Born on Long Island, New York in 1980, Eric Svitic quickly established himself as one of Long Islands leading artists. Originally trained as an abstract expressionist, Svitic studied at Adelphi University and C.W. Post. Throughout those years he experimented with many different mediums including installation sculpture and video performance. Using these tools, Svitic creates conceptually fueled primal angst driven installations. His works play on man's fear of existence contrasting societies information overload and attention deficit disorder.  He has been published in Art Forum, The New York Gallery Guide, and has received many honors including a write-up by Ed Mcormick of Gallery and Studio's Magazine. He is an international artist having shown in London, Italy, and Croatia as well as all over Long Island and New York City. At the young age of 26, Svitic proves that he is a strong new force in the New York art scene.

If one may begin with yet another music analog, the tactile oils of Eric Svitic can be compared to the solos of John Coltrane for their sonorous, somber, tonalities and brooding beauty. Svitic's rugged, earthy faces, sometimes scored with wound-like lines or graphic elements resembling roughly scrawled graffiti, resonate in the viewers' subconscious, often evoking a sense of existential angst.

“Conformity and acceptance versus primal instinct and violence are all concepts that place human beings in a constant state of dementia and derangement,” Svitic asserts in an artist statement, and he makes those tensions physically palpable in the pigments, as well as in the elegant funkiness of his forms. The sense of psychological unrest made manifest in material presence in explicit in both the title and the mood of the painting Svitic calls “The Internal Vortex.”