Artist Statement
Through material poetics and kinetic forms, I explore states of transition, paradox, and simultaneity as conditions that resist fixed meaning and invite viewers to sit with ambiguity and indeterminacy. Growing up in what my mother called the “belt buckle of the Bible belt,” I witnessed firsthand how fundamentalist worldviews flatten complexity into rigid dualisms: good and bad, saved and damned, pure and impure. In resistance, my work asserts a both/and logic, foregrounding fluidity, interconnectedness, and uncertainty.
Bio
Erin Ethridge (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Born in Texas and living in North Carolina, Erin’s work is in dialogue with the culture and landscape of the South. Erin received her MFA in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Her solo and collaborative work has been exhibited in venues such as the Mint Museum, Denison Museum, and CICA Museum, and she has participated in residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Tides Institute and Museum of Art, and Elsewhere Museum. Erin is an Assistant Professor and Foundations Coordinator for the Department of Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Erin is one half of Thorn, a collaborative partnership with Colleen Marie Foley.
Contact
erinethridge@gmail.com
903-805-2456