Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer


Erin Jane Nelson at DOCUMENT (Contemporary Art Daily)

Erin Jane Nelson (b. 1989, Neenah, Wisconsin) lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2011 she received her BFA from The Cooper Union. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Chapter NY, New York; DOCUMENT, Chicago; and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta; among others.


Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer

Erin Jane Nelson September 11-October 31, 2020 View Exhibition Walkthrough Mottled and sinister, the ceramics in Erin Jane Nelson's Resting Spore summon memories of the puffballs mushrooms I encountered as a child in Appalachia, where they were best known as "devil's snuffboxes."


Erin Jane Nelson New Museum Collector Daily

Erin Jane Nelson's practice is grounded in photography sourced from her personal archive of found and original images. She often works serially, with each project delving into new conceptual frameworks as far ranging as regional histories of the Southern barrier islands, formative personal relationships, spirituality as a process of mourning.


Erin Jane Nelson’s “One Entanglement, Under Clouds”

Artist Erin Jane Nelson's practice is grounded in photography sourced from her personal archive of found and original images. She works serially, with each project delving into new conceptual frameworks, from cultural anxiety around climate change to the sentience of octopuses, or the science fiction of our present moment.


Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer

Visual artist Erin Jane Nelson is interested in the creative possibilities of destruction. She "finds a way to make a good use of garbage" through recycling her image archive and studio refuse into photographic textile works. A mess of signs for messy times: her works test the boundaries of image legibility and information.


Erin Jane Nelson on conflicting influences The Creative

Erin Jane Nelson (b. 1989, Neenah, WI, USA) is an artist who lives and works in Atlanta. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include "One Entanglement, Under Clouds," Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta (2021); "Resting Spore," DOCUMENT, Chicago (2020), "שכינה Shekinah," Chapter NY, New York (2020); and "Her.


Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer

I am an artist and writer living in Atlanta, Georgia. To see images of recent projects and artworks please visit my galleries' websites: Chapter in New York or Document in Chicago. In addition to my own practice, I also work in support of other artists (particularly in the US South), and in service of a decentralized, mutualistic art world.


Erin Jane Nelson at Document Art Viewer

Erin Jane Nelson is an Atlanta-based artist and writer who received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2011. She will be included in the forthcoming 2021 New Museum Triennial: Hard Water Soft Stone in New York this October. Her work has recently been exhibited in Making Knowing:.


Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer

Erin Jane Nelson leads a roundtable discussion with three artists working in the state of Georgia: Suzanne Jackson, Yanique Norman, and Katya Tepper. Previous Work Burnaway is an Atlanta-based digital magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South.


Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer

Erin Jane Nelson's art practice is grounded in photography sourced from her personal archive of found and original images. She often works serially, with each project delving into new conceptual frameworks as far ranging as regional histories of the Southern barrier islands, formative personal relationships, spirituality as a process of mourning and healing, and science fiction narratives.


Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer

Erin Jane Nelson is an Atlanta-based interdisciplinary artist working between photography, ceramics, textiles, and other mediums. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Chapter NY, New York; DOCUMENT, Chicago; and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta; among others.


Erin Jane Nelson’s “One Entanglement, Under Clouds”

Nov 22, 2019-Feb 20, 2022. Between the Waters. Mar 9-July 22, 2018. Have feedback about the Whitney's online collection? Send us a message . API. Images & permissions. Open access. Erin Jane Nelson, 1989-. 1 work in the Whitney's collection.


Erin Jane Nelson at MOCA GA Art Viewer

Erin Jane Nelson Follow Erin Jane Nelson's prints, quilts, and sculptures suggest an interest in testing the boundaries of image legibility, and an ethic of observation that is both reportorial and poetic without fussing over their own worth.


Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer

Erin Jane Nelson (b. 1989, Neenah, WI; lives in Atlanta, GA) received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2011. Her work has recently been exhibited in "Between the Waters" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and "Photography Today: Public Private Relations" at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.


Erin Jane Nelson at Atlanta Contemporary Art Viewer

Erin Jane Nelson: The idea of ecological entanglement that the show explores is definitely specific to the South. In 2017, I started making work about southern barrier islands because they are so tangibly under siege by the climate crisis. I also was drawn to these sites because they contained so much overlooked history that directly and.


Erin Jane Nelson on conflicting influences The Creative

Sometimes projects spill into the backyard and patio. "Having everything under one roof is definitely a dream,'" she says, recalling past years spent living in an apartment and commuting to studios.

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