Featured photograph from ART 02478:
Art 02478 was installed at the BGA from June through September, 2007 and featured the work of 46 Belmont artists. Wellington Station, one in a series of photographic panoramas by Eric Almquist was a part of this exhibit, along with two additional prints from this series.
Eric Almquist has had a life-long interest in photography and the history of photography. He is
both a practicing photographer and a collector, and has exhibited at Stanford University and local venues in Massachusetts. His work concentrates on landscape and social landscape photography, done mainly in Nebraska, New England, and the UK.
In January, 2009 the BGA presented In the Minds of Men, a two man show featuring work by Almquist and Warren Croce. From the BGA archives:
From the minds of men throughout our human history have come many great things: works of great beauty, invention, scholarship...but also power, destruction, manipulation, and war. What happens in the minds of men has had a profound effect on human destiny--oftentimes resulting in tragic consequences. Belmont artists Warren Croce and Eric Almquist have tried to address and reflect on some of these issues in the thought-provoking IN THE MINDS OF MEN exhibit at the Belmont Gallery of Art.
...Longtime Belmont resident Almquist's work in the show includes a number of photographs from his series "Trinity," which focuses on the three US atomic bomb sites during World War II. Almquist's photographs, taken during a visit to the Alamogordo, New Mexico, bomb test site location in April 2003, have a haunting, almost-surreal feeling about them. Read more...
Eric lives in Belmont with his wife Nanny and has three grown sons. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University and is currently a Partner at Bain & Company.