William Eager
Art for Your Imagination

William Eager creates acrylic, mixed media, photography and digital artwork that awakens your imagination.

Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, my abstract and contemporary artwork is connected to my love of nature.  The exotic dance of life often involves competition and collaboration between plants as they weave themselves together in a dazzling display of chaotic entanglement.  What we see above ground is often a mirror of the beautiful entanglement and evolution that occurs unseen, below the soil, which I try to capture in my “Roots Run Deep” series.  This series is also a metaphor for our own personal biography which stretches back in time through our ancestral roots.  Biomorphic paintings such as Chili Pepper and Expansion share the shapes and colors which attract pollinators.  

The Animal Instinct surrealistic digital art series features a variety of animals engaging in a variety of humanistic activities ranging from a Polar Bear preparing pancakes to a Cow playing basketball on the moon.   I try to connect each animal with an activity that mirrors their natural behaviors and instincts ... such as a Goose in a laundry mat where exploding washing machines spill out ducks.  Each image has been carefully crafted using a variety of digital tools and is printed on archival, fine art paper with a limited, signed edition of only 5 prints.

For several  years I have also been intrigued by graffiti, petroglyphs and pictographs… especially images discovered on stones, walls and buildings.  Some have existed for thousands of years.... others a few weeks.  These images, words, messages, scratches and drawings pile up on each other over time.  Like layers of shellac that represent ideas and feelings of people who live today … and others who lived ages ago when a different sense of society and relationships between man and nature existed.  Like an archeologist who uncovers mysteries about society as they dig back through a site; my art often layers one message on top of another.  I sincerely hope you enjoy the art work and that it triggers your imagination to fly.

I share two Photographic Series.  One is Solarizations, a series of images that captures people in daily life, but adds a layer of mystery with in-darkroom solarization.  A second Photographic Series is called “Completely Blurred.”Since the invention of photography, one of the fundamental tenets of a “good”image has been perfect focus.  I believe intentional blur introducessomething just as powerful - emotion.  Blurtransforms the way we experience an image. It heightens a sense of movement,as seen in Walking at Rush Hour and Man and Woman Dancing, where motion becomes  tangible. It also conveys anonymity—the feeling of being unseen, orperhaps not wanting to be seen—captured in Sitting with Face in Hands andWalking at Night.  This series alsochallenges the idea that portraits must alwaysbe sharply focused. By embracing blur, the subject remains enigmatic, both tothe viewer and to others who are in the image. In doing so, the personality ofthe individual isn’t erased but takes on a new, mysterious power.  

Artist Bio

I am a prolific artist, writer, photographer and playwright.  I studied art and painting under Boston artist Don Moulton and photography with Lee Friedlander (I think you will see his influence in my photographs) and Marie Cosindas at Colorado College.  I studied art history at Bucknell University where my father was Chairman of the Art Department.  My paintings and photographs have been shown in New York, Bucknell University, The Lakewood Cultural Center, Gallery West in Denver, the CORE Art Space anime show called Kandy Kulture, 3C Art Collective, the Indianapolis Art Center, the Eldorado at Santa Fe Studio Tour, Mosaik Gallery on Canyon Road in and with the Taos Abstract Artists Collective at The Stables Gallery.

Bill Eager photographs have been featured on covers and stories in magazines including Forbes Magazine and Children & Science.   I have done corporate photography for BASF Corporation, IBM and NREL (the National Renewable Energy Laboratory); and I have photographed native healers and shamans around the world.  See: Bills People Photos. My photograph "I Dream of Peace" was included in the 2022 Indianapolis Art Center’s Exhibition: “Convergence: A Contemporary Photography Exhibition."  

My art videos Eidelons and Watercolors premiered at the 40 West Arts District in Denver (see below for links to the videos).   I have written 12 books and recently wrote and produced a play called The Artist, The Shaman and The Acupuncturist performed online by members of the Denver Center for Performing Arts.  I studied art history at Bucknell University, have a BFA in Filmmaking from the University of Bridgeport and a Masters Degree in Communications from Syracuse University.

I design and create web sites for contemporary artists.  Several sites include Florence Putterman - Web Site  Here and Tom Bosma - Web Site Here.