Baker Artist Portfolios

Erin is a printmaker, painter, installation artist, sewer, and designer living in Baltimore city. In 2008 she received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking, with a concentration in Lithography, from Virginia Commonwealth University, and in 2020 she received a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Interactive Media and Design from Towson University. She is currently enrolled in the Studio Art MFA program at Towson. She is a founding member of the activist projection group Luminous Intervention, and is one half of the LED installation art duo Radiance. She is the founder of Shinyfresh Press print studio, which hosts the annual Shinyfresh Winter Print Exchange. Erin is fascinated by repetition and systems—most notably social systems, symbols, human bodies, growth and decay. Her work encourages feelings of universal connection, seeking, acceptance, and care. She borrows from the structural conventions of world religions, especially folk traditions and Christian saints portraits, to encourage self love and to portray the sacredness of both the everyday and the infinite. Erin is a member of a wonderful community of supportive weirdos: queer, LGBTQIA+, often polyamorous, and largely Burning Man adjacent, and she represents this transient, oft-anarchic community in her art and values, including via collaborative projects. Across all media, her bold color choices often borrow from the fluorescent hues of "commercial" printing, asking for your attention and intentionally reflecting the light spectrum and the commonly-understood colors of the LGBTQIA+ community.