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Mel Mejíra put together an astounding virtual gallery featuring women exploring their self identity through the pandemic. Use the QR code or the link to view. https://publish.exhibbit.com/gallery/087835108/atrium-gallery-29871/  
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I'm excited to announce I have open studio hours on the virtual studio tour at Mana Contemporary. They have partnered with CADAF online for an amazing open house event. Come by my booth: softspot.art/cadaf/cadaf-online-2020/erin-kuhn/1~1  I am thrilled to have both pieces in this exhibit at the Morris Museum. Please check out the online catalog (I have a full page!) and all the other gorgeous work in the show. https://morrismuseum.org/events/nj-arts-annual-2020/  “Death Knell,” (paper and paint on canvas, 20” x 20”)- Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, uses a metaphor of a wave in the ocean to describe human existence. The concept of returning to the ocean after the journey of the wave is complete resonated deeply with me. Sound is energy, traveling through longitudinal or transverse waves. Energy is never destroyed, but transformed and changed. .
I made gestural drawings of a skeleton rocking its head, and designed the visual representation of sound waves both undulating in ripples and spiking out in discordance and cut all of them out of paper. I layered the tolling of bells to mark someone’s death in sound waves on the canvas. Expanding from the initial symbolism of the wave, I focused on visually representing energy (life and death) as a force in both form and shape and color. Thich Nhat Hanh quote: “When we look at the ocean, we see that each wave has a beginning and an end. A wave can be compared with other waves, and we can call it more or less beautiful, higher or lower, longer lasting or less long lasting. But if we look more deeply, we see that a wave is made of water. While living the life of a wave, the wave also lives the life of water. It would be sad if the wave did not know that it is water. It would think, “Some day I will have to die. This period of time is my life span, and when I arrive at the shore, I will return to nonbeing.” These notions will cause the wave fear and anguish. A wave can be recognized by signs—beginning or ending, high or low, beautiful or ugly. In the world of the wave, the world of relative truth, the wave feels happy as she swells, and she feels sad as she falls. She may think, “I am high!” or “I am low!” and develop superiority or inferiority complexes, but in the world of the water there are no signs, and when the wave touches her true nature—which is water—all of her complexes will cease, and she will transcend birth and death.” "The Rain Will Make The Flowers Grow" Original art on paper SOLD OUT
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Sold out This piece is framed, signed, original one of a kind work on paper. It is paint on paper, 10" x 10" in a black frame. © Erin Kuhn 2020 SOLD OUT Moon Babe 5x7 Print in Pink Frame
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5x7 Archival glossy print of "Moon Babe," framed in a delicious deep pink modern frame with hanging hardware and attached arm for table top display. Heart On Fire Print 5x5
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"Heart On Fire," © Erin Kuhn. This 5x5 work of art is printed on glossy archival Fuji photographic paper. Can be printed upon request in 10x10 - email me at LightFoxDesigns@gmail.com Self Love Print 8x10
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"Heart On Fire," © Erin Kuhn. This 8x10 work of art is printed on glossy archival Fuji photographic paper. All The Doors Open For You - 8x10 print
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"All The Doors Open For You," © Erin Kuhn. This 8x10 work of art is printed on glossy archival Fuji photographic paper. Manifest your dreams, and encourage your friends and loved ones to dream bigger with this print! If you would like this as a 16" x 20" print, message me! I can make a limited batch for only$35 each All The Doors Open For You - 5x7 print (Two Options)
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"Energy & Intent," © Erin Kuhn. This 5x7 work of art is printed on glossy archival Fuji photographic paper. Manifest your dreams, and encourage your friends and loved ones to dream bigger with this print! You can choose between the lighter or darker version. Just message me at checkout. Discipline Is Self Love 5x5 print
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"Discipline is Self Love," © Erin Kuhn. This 5x5 work of art is printed on glossy archival Fuji photographic paper. Flora Prints - 8x10 Colors available
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"Flora," 8x10 on archival photographic paper. Select color options from Red, Amber, Teal, Blue, and Magenta. This Friday is the opening for my next exhibit, Resistant Women, curated by Atim Anette Otin. The event is open to the public from 6pm-10pm 339 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302 at Merseles Studio / Jersey City Theater Center. The exhibit will be open through March 27th, 2020. www.eventbrite.com/e/resistant-women-art-exhibition-opening-tickets-97661806091 My work, "Death Knell," and "Organized Cacophony," will be on exhibit from April 3rd through September at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ. The exhibit is curated by Lowery Stokes Sims, Curator Emerita of the Museum of Arts and Design, and Cleveland Johnson, Executive Director of the Morris Museum. morrismuseum.org/events/nj-arts-annual-2020/ The work is currently for sale, but will be at the Museum throughout the exhibition, which ends September 6th, 2020.    1. “Death K nell ,” paper and paint on canvas, 20 x 20 x 1, © Erin K uhn 2020- Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, uses a metaphor of a wave in the ocean to describe human existence. The concept of returning to the ocean after the journey of the wave is complete struck me deeply. Sound is energy, traveling through longitudinal or transverse waves. Energy is never destroyed, but transformed and changed.
I made gestural drawings of a skeleton rocking its head, and designed the visual representation of sound waves both undulating in ripples and spiking out in discordance and cut all of them out of paper. I layered the tolling of bells to mark someone’s death in sound waves on the canvas. Expanding from the initial symbolism of the wave, I focused on visually representing energy (life and death) as a force in both form and shape and color. 2. “Organized Cacophony,” paper and paint on canvas, 20 x16 x 1, © Erin Kuhn 2020 - I cut paper into all the various kinks, coils, swells and ripples of sound waves. I played with the tension of cacophony and the desire to organize it by utilizing “knolling” - a process used in photography to arrange items in a visually pleasing way.      
I drew Andromeda, cut her from paper, carved each link in her chains with blades and gilded them with paint. I set her swinging across a canvas and framed with her paper chains. Her resistance is her beauty, unrelenting and powerful, unapologetic and eternal. 2. Fireproof Hearts- Powerful women are often cast as witches, and succinctly punished and persecuted in the tradition of repression. The term “Witch,” comes from wicce, a term for a wise person and healer. Cunning women, solitary women who are able to care for themselves, have often been seen as a threat to patriarchal society, and the term used in a double edged insult and accusation. Witches were midwives, healers, visionaries, some witches were real witches and practiced their spirituality, and some were just bold women that were resistant. To resist in a time when society systemically suppresses independence and strength in women is an act of bravery. I created this piece to celebrate resistant women. Our fireproof hearts, our beautiful and indomitable spirits, our defiance is all a beautiful display of resistance in a culture and society that fears and methodically subjugates women. 3. Queen of Cups- In tarot, the Queen of Cups is a figure that reveres all aspects of creation, loves and embraces everyone and is moved by the tragedies and beauties of life. She is a symbol of nurturing love, compassion and creation. I created this piece out of fascination and awe for the multitudes and complexities women contain and deal with. Not all women are mothers, nor are they vessels for creation. Women are often painted with the broad brush of softness, sexuality, and patient nurturing characteristics. I am drawn to the tropes women are trapped in, and the reaction from society when they do not fit into the stereotypes dealt. In this piece, the Queen of Cups fills up the frame impressively in her stature, her scale formidable and unapologetic. She delights in her own abundance, which she creates for herself. The pitcher pours into an overflowing cup: plenitude created by and for herself. I created this piece from a digital drawing I cut into a large vinyl stencil and painted with many hues of metallic golds. The model is based on Princess Marie Georgine- who modeled famously for Bouguereau’sBirth of Venus. I have a deep interest in rescuing women from the male gaze of art history and giving them their own celebration in my work. They are celebrated for their independence and power, their ability to be both strong and soft, indomitable and vulnerable, for the overflowing cup of their individuality. 4. Catcall- In 2014 a resistant woman, Shoshana Roberts, created a video with Rob Bliss called “10 hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman,” which went viral. It was the kind of thing I wished I had seen when I was younger. From middle school on cat calling was a burden I experienced regularly, and was one of many unspoken things I felt resigned to accept as a girl burgeoning into a woman. There seemed no safe nor effective rebuttal that didn’t illicit more anger from the entitled men who told me to smile or worse. Growing up there wasn’t much of public discourse on it either. That video was a light for me, that women can resist the resignation of our fate to be victimized methodically, systematically within a patriarchy. Artists have an opportunity to hold the mirror up to society, to create work that exposes both the wild injustices and the insidious micro aggressions women face. I created this piece in honor of my experiences, which are also shared collective experiences. To show a strong female figure flanked by predatory big cats completely alone in the wild. 5. Goddess In Me- “Yeah I got boy problems, that’s the human in me/ Bling Bling, then I solve ‘em, that’s the Goddess in me.” - Lizzo, “Truth Hurts.” Lizzo’s song lyrics inspired the title for this piece, which celebrates the inner Goddess in every woman- a force of strength and resistance which has carried us through millennia of cultural, religious, and economic suppression. I drew and cut the paper shapes that rest on the tone-on-tone pink canvas. Painted foliage frames the central figure: the outline of a self-possessed woman layered over an inner goddess with outstretched arms. Resistance is the refusal to comply with something. Every act of self love and empowerment for women is an act of resistance. In a world where women are supposed to be beautiful and meek, but not know they are beautiful and always be humble or be punished- every single act of self possession and self love is a healing gesture to the millennia of insidious and pervasive abuse women have suffered. I am so excited to be a part of the "Destiny: Local to Global Perspectives" exhibit at Merseles Studios in the Jersey City Theater Center this upcoming February. "Destiny" will showcase 16 artists featuring work that explores the themes of Destiny and Identity. My piece, "Duality" will be there among some fantastic artists I am thrilled to work with, The show is curated by Atim Annette Oton. Important dates: February 7th, 2020: 6pm-9pm Opening Reception. Please come! February 28th, 2020: 6pm-9pm Closing Reception. These are free events and all are welcome. Please see JCTC's website for more info: www.jctcenter.org/e/destiny-art-opening-88960494233/   |
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