Iphone uploads of my residency, some new editions I have been working on, and some shots of the beautiful Bay Area. Professional documentation and more pics to come!
Kala Residency
Berkeley is quite inspiring , it is wonderful to be in a place with such great support for the arts!!
Adventures in Berkeley
My landlord Bernt Wahl, a fractal mathematician here at UC Berkeley collaborated with Jhane Barnes to make fractal based textile patterns... fascinating, also this video is awesome 80's =)
http://youtu.be/luRhy2aimRI
Print Exchange at LA Print Space...opening May 16th
California Exhibition opening tomorrow!
Exhibition in New Hampshire
Live free or die!! If you are in the Boston or Manchester NH area stop by this awesome print show, wish I wasn't on the other coast so I could go!
Prominent Printmakers II
March 20 – April 10, 2013
Opening Reception:Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 5–7 pm
Amherst Street Gallery, 77 Amherst Street
The New Hampshire Institute of Art is pleased to announce our second juried exhibition featuring regional and national “Prominent Printmakers.” This exhibition will be on display in the Amherst Street Gallery.
Artwork By Erin Smith
Artist Residency
This May I will be doing a residency at the Kala Institute of Art in Berkeley CA! Looking forward to making prints in their AWESOME studios, visiting my NorCAl friends, and exploring Berkeley and the Bay!!!
California Livin' and Lovin'
Exhibition in Belfast
Taking Home With You group exhibition traveling to Northern Ireland this month!
New job and gallery representation.
Check out Zoe Bios Creative, an art and design company based out of Silver Lake, CA...just northwest of downtown LA. They are going to be representing my artwork selling digital prints and textiles. I am also doing some graphic design for them.
Zoe Bios Creative has coined the term ‘ArtEntouré’ to express a full circle cross-pollination of the art world with the design world. “Our fusion of art and design inspires a vitality of meaning in the everyday, hopefully provoking a higher consciousness in the way we live with, and make use of objects.”
Press from exhibitions this summer
My new Print Shop!
Reduction print in progress.
Grand Canyon Inspiration
The last few months I have been on the go! Making the long but glorious trip from Columbus Ohio to the left coast, with a strange round about way to get there that was thrilling, exhausting, and inspiring! It included seeing all three coasts, (that is East, Gulf, and West) Niagara Falls, The Grand Canyon, Austin and Marfa Texas, New Mexico, and so much more in two months time!
Textile Designs
photos from thesis exhbition
Opening Night! Come check it out First: MFA New Projects Columbus College of Art and Design
Canzani Gallery 60 Cleveland Ave. Columbus OH
March 30th-April 27th
Preview
Preview of our thesis show, they have the title wrong on my piece, oh well they got it right in the paper.
http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2012/03/29/preview-ccad-mfa-thesis-exhibition.html
http://www.columbusalive.com/content/stories/2012/03/29/preview-ccad-mfa-thesis-exhibition.html
Just finished making 18 Frames!! I still have to make the spacers, can't wait to put my prints in them!
Artist Statement
When was the last time you
questioned and imagined what a Bird-of-Paradise looked like? There is no need to fantasize because the
Internet provides the world with thousands of images of everything possible and
it takes seconds to discover appearances.
This is great for education however, ingenuity and the unknown are lost;
people think and remember less with such vast references at their
fingertips. My artwork fills in
this gap, encouraging people to imagine, interpret, and converse. I have created a collection of prints
and textiles, which converse with each other and unify aspects of design. The
historical and theoretical context of my work is influenced by fiction,
surrealism, Japanese prints, ornament, narrative abstraction, and
formalism. Innovation springs from
methods of chance and intuitive spontaneity, which results in automatic
drawings. These drawings depict
abstracted biomorphic and zoological characters I then place in different
settings or situations. Inimitable
and enigmatic, my work touches on fantasy, humor, and the bizarre aspects of
life and dreaming. It also provides entertainment that radiates energy and
hopefully conjures happiness.
Surreal motifs encourage wonder, fuel imagination, and cannot be defined
by an Internet search; everyone will interpret the work with their own twist,
what is yours?
My print and I at Ohiocentric in OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH
