Perilous thoughts Print

Erin Oliver is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, and large-scale installation. She integrates phenomena of a place to investigate ideas about abstraction and artifice, cyclical processes, and natural patterns. Through an intuitive making process, she responds to the landscape and uses abstraction to deconstruct natural imagery through drawing, cutting, layering, and suspending ephemeral materials in space. The environments she constructs in both her paintings and installations become surrogate landscapes, acting as portals to transport the viewer to enchanting fantasy worlds. She conjures abstracted biomorphic forms from nature to evoke calming biological responses. These encounters aim to facilitate a sense of presence and connection to the surrounding environment as a reflection of ourselves.