Erin Oliver

Erin Oliver is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, and large-scale installation. She integrates phenomena of a place to investigate ideas about abstraction and artifice, cyclical processes, and natural patterns. Through an intuitive making process, she responds to the landscape and uses abstraction to deconstruct natural imagery through drawing, cutting, layering, and suspending ephemeral materials in space.

The environments she constructs in both her paintings and installations become surrogate landscapes, acting as portals to transport the viewer to enchanting fantasy worlds. She conjures abstracted biomorphic forms from nature to evoke calming biological responses. These encounters aim to facilitate a sense of presence and connection to the surrounding environment as a reflection of ourselves.

MFA in Visual Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2021
Transart Institute, Graduate Summer Residency, Berlin, Germany, 2012
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy Campus

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2019
Night Swim, (with Jenal Dolson), Carolyn Wilson Gallery, Tampa FL
Shadowboxing, The Box, Tampa, FL
2017
Marks of Clarity, (with Kiki Farish) Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2016
New Death, Old Growth, Rm 100 Gallery, Durham, NC
Grey Area, (with Constance Pappalardo) Nicholson Gallery, ArtsCenter, Carrboro, NC
Site-specific Installation, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2015
Double Capture, Carrack Modern Art, Durham, NC
2014
Fragile, (with Zoe Sasson) Off the Radar series, Goldenbelt Studios, Durham, NC
Hager Smith Design, Raleigh, NC
2012
MJH Gallery, United Arts Council, Raleigh, NC


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022
13th Annual Drawing Discourse International Exhibition, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC
2021
Out to Pasture, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
but when you come from water, The Chapter House, Online exhibition
2019
Dark and Full of Flowers: Secundo Sunistra, Tempus Projects, Tampa, FL (Juror: Johanna Robotham, Curator of Contemporary Art, Tampa Museum of Art)
Fang Bang III, Parallelogram Gallery, Tampa, FL
2016
Winter Show, Greenhill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC
Monster Drawing Rally, NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
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