Erinn Kathryn

Portland, OR

Biography

Erinn Kathryn (she/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, mixed media, painting, and installation. She collects, hordes, and augments found materials of all kinds, ranging from mass-produced goods like postcards and blister packs, to natural materials like bones and lichen, to literal street-side garbage. By re-contextualizing existing objects, Erinn reframes long-held perspectives and examines intersections between the ‘natural’ and ‘constructed’ within which we exist. Her work has been presented at Helzer Gallery and Paragon Gallery at Portland Community College (Portland; 2023, 2021), Multnomah Arts Center (Portland; 2014), Alaska House Art Gallery (Fairbanks, AK; 2013), Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR; 2012). Erinn’s most recent project, a chapbook of “constructed poems” from one existing text–In the Frail– was published by Buckman Journal in 2024.

Erinn hails from Central Pennsylvania. She received her M.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

https://www.erinnkathryn.com/


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