Erin Curtis
Backyard, 2020, Acrylic on cut canvas, 60 x 60”
Describe your artistic style in three words.
Playful, pattern, disruption.
What's inspiring you right now?
The possibility that the challenges of today will bring progress tomorrow.
What do you do when you're feeling uninspired?
I clean the studio, picking up scraps, jotting down notes and drawings that often remind me of old ideas and new things to try.
Tell us something unique about your process.
My process involves a lot of doing and undoing — spilling paint and covering it up, painting a canvas and cutting half of it out. For me, creating a work is like a long editing process and what is not revealed is as important as what is seen.
What advice do you have for other artists?
Keep going.
Backyard (detail), 2020, Acrylic on cut canvas, 60 x 60”
Jungle Sunset, 2018, Acrylic on cut canvas, 60 x 60”
Night + Day, 2019, installation at Galveston Arts Center
The World is Flat, 2019, Acrylic on cut canvas, 80 x 60”
Light Shift, 2020, Transparent and opaque vinyl installation, 95’ long. Photo credit: Nash Baker
Tightrope, 2020, Acrylic on cut canvas, 40 x 30”
We Are Living On A Star, 2019, Hand-cut glazed brick, 20 x 25’. Commissioned work by Intelligentsia Coffee, 3rd and Shoal, Austin, TX.
Night + Day, 2020, Acrylic on cut canvas, each canvas 48 x 36”
Embroider, 2020, Acrylic on cut canvas, 40 x 30”
Erin Curtis is an artist living and working in East Austin. Her recent work explores an interest in geometric abstraction and its historical roots in weaving, nature and ritual. Primarily working as a painter, she also creates, large-scale, site-specific installations and public art projects with a painter’s sensibility.