Erin Oliver
Find Erin on: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn About Erin Erin is currently attending residencies and traveling in China to make new work. Erin Oliver’s work has been supported by several grants and residency fellowships including Erin's work has been supported by several grants and residency fellowships including the the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Ella Foundation Pratt Emerging Artist Grant, and the Gasparilla Emerging Artist Award, juried by Paul Galloway from MOMA. Her work has been exhibited at the USF Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, FL, UNC Asheville's S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in Asheville, NC, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, the Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro, NC, and the Blumenstein Museum in Taos, NM. Erin received her MFA from the University of South Florida. |
About Erin's work
Erin's work re-imagines our complex world through multi-perspectival installation experiences, paintings, and drawings. These works are informed by the subtleties and forces of place to rethink what constitutes landscape and our connection to our surroundings. She deconstruct and reimagine natural imagery to create immersive sculptural installations via cutting, layering, and suspending ephemeral materials in space, painted with light, shadow, and color. The entanglement between light, space, and perception lies at the heart of her art practice as a means for her to understand her own relationship to her body, sensory input, and her environment. Erin's installations become surrogate landscapes that transports viewers to imagined worlds, with biomorphic forms evoking a sense of calm as a counter to the constant overstimulation and negativity of modern life.
Erin's recent work delves into layered paper tunnel book environments and their relationship to ideas of looking and access, virtual recreation, and implications of travel and sensory environments. Cut-outs generate negative shapes that bodies and light pass through, projecting shadows, repeating shapes, and reiterating abstract forms and spaces throughout the installation. Her material use reflects ephemerality and artifice, connecting to the natural world but also our virtual interactions with it. The paper serves as object as well as screen, distorting the sense of light and space, as well as notions of real, constructed, and imagined.
Learn more:
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Links:
UNC Asheville Drawing Discourse - Exhibition catalog, Installation images, and Virtual Artist Talk
USF CAM Out to Pasture - Exhibition catalog, Artist panel discussion, Virtual Tour
Block Gallery - Artist Block Video Series
Carrack Gallery Double Capture - Video of exhibition and artist talk
Erin's work re-imagines our complex world through multi-perspectival installation experiences, paintings, and drawings. These works are informed by the subtleties and forces of place to rethink what constitutes landscape and our connection to our surroundings. She deconstruct and reimagine natural imagery to create immersive sculptural installations via cutting, layering, and suspending ephemeral materials in space, painted with light, shadow, and color. The entanglement between light, space, and perception lies at the heart of her art practice as a means for her to understand her own relationship to her body, sensory input, and her environment. Erin's installations become surrogate landscapes that transports viewers to imagined worlds, with biomorphic forms evoking a sense of calm as a counter to the constant overstimulation and negativity of modern life.
Erin's recent work delves into layered paper tunnel book environments and their relationship to ideas of looking and access, virtual recreation, and implications of travel and sensory environments. Cut-outs generate negative shapes that bodies and light pass through, projecting shadows, repeating shapes, and reiterating abstract forms and spaces throughout the installation. Her material use reflects ephemerality and artifice, connecting to the natural world but also our virtual interactions with it. The paper serves as object as well as screen, distorting the sense of light and space, as well as notions of real, constructed, and imagined.
Learn more:
CV
Links:
UNC Asheville Drawing Discourse - Exhibition catalog, Installation images, and Virtual Artist Talk
USF CAM Out to Pasture - Exhibition catalog, Artist panel discussion, Virtual Tour
Block Gallery - Artist Block Video Series
Carrack Gallery Double Capture - Video of exhibition and artist talk