ABOUT
Erica Green’s site-conscious fiber installations explore the endless process of repairing and rebuilding oneself. Her practice calls to mind a kind of marathon or endurance-based approach to working in that each strip of fabric, knot, and tie is a paced passage of time. While a knot typically represents a stopping point, Green’s practice utilizes the knot as a symbolic gesture for mending and continuation. The artist’s work is shaped by hardship and by tensions between elements/forces that are both strong and fragile, messy and disciplined, heavy and light. Despite these dueling oppositions, each installation evokes comfort and pause amid the complexities of time and healing.
-Pamela Meadows, Curator BMoCA
BIOGRAPHY
Erica Green is an artist known for her site specific textile installations that transform spaces with large accumulations of knotted fibers. Born in Nebraska, she now lives and works in Colorado. Green’s work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions including the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) ,The Art Base and The Boulder Creative Collective. Her work has been included in many group exhibitions such as RULE Gallery, Redline Contemporary, The Dairy Center for the Arts. In addition, her work was included in the 2020 survey of emerging Colorado artists - Great Expectations at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs. In 2019, she was awarded the Director’s Award in “The Art of the State” show at Arvada Center for the Arts in Arvada, CO and received Honorable Mention in the “Contemporary Art Survey” at the Lincoln Center Gallery in Fort Collins, CO.
She holds a BFA from The University of Nebraska- Lincoln and completed a two-year post-baccalaureate program at the University of Colorado. She has completed several residencies including Breck Create, The Boulder Creative Collective, LUX Center for the Arts and Skidmore College. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Denver Post, The Jealous Curator and Arte Morbida. Her work lives permanently in several collections such as The Boulder Museum, Hotel Indigo and Parasoleil to name a few. Currently, Erica is a resident at the Temple Studios in Denver.