Erin Gleason US/GR
“I strive to create what author Parker Palmer describes as “a third thing” — something that “allows us to hold challenging issues metaphorically, where they can’t devolve to the pro-or-con choices forced on us by conventional debate.” For me, this is what art is all about: creating a third thing that through its beauty, seduces us to pause, wonder, contemplate, and converse, embracing possibilities beyond “the way things are.”
Erin Gleason is a NYC and Athens-based artist, designer, and curator. Drawing from her current research in philosophy and background in design and architecture, she creates artworks in multiple mediums from photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation to public art commissions, interactive events, and writing. She has exhibited and curated internationally including BRIC, FiveMyles, Equity Gallery, and Wayfarers in NYC; 222 Gallery in Philadelphia; Inverleith House/Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, National Gallery of Modern Art, Tent Gallery, and Shetland Museum in Scotland. Erin has won national competitions for public art commissions in Scotland and Pennsylvania, a Russell Trust Award for research in Greenland, a Lori Ledis Curator Fellowship at BRIC, and was a finalist for the George Kaiser Family Foundation Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is the co-founder/former director of the Crown Heights Film Festival in Brooklyn. Recent residencies include NARS Foundation, Studios at MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Alps Art Academy. Erin received BA from University of Pennsylvania and MFA from Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy, Art Theory, and Aesthetics at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, writing her dissertation on flânerie, rhythm, and the human condition.
Foggy Mourning, Until Morning: Drawings 4 & 5
Ink on Hahnemühle Paper
8.3 x 11.7 inches, unframed
2023
