Erin Gleason

My artworks critically and playfully challenge our relationship to the tug that exists between measurement and lived experience, the rational and the sensuous. Drawing from my current research in philosophy and aesthetics and nearly twenty years of professional experience in the fields of architecture and graphic design, I create artworks in multiple mediums from drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and installation to public art commissions, interactive events, curating, and writing. Born in Buffalo, aged in Philadelphia, and seasoned in Australia, Scotland, and New York City, a curiosity and love of place has been a constant inspiration since childhood. What began as an artistic inquiry into the "tug" of place has grown into a broader examination of this tug in language, the feminine, time, and notions of truth. The artworks are often laced with a subtle humor and draw attention to the sense of wonderment in everyday life.

Erin received a BA from University of Pennsylvania, MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a PhD candidate in Philosophy, Art Theory, and Aesthetics at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.

Erin has exhibited and curated widely including BRIC, Wayfarers, and FiveMyles in NYC; 222 Gallery and Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia; Inverleith House/Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Pier Arts Center, Tent Gallery, and Shetland Museum and Archives in Scotland. She has won national public art competitions for commissions in Scotland and Pennsylvania, a Russell Trust Award for artistic research in Greenland, and is a Lori Ledis Curator Fellow at BRIC. Erin is a Co-Founder of the Crown Heights Film Festival in Brooklyn which she Curated and Directed for four years, and is the Founder and Editor of the Cultural Fluency publication. Recent residencies include NARS International Artist in Residence Program in NYC, Vermont Studio Center, and Alps Art Academy in Switzerland.