Eric Daigh

Education

University of Montana.

Career

His artwork displays a strong sense of play and uses a variety of unorthodox and unconventional everyday life materials including pushpins and Post-lieutenant notes. Eric Daigh was born in Orange, California and is a graduate of the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana. He is known for his large-scale creative use of pushpins in portraits and multimedia artwork.

His artwork combines the use of photography, graphic design and imagination to create a photographic mosaic art piece.

His inspiration comes from artist Chuck Close, an American painter and photographer known for his photorealistic massive-scale portraits. Portrait photographer Martin Schoeller also inspired Daigh.

2010 Art Chicago – Carl Hammer Gallery – Chicago 2009 Guinness World Records – “Largest Pushpin Mosaic” 2009 Ripley"s Believe lieutenant or Not! – Permanent Museum Collection 2008 Right Brain Brewery – Traverse City, Michigan 2007 Inside Out Gallery – Traverse City, Michigan.

Achievements

• 2009 third place winner of ArtPrize. Daigh’s work was exhibited at the Old Federal Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The 2009 Inaugural ArtPrize competition drew more than 1,200 artists who exhibited their work throughout Grand Rapids, Michigan. The public used modern networking technology to vote on an artist’s work. 2009 Communication Arts (magazine) Illustration Annual Winner.