The Weight of Existing – Original Acrylic Painting by Erin McGrath Rieke
About this Artwork
The Weight of Existing is an original acrylic painting created in 2018 as part of my ongoing series, Turbulence Behind Tranquility. Painted in black with quick brushwork on archival paper, the piece explores the invisible burden of living with depression and burden of existing.
Reduced to its most essential forms, the figure appears suspended between presence and disappearance. Areas of the body emerge while others dissolve into the surrounding white space. When created i was reflecting on emotional exhaustion, isolation, and my loss of self.
The Weight of Existing invites viewers into its meditation on the unseen labor of survival and a reminder that simply continuing can be an extraordinary act of courage.
Artwork Details
Artist: Erin McGrath Rieke
Title: The Weight of Existing
Year Created: 2018
Medium: Acrylic on Archival Paper
Image Size: Approximately 5 × 7 in
Presentation: Professionally matted in archival mat, ready for framing
Style: Contemporary Abstract Expressionism
Subject: Depression, mental health, emotional resilience, psychological abstraction
Series: The Turbulence Behind Tranquility
Original Artwork: One-of-a-kind
Frame: 11×14
Additional Information
The Weight of Existing is part of Turbulence Behind Tranquility, a project exploring the lived experience of mental illness, trauma, recovery, and resilience through abstraction and intuitive mark making. Each painting creates space for reflection and conversation about experiences that often remain unseen.
Collecting Original Artwork
My original paintings examine mental health, identity, healing, and the emotional landscapes that shape our lives through expressive abstraction and intuitive process. Every work is created entirely by hand as a one-of-a-kind original.
Collectors drawn to contemporary abstract art, expressive figurative painting, psychological abstraction, and artwork exploring resilience and the human condition may also connect with other works from The Turbulence Behind Tranquility series by Erin McGrath Rieke.
The Weight of Existing – Original Acrylic Painting by Erin McGrath Rieke
About this Artwork
The Weight of Existing is an original acrylic painting created in 2018 as part of my ongoing series, Turbulence Behind Tranquility. Painted in black with quick brushwork on archival paper, the piece explores the invisible burden of living with depression and burden of existing.
Reduced to its most essential forms, the figure appears suspended between presence and disappearance. Areas of the body emerge while others dissolve into the surrounding white space. When created i was reflecting on emotional exhaustion, isolation, and my loss of self.
The Weight of Existing invites viewers into its meditation on the unseen labor of survival and a reminder that simply continuing can be an extraordinary act of courage.
Artwork Details
Artist: Erin McGrath Rieke
Title: The Weight of Existing
Year Created: 2018
Medium: Acrylic on Archival Paper
Image Size: Approximately 5 × 7 in
Presentation: Professionally matted in archival mat, ready for framing
Style: Contemporary Abstract Expressionism
Subject: Depression, mental health, emotional resilience, psychological abstraction
Series: The Turbulence Behind Tranquility
Original Artwork: One-of-a-kind
Frame: 11×14
Additional Information
The Weight of Existing is part of Turbulence Behind Tranquility, a project exploring the lived experience of mental illness, trauma, recovery, and resilience through abstraction and intuitive mark making. Each painting creates space for reflection and conversation about experiences that often remain unseen.
Collecting Original Artwork
My original paintings examine mental health, identity, healing, and the emotional landscapes that shape our lives through expressive abstraction and intuitive process. Every work is created entirely by hand as a one-of-a-kind original.
Collectors drawn to contemporary abstract art, expressive figurative painting, psychological abstraction, and artwork exploring resilience and the human condition may also connect with other works from The Turbulence Behind Tranquility series by Erin McGrath Rieke.
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