RESUME

Erin Woodbrey (b. 1985, Portland, Maine) is a visual artist whose body of interdisciplinary work utilizes sculpture, printmaking, photography, and time-based media. Woodbrey’s work seeks to parse the fused and knotted qualities of the current global environmental crisis as examined through objects, the landscape, and the relationships between bodies and architectures. Woodbrey’s work is presented, piece by piece, as a study of fabricated and naturally occurring units of space and time. Her gaze, wide in scope, is trained on the interrelated qualities of process, time, material, nature, the body, and architecture. Using sometimes insubstantial materials to depict what seems simultaneously indestructible and delicate, Woodbrey’s work, explores the tension between permanence and transience, growth and decay. Often involving a dialog on contemporary Ecological discourse and new materialisms, Woodbrey’s work draws on the legacies of Dada and conceptual art movements of the 1960’s and 70’s including Fluxus, Arte Povera, Process Art, Land Art, and Environmental Art. Through experiment and focused research, Woodbrey’s work asks essential questions about how the functions of objects and space inform, mirror, and tend to the human condition and more broadly, conditions of being.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Here After (with Megan Biddle), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA;  of the Sun, YWC, Baton Rogue, LA; Expo Chicago (with Wilder Alison), Gaa, Chicago, IL; 201 Telephone Box Gallery, St. Andrews, Scotland; The Fragment Series, Gaa, Provincetown, MA; Quill Isn’t Staying Now, with Dani Leventhal ReStack, Gaa, Cologne, Germany; Leg, Limber, Lumber, Limb, Higgins Art Gallery at Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA; Time Mothers, Gaa Provincetown, MA; Material Studies, Arena Gallery, Liverpool, UK; and ‘Air of Another Planet,’ Gaa, Wellfleet, MA. Woodbrey’s work has been included group exhibitions at Cry Baby, Berlin, Germany; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; SÍM Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland; Greylight Projects, Hoensbroek, Netherlands USA; Code Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA; International Print Center, New York, NY, and Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, among others. Woodbrey lives and works in the New England region.