Eric Schoch is an Indianapolis lens-based visual artist exploring shapes, lines, colors, and tone images of the city and the countryside, and in portraits, presented in various levels of abstraction.
Schoch is self-taught in photography and has been influenced by workshops and seminars with John Paul Caponigro in Maine, Sam Abell on Whidbey Island, Wash., Art Wolfe in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Olympic Peninsula, and Thom Hogan in Patagonia and South Africa.
He has shown work at the Indiana Landmarks Center, Five Seasons Studio and M10 Studio in Indianapolis, the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts in Bloomington, Ind., the Clark Gallery at the Honeywell Center in Wabash, Ind., the Opera House Gallery of Contemporary Art in Delphi, Ind., and in Black and White magazine. He is a member of the Full Circle Nine artist cooperative in Indianapolis.