Artist Reception: Erin Currier
Fri, Sep 10
|Santa Fe
Passion, Pathos, and the Human Potential ERIN CURRIER • Preparatory ¡Flamenco Dancer! IV • Pen, ink, china marker, and gouache on paper • Image: 18.5"h x 12.5"w, framed: 21"h x 15"w Artist Reception: Friday, September 10th from 5 – 7 pm
Time & Location
Sep 10, 2021, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM MDT
Santa Fe, 544 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Erin Currier - Passion, Pathos, and the Human Potential
ON DISPLAY at Blue Rain Gallery
September 10 – October 2, 2021
My artistic practice has taken me on a lifelong “shoestring” adventure—packed with action and magic—that has variously found me training in Beijing with Kung Fu masters; tango dancing in Buenos Aires; in riots in Chile; eating dinner on dirt floors with Tibetan exiles in Nepal and at the dinner tables of famed filmmakers in Italy; on the couches of Panthers and Weather Underground; in medicinal ceremonies in the Amazonian jungle; at Tahrir Square with a million Egyptians... I am a humanist artist: unapologetically narrative, and for whom art and the social world are inseparable. I use the proceeds of the sales of my art to witness the world firsthand—i.e.-when I sell a painting, I buy a plane ticket and go!
It all began with a natural integration of my…