Eric Louis January is a multidisciplinary artist from Chicago IL, a recently graduated painting major at Howard University, Summa Cum Laude. Moving from Texas to Chicago at an early age, January's lens shifted growing up on the far south side of the city and its surrounding outskirts. He is continually reinvigorated by his own family’s journey. Having a deep love for history and his community, he dives into the roles of infrastructure and the people that are shaped by it. 

He was awarded painting scholarships at both Howard University and BlackHawk College. January has worked with The NBA, Nike, and Microsoft to date.

His work explores contemporary life in the Black community, ranging from observing athletes to everyday people. Investigating the Black American landscape and the colonial infrastructures that mold culture. He sees divinity in nature, and people. Often playing with biblical allegory interwoven through the work. He combines cultural symbols throughout different eras into the paintings. January believes his work is an act of reclamation and resistance against malevolent misrepresentation in media for generations.

He blends the line between raw abstract expressionism and romantic gestures, finding balance between motion and stillness. Often using a shifting color palette to reflect the emotional charged surrealism of life. Depicting blackness as it is chronicled throughout the inner cities, small towns, suburbia and beyond.