The Projective Eye Gallery at The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City hosts a reception for "Ghosts Over Vestiges: Recent Works of Apocalyptic Glamour," featuring work by Erik Waterkotte.

Whether religious, mythological, philosophical or theoretical, Erik Waterkotte’s art is inspired by the narratives human beings have created throughout history to explain existence and consciousness. The work in this exhibition attempts to dismantle such anthropocentric narratives by integrating the archetypal with the ecological in a memento mori of handmade paper, print and mixed media. Based on his religious upbringing and life-long fascination with the occult, these artworks are populated with an amalgamation of glyphs, icons and archetypes that confront and question viewers’ ideologies. 

Erik Waterkotte is an associate professor of print media in the Department of Art & Art History at UNC Charlotte. Waterkotte received his MFA from the University of Alberta and his BFA from Illinois State University. He is co-founder of Theurgical Studies Press, a modest publisher of weird and occult zines and novelties. He has exhibited his artwork both nationally and internationally including at Sztuka na Miejscu in Wroclaw, Poland, the University of Alberta in Canada, the University of Dallas in Texas, and Saltgrass Printmakers in Salt Lake City, Utah. His artwork is part of several collections including the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University in Georgia and the Purdue University Galleries in Indiana.

The exhibition is on view October 30, 2026, through January 22, 2027.