About Erik Winkowski

New Orleans–based artist Erik Winkowski treats video like collage, cutting up, painting over, and remixing scenes from everyday life in playful, unexpected ways.

After earning his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2006, where he studied animation and design, Winkowski worked for several years as a motion designer creating computer animations by day and paintings by night. In an effort to fuse his handmade work with his digital work, he started his Video Sketchbook on Instagram in 2018. Over the course of a year he posted a new video each day and developed innovative animation techniques that integrated the colorful exuberance of his paintings with the hypnotic quality of his video work.

Erik continues to experiment, pioneering new techniques in animation that can be seen in his collaborations with Gucci, Prada, Hermès, and The New York Times.