Erin Stellmon

Work samples

"Big Rock Candy Mountain"

Iron-on photo collage, acrylic, and gouache on silver fabric
24x48"
2025

Available for Purchase

$2500 [email protected]
"Crossing the Bridge"

Acrylic gouache on panel
11x14”
2021

Available for Purchase

$1800 [email protected]
"Rerouting"

Gouache on paper
13x18"
2024

Available for Purchase

$1000
"She Left it Open for You"

Acrylic-dipped string, acrylic gouache on layers of canvas. Iron-on photo collage and acrylic on paper.
24 x 36 x 5.5”
2025

The artist's homage to the world feminists have built before her, "She Left it Open for You" shows a barrier that has been held open for the viewer to enter. The land beyond the fence is composed of growing crystal forms that emit light and possibilities.

Available for Purchase

$2500

About Erin

Erin Stellmon is an artist and educator in Baltimore, MD by way of Las Vegas, NV; New York, NY and Portland, OR; and has exhibited at museums and cultural institutions nationally and internationally. Her mixed media collages, installations, and paintings explore the contemporary landscape through barriers, walls, and temporary fences intended to question traditional notions of safety and home.
Stellmon is also the creator, co-producer, and director of "Gunz of Steel", an… more

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Back East-selections

“Back East,” was an exhibition of works at Current Space by Erin Stellmon and Rahne Alexander, two Baltimore-based artists whose origin stories begin on the West Coast of the United States: Alexander in California and Stellmon in Oregon. “Back East” emerges from a series of conversations between the artists about their independent decisions to find home in Baltimore, breaking ties with myths deeply held by both family and nation about the promises of westward expansion.

Stellmon's mixed media wall pieces feature the artist carrying her inherited ancestral headboard, brought west on the Oregon Trail in 1850. She is shown walking through rough volcanic terrain, following safety cones left by previous feminist trailblazers. She comes across beautiful and surreal natural events, encouraging a reward for her personal efforts to make her own way, "Back East".

"Trek by Comet Light"

“Trek by Comet Light”, 2025
Iron-on photo collage, acrylic and gouache on denim, 8x10”

Available for Purchase

$750
"Big Rock Candy Mountain"

“Big Rock Candy Mountain” 2025
Iron-on photo collage, acrylic and gouache on fabric, 24x48”

Available for Purchase

$2500
"Dazzle Wagon Trek"

“Dazzle Wagon Trek” 2025
Iron-on photo collage, acrylic and gouache on denim, 24x48”

Available for Purchase

$2500
"Eruption"

“Eruption” 2025
Acrylic, gouache, iron-on photo collage, shrink plastic, and ink on denim, 24x36"

Available for Purchase

$2000
"Eruption" detail

detail of "Eruption"
showing ink, shrink plastic, acrylic, and iron-on photo collage on canvas.
“She Left it Open For You”

“She Left it Open For You”, 2025
Acrylic-dipped string, acrylic gouache on canvas, iron-on photo collage on paper, 24 x 36 x 5.5”

The artist's homage to the world feminists have built before her, "She Left it Open for You" shows a barrier that has been held open for the viewer to enter. The land beyond the fence is composed of growing crystal forms that emit light and possibilities.

Available for Purchase

$2000
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
100 volcanos (detail)

100 Volcanos, 2023-2025
ceramic, clay, acrylic, glaze, printed fabric on shelf
-The artist started making small volcanoes when her mom died as a reminder of comfort and strength. This grew into a regular practice, considering different stages of eruption and color combinations as portraits of women in her life. This quote was printed out in the gallery for visitors to take:
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
That’s what I want—to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don’t know the power in you—I want to hear you. I want to listen to you talking to each other and to us all: whether you’re writing an article or a poem or a letter or teaching a class or talking with friends or reading a novel or making a speech or proposing a law or giving a judgment or singing the baby to sleep or discussing the fate of nations, I want to hear you. Speak with a woman’s tongue.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
"Mall Trek"

“Mall Trek” 2025
46x19”
Iron-on photos on vintage sheet

Available for Purchase

$250
"Go East Young Wierdo"

"Go East Young Weirdo" video, 13 minutes
by Rahne Alexander and Erin Stellmon, filmed by Kristen Anchor
Video features Alexander and Stellmon on their trek to find their own path, "Back East". Rahne wears a cowboy hat and boots while carrying an unwieldy, large, blank canvas. Stellmon wears a bonnet featuring homemade punk rock patches and pins (the A representing her alter ego Atomica from Gunz of Steel and the compass to represent Rahne on the other side), and pulls a Radio Flyer wagon covered with a patched quilt made of a Dazzle camouflage design (Dazzle camo was designed for British battleships by female art design students in WW1 to disorient German submarines).
Rahne and Erin trek through a Baltimore neighborhood, surviving uneven sidewalks and hilly backyards, following safety cones left by Weirdos who have come before them. They are symbols of the camaraderie and perseverance required in artist collaboration and community, taking breaks to play and contemplate along their trek,

Back East -photography self portraits

The photographs in this gallery were taken in Lloyd Center Mall with the ancestral headboard that came west on the Oregon Trail in 1850

Lloyd Center Trek 3

Digital photography, size variable, 2025
Lloyd Center Trek 2

Digital photography, size variable, 2025
Lloyd Center Trek 1

Digital photography, size variable, 2025
Lloyd Center Trek 4

Digital photography, size variable, 2025
Cemetery Trek 1

Digital photography, size variable, 2025
Cemetery Trek 2

Digital photography, size variable, 2025
Cemetery Trek 3

Digital photography, size variable, 2025

Back East-installation images

“Back East,” was an exhibition of works by Erin Stellmon and Rahne Alexander at Current Space in Baltimore, MD in 2025. These two Baltimore-based artists whose origin stories begin on the West Coast of the United States: Alexander in California and Stellmon in Oregon. “Back East” emerges from a series of conversations between the artists about their independent decisions to find home in Baltimore, breaking ties with myths deeply held by both family and nation about the promises of westward expansion. Installation photos by Vivian Marie Doering

Back East Installation at Current Space Baltimore, MD

Back East installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering of Erin Stellmon's sculptures of safety cones and volcanoes on fabric-draped shelves underneath mixed media paintings
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Front Window Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering
Front Window Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Front Window Installation photo by Vivian Marie Doering

Freedom Force

Freedom Force originated as a graduate reading group at UNLV in the early 2000’s. The course was taught by Stephen Hendee, and the group was encouraged to use Las Vegas as its inspiration. In turn, the group held events called “One Night Stands” in motel rooms including The Blue Angel, The Aruba, The Stardust and The Palms. A rotating group of graduate and undergraduate art students participated, but the core group has kept in touch to reunite in 2021 for Freedom>Force REDUX.

Stellmon's work heavily leans on the experience of being in and coming out of the pandemic. Images of fences and objects breaking out and becoming free of barriers are some symbols in this body of work.

"Crossing the Bridge"

"Crossing the Bridge", 2021
Acrylic gouache on panel, 11x14”

Available for Purchase

$1800
Restricted

"Restricted", 2021
Acrylic gouache on panel, 11x14”

Available for Purchase

$1800
Quarantine

"Quarantine", 2021
Acrylic gouache on panel, 11x14”
"Erosion"
Brutalism Under Construction
"Brutalism Under Construction I"
"2nd Dose"

"2nd Dose", 2021
collage, gouache, graphite on paper, 11X14"

Available for Purchase

$500
"Just a Show"

"Just a Show", 2021
Collage, gouache, graphite on paper, 11X14"
"Making a Break"

"Making a Break", 2021
Collage, gouache, graphite on paper, 11X14"

Available for Purchase

$500
"Persist"

"Persist", 2018
Acrylic gouache on canvas, 36x48"

Volcanoes and Landscapes

Works featuring volcanoes in gouache on paper

"Fenced In"

Gouache on paper
13x18"
2024
"Rerouting"

Gouache on paper
13x18"
2024

Available for Purchase

$1000
Lane Closure

gouache on paper

13"x18"

2024

Available for Purchase

$1200 framed
No Parking

Gouache on paper
13"x18"
2024

Available for Purchase

$1200 framed
Keep Right

Gouache on paper
13x18"
2024

Available for Purchase

$1200 framed

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Erin Stellmon

Visual Arts - 2D