From hitchhiking and working on organic farms in Aotearoa to an artist residency in Ghana to performing seasonal labor at an Alaskan fishing lodge to her graduate degrees and mainly her faith in Jesus’ love practice, she has sought out experiences to broaden her perception. With these skills, she makes the work from a deep personal connection to layers of meaning and intellectual inquiry but then lets the artwork have its own life with and without her intentions since art is always subjective and relational. Herein lies the endless mystery of art as communication, as a pathway somewhere, as a spiritual, as political, as a doorway… as what else?
Erin’s work has been shared internationally in diverse ways. Sound broadcasts include Materials & Applications architecture radio (Los Angeles), Soundart Radio (U.K.), and Lookout FM online. Moving images screened in various formats from gallery installations to film festivals that include GRRL HAUS Cinema (Berlin, Germany), Stone + Water (Seoul, Korea), Open Access TV (Portland, Oregon), and as part of The One Minutes Series (Netherlands) touring festivals and art spaces around Europe including RIFF (Reykjavík, Iceland) and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany). Her short film “Safe Passage (for Sheila)” went on a two year world tour of film festivals and art spaces in 21 countries across Asia, North and South America, and Europe earning 56 laurels, 16 awards, and 10 nominations.
She has had several solo and group shows, performed dance work in the woods and installed work in an old gas station turned exhibition space (City of Glendale, CA) as well as exhibited artwork in galleries that include Center on Contemporary Art (Seattle), Monte Vista Projects (Los Angeles), Tamarind Institute, SITE Santa Fe (New Mexico), Black Box Gallery (Portland, OR), BIOS (Athens, Greece), and Loosen Art (Rome, Italy). Publicity features of her work include New Current (London/Barcelona), FICIMAD 23 Magazine (Madrid), Public Broadcasting Network TV, Terrain Journal, and Southwest Contemporary Magazine. Her own writing on art and historical archives has been published with the Getty News + Stories and Getty podcast Art + Ideas, Los Angeles Archivist Collective Acid Free Magazine, and Emergency INDEX issues 6, 7, and 10+ among others.
She was raised in Portland, OR and currently is based in the Southwest, USA making good food and working on her dance moves.
