Eric Amling

Poet, designer, and visual artist Eric Amling was born in Brooklyn, New York. His first collection of poetry is From the Author’s Private Collection (2015); his chapbooks include From the Author’s Private Collection (2013) and Legal Pure (2012). Amling’s poetry draws on pop culture, references to leisure and luxury lifestyles, and a formal method that often mimics collage, a medium Amling works in as a visual artist as well. Publisher’s Weekly described the poems in From the Author’s Private Collection as “social critique delivered through a signal scrambler.”

Amling has exhibited work at Bushel Collective, Essex Flowers, City Bird Gallery, and many other spaces. His collages and installations playfully evoke “leisure environments” through allusion to, and distortion of, retro lifestyle magazines and vernacular luxury items. In an interview about his solo exhibit at Flying Object in Hadley, Massachusetts, “Private Event,” Amling noted, “It’s really the space around the subject being photographed that I’m after. A blurry lamp. Sunny wallpaper. I think with these soft tones and elements combined in a collage you get an undercurrent of seduction.” Another solo exhibition, “Life Coach,” was installed at Berl’s Poetry Bookshop. Amling is editor of the small press After Hours Ltd.