{"id":2918,"date":"2014-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/erik-strom\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:00:49","slug":"erik-strom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/erik-strom\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Strom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><em>Pondering Men<\/em>, 2001<\/h3>\n<h5>Oil on Canvas<\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]At the age of twelve, Erik Str\u00f6m discovered his talent for art. His artistic skill further developed in high school, when his family moved from New Jersey to North Carolina. In 1996, he graduated with a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Str\u00f6m finds that communicating emotion presents a significant challenge in creating art. In\u00a0<strong>Pondering Men<\/strong>, he uses bold brush strokes and a muted color palette to capture a moment of contemplation. Str\u00f6m\u2019s exploration of sentiment, subject matter and technique are present in his other works. Before his studies at UNCG, Str\u00f6m won First Place for his sculpture at the Greensboro Arts Council Annual Competition in 1991. He was also awarded First Place in Visual Art through the Sedgefield Women\u2019s Club the same year. Later exhibitions in various Greensboro locations include showings at the Penn House (Chinquapenn Plantation), Artstock \u201999, and the Vera Gallery.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-662c67d15e30c\" data-id=\"662c67d15e30c\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\" data-type=\"the7_shortcodes-inline-css\">#default-btn-50623a3f689e2cd33f385ad64a5696f4.ico-right-side > i {\n  margin-right: 0px;\n  margin-left: 8px;\n}\n#default-btn-50623a3f689e2cd33f385ad64a5696f4 > i {\n  margin-right: 8px;\n}\n<\/style><a href=\"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/weaver-uncg-art-collection\/\" class=\"default-btn-shortcode dt-btn dt-btn-s link-hover-off btn-inline-left \" id=\"default-btn-50623a3f689e2cd33f385ad64a5696f4\"><span>Art Collection Home<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-662c67d15e4cc\" data-id=\"662c67d15e4cc\" data-height=\"30\" data-height-mobile=\"30\" data-height-tab=\"30\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[vc_single_image image=&#8221;2919&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] Pondering Men, 2001 Oil on Canvas [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]At the age of twelve, Erik Str\u00f6m discovered his talent for art. His artistic skill further developed in high school, when his family moved from New Jersey to North Carolina. In 1996, he graduated with a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaverfoundation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}