Eric D. Charlton is an American artist originally from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Western Pennsylvania, who now lives and works in Jackson, Mississippi. Charlton’s work explores the desire for meaning and the lack of human understanding on a cosmic scale to the minutiae of the everyday. Charlton embraces an open studio practice that centers around a broad definition of objecthood and the absurd acts of humans trying to make sense of the world. Charlton earned his MFA at Syracuse University and has exhibited internationally, including CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea, Lauren Rogers Art Museum, Laurel, Mississippi, and Das Giftraum, Berlin, Germany. Charlton is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
