Erik Daniel White was born in Salt Lake City, UT in 1988. He received a B.S. in Art Practices from Portland State University. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Erik is currently painting still lifes made from abstract forms that were gesturally made and manipulated. He is concerned with creating interesting compositions with color and form; to do so, he uses different phone apps to build up a dynamic image before and during the process of painting and it is this dichotomy between the material world and electronic that his paintings are currently investigating.