STATEMENT


I make work that confronts the needs of our time, focusing on environmental degradation and resuscitation, social issues, urban growth and gentrification. My projects portray human action/inaction on environments, relationship to place, veneration vs. subjugation.

My inspiration comes from topographic and demographic data, texts, testimonials, interviews. My art objects employ and alter found objects and reclaimed materials to reframe long-held perspectives, and to examine the intersections between the ‘natural’ and ‘constructed’ within which we exist.

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BIOGRAPHY

Erinn Kathryn is an interdisciplinary artist who works in sculpture, mixed media, painting, and installation. Notable solo/ feature exhibitions include: Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR 2012), Alaska House Art Gallery (Fairbanks, AK, 2013), Multnomah Arts Center (Portland, OR 2014), Bison Gallery @ Oregon College of Art and Craft (Portland, OR, 2016), and Portland Community College (2021/3).

Erinn has participated in various nationally recognized artist residencies in Alaska, Vermont, Oregon, Washington, and the American Southwest.  She has been awarded numerous grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC, Portland, OR) for her sculpture/installation projects, including an honorarium for a site-specific installation in 2015.

Erinn’s work is part of the permanent collections of Portland Metro, the Zymoglyphic Museum, the J. Michael Carroll Cancer Center at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and the Museum of the North, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her constructed poetry chapbook, In the Frail, was released in 2024 by Buckman Journal. Her poems have been featured in Subjectiv Journal (Spring 2022), Issue 07 from Pile Press, & Common Ground from Borderline Press.

Erinn studied printmaking, dance, and psychology at Penn State University and received her M.A.T. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.