price
$4,400 with shipping included
The price reflects the painting’s one-of-a-kind collector status, substantial scale, mixed-media surface, and intuitive process of layered construction.
Shipping and Local Pickup
The listed price includes professional protective packing, handling, insurance, and standard ground or freight delivery from St. Louis to one address within the contiguous United States.
White-glove service, installation, unusual access requirements, or expedited transportation may require an additional charge arranged with the collector before shipment.
Complimentary local pickup is available in the St. Louis area by prior arrangement. Shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, and international destinations must be arranged and quoted separately.
Fine-Art Prints
Open-edition archival prints of The Age of Obscurity may be offered separately in dimensions smaller than the original painting. Prints are reproductions and do not include the original artwork’s certificate of authenticity.
