Erin Ethridge is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her work uses systems, hybrids, and inversions to confuse or meld dualistic polarities. Through technology and material poetry, threads from diverse spheres are woven together into absurd objects and kinetic sculptures that visualize transformation, paradox, simultaneity, and interconnectedness. Opposites melt into each other. The sacred is made banal. Inside becomes outside. The process blurs boundaries, commemorates decay, and mythologizes memory.
Erin is also one half of Thorn, a collaborative partnership with Colleen Marie Foley. Thorn questions ideas of shared or composite identity, memory, and body. Viewing these as fundamentally fluid in nature, Thorn strives to embody that mutability. As long-distance friends and work partners, Erin and Colleen take their own relationship as subject and tool, negotiating separation and intimacy in pursuit of their limits. By envisioning permeable boundaries of self and space, Thorn works to distinguish between empowerment and invulnerability.
Erin received her MFA in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her BFA from the University of Texas at Tyler. She has participated in residencies and exhibitions in Iceland, Australia, and Italy, and has been awarded the Brancato Award by VAE Creativity Incubator and the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award by the International Sculpture Center. She is a full-time lecturer at Appalachian State University where she teaches in sculpture, foundations,
and general education.
Erin Ethridge
Curriculum Vitae
erinethridge.com / erinethridge@gmail.com / 903-805-2456
Education
2016 M.F.A., Sculpture/Dimensional Studies, School of Art and Design, New
York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
2014 B.F.A., University of Texas at Tyler
Residencies / Abroad Study
2015 Fjuk Arts Center Residency, Husavik, Iceland
2011 Printmaking Summer Abroad Program, Santa Reparata International
School of Art, University of Nebraska Lincoln; Florence, Italy
2010 Certificate of Visual Arts, C3 College; Sydney, Australia
Teaching
2018 - 2019 Lecturer, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Art for Social Change (Fall 2018)
Foundations II (Fall 2018)
2017 - 2018 Adjunct, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Digital Imaging (Summer 2018)
Performative Objects (Spring 2018)
Foundations II (Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2018)
Intro to Studio Art: Fabricating Fictions (Spring 2017)
2016 Adjunct, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Intro to Sculpture (Fall 2016)
Foundations: Studio Make (Fall 2016)
Issues and Debates in Contemporary Art, Discussion Section (Fall 2016)
Instructor of Record, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Beginning Sculpture for Non-Art Majors (Spring 2016)
2014 - 2015 Teaching Assistant, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Art and Ecology (Fall 2015)
Light and Mixed Media (Spring 2015)
Foundations: Studio Research (Fall 2014)
Experience
2018 Presenter, Tri-State Sculpture Conference, Greensboro, NC
Guest Lecturer, North Hennepin Community College, Lacuna Gallery
2017 Juror, Juried Student Exhibition, Tyler Junior College
Lap Operations Assistant Manager, Appalachian State University
2015 Resident Assistant to Ann Carlson, School of Art and Design, Alfred University
2013 Administration Assistant, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Tyler
Curatorial Assistant, Meadows Gallery, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Tyler
2012 Demonstration Assistant, New Student Workshop, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Tyler
Exhibitions / Performances
2018 Tri-State Sculpture Conference Members Exhibition, Greensboro, NC
Feedback: Alumni Invitational, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
Wide Open 9 Juried Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Arts Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
31st Annual Women’s Works Juried Show, Old Court House Arts Center, Northwest Area Arts Council, Woodstock, IL
Drawing Ghosts, Solo Show, Lacuna Gallery Project Space, Minneapolis, MN
Faculty Biennale, Turchin Center For The Visual Arts / Smith Gallery, Boone, NC
2017 SCOPE ’17 – Landscapes of the South, VAE Creativity Incubator and Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Appalachian House Juried Exhibition, Boone, NC
2016 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Decreation MFA, Thesis Exhibition, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2015 A Gulf Between Words, Performance by Thorn Collaborative, Cube, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
No Ice Cream Without Cow Shit Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
Line to Ligature Turner Gallery, Alfred, NY
Open Studios, Die Into the Hills by Thorn Collaborative, Fjuk Art Center, Husavik, Iceland
We are Always Younger Than the Future, Threshold by Thorn Collaborative, Holmes Auditorium, Alfred, NY
31st Annual International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler
2014 Material Matters, Juried Exhibition, WOCA Projects, Fort Worth, TX
Juried Exhibition Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler
SLOW CHANGE Fine Arts Complex Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler
10th Annual Diamond National Art Competition, Hot Springs, AR
2013 Student Discount Juried Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Charting Ambiguity, University of Texas at Tyler
6x6@110 Gallery Main, Tyler, TX
Celebration of the Goddess, Apex Theatre 20, Tyler, TX
Juried Exhibition Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler
2012 Coffin Shop Group Exhibition, Tyler, TX
Juried Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler
Downtown Tyler Art Walk, Tyler, TX
2011 Symposium University of Texas at Tyler
2010 Jars Exhibition of First Year Work, C3 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Honors and Awards
2017 The Brancato Award – First Place VAE Creativity Incubator and Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2016 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award International Sculpture Center
2014 Third Place 10th Annual Diamond National Art Competition, Hot Springs, AR
Nominated for ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture by Professor Dewane Hughes, U.T.Tyler
Art Talent Scholarship U.T.Tyler
President’s List U.T.Tyler
2013 Nominated for ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture by Professor Dewane Hughes, U.T.Tyler
First Place in 2D Work Juried Exhibition U.T.Tyler
Art Talent Scholarship U.T.Tyler
President’s List U.T.Tyler
2012 Honorable Mention Juried Exhibition U.T.Tyler
Art Talent Scholarship U.T.Tyler
President’s List U.T.Tyler
2011 Art Talent Scholarship U.T.Tyler
President’s List U.T.Tyler
2009 Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Tyler Junior College
Publications
2016 Sculpture Magazine, October Issue
2013 Patriot Talon, October Issue
IN Magazine, Local Artist Feature: Erin Ethridge, March Issue
2010 Belltower Arts Journal, May Issue
Professional Organizations
2013 - 2018 International Sculpture Center, Member
2012 - 2014 NCECA, Member