Work samples

  • Prismatic Portal
    Prismatic Portal

    Prismatic Portal, linen fabric, steel, aluminum, 2023, temporarily installed in both Stuart, VA and Morgantown, WV. 8'x6'x12'. This installation explores my fascination with the Doorway Effect theory. 

  • Community Hands Scarf
    Community Hands Scarf

    Community Hands Scarf, 2023, fabric, thread, silkscreen print, beads, handmade metal charms, dimensions variable. One of a series of works created by community collaboration. The artist collected hand outlines from members of her community, designed and printed fabric with these hand outlines, and then created these garments as a means of representing the importance of that ongoing connection in her daily life. The garments include "milagro" charms handmade by the artists and sewn-in words that describe her community values, and are intended to function as a means of protection. 

  • Nurture Tent
    Nurture Tent

    Nurture Tent, 2023, fabric, steel, mylar, iridescent film, LEDs. 30"x24"x24"

  • Friendly Invitation
    Friendly Invitation

    2020, projection on tulle mesh fabric in the artist's home. Created as a series of at-home installations during the Covid-19 pandemic when we were asked to remain isolated. The artist projected "hologram" images of friends on to tulle fabric as a means of feeling in touch with their absent community.

About Erin

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… more

Prismatic Portal

Made possible with grants from both the Ignite Music and Arts festival and the Transformus Music and Arts festival, and installed at both locations in the summer of 2023, the Prismatic Portal visualizes my fascination with the Doorway Effect, which hypothesizes that we forget more easily when passing through a doorway. The colors represent the ROYGBIV light spectrum, as well as the chakras on the body. 2023. 8'x12'x6'. Linen, steel, aluminum. 

  • Prismatic Portal
    Prismatic Portal
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  • Prismatic Portal
    Prismatic Portal
  • Prismatic Portal
    Prismatic Portal

Community Hands

These garments of protection were created by and for the artist’s use as reminders of the support and encouragement of her family, friends, and community. Begun by asking her Facebook friends to contribute outlines of their hands, she then designed fabric that incorporated the hands outlines and sewed a scarf and apron from the resulting fabrics. The scarf is ringed with amulets created by the artist from aluminum cans that function like Mexican milagros. She has also sewn on words describing her community values and has added silkscreened spiral images to the scarf.

  • Community Hands Scarf
    Community Hands Scarf

    2023. Dimensions Variable. Fabric, aluminum, beads, silkscreen ink. A scarf created with fabric designed by the artist containing hand outlines of members of her community. The scarf also has metal "milagro" charms on the bottom edge, created by the artist, and pink logarithmic spiral silkscreen printed on the cloth as well. 

  • Community Hands Scarf Flat
    Community Hands Scarf Flat
  • Community Hands Apron
    Community Hands Apron

    2023. Dimensions Variable. Fabric, thread. This apron was created by and for the artist's use as a reminder of the support of her community. She designed the fabric, sewed the apron, and sewed words on the apron that describe her community values. 

Social Justice print series

A series of silkscreen prints first inspired by conversations with the artist's white friends and family about the concept of systemic racism, begun during the Black Lives Matter movement. This series seeks to combine social justice messagery with the aesthetic qualities of classic signage, such as the "Yes, We Are Open!" sign, in order to visually tie racism with capitalist institutions. All prints are silkscreen printed, 8.5x10.5 inches. 

  • Yes, You Are
    Yes, You Are

    2021. 8.5"x10.5", silkscreen print. The first in the Social Justice series. 

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  • You Can Grow
    You Can Grow

    2021. 8.5"x10.5" The second in the Social Justice series. 

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  • Violence Begets
    Violence Begets

    2022. 8.5"x10.5". The third in the social justice series, created in response to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and in response to the continued militarization of police forces in the United States.

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Isolation Installations

A series of installations created in the artist's home during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, when she took to her own domestic surroundings to confront her feelings around the pandemic. 

  • Quarantine Brain
    Quarantine Brain

    2020. Inkjet prints on fluorescent pink paper, strung on monofilament and hung in the artist's kitchen. This project personifies the high-alert feeling of the early quarantine period of the COVID-19 crisis--a time when uncertain and often conflicting information about the virus was rampant.

  • COVID-19 Genome Scroll
    COVID-19 Genome Scroll

    2020. Video projection of the 30,000 DNA base pairs comprising the first COVID-19 genome sequenced and shared globally by scientists, the artist used the projection to visualize the cultural fear that, at the time, the virus could be anywhere and everywhere, including in one's home. 

  • Friendly Invitation
    Friendly Invitation

    2020. Images of the artist's friends projected as "holograms" on to tulle mesh fabric during the isolation of the COVID-19 crisis.