The Roof, The Arch, The Octagon
Saturday October 21, 2023
6:00-8:00pm

Work by Aaron Pexa, Hildegard Hanson, Erin Morrison, and performances by Willa Van Nostrand and Derek Delehunt.
In the Fall of 2023, I was invited to join a wonderful cohort of five artists in Tusa, Sicily for a three-week residency program.

Set in a preserved medieval town in the hills and founded by Alfonsina Bellomo and artist Serena Perrone, I produced a number of prints using their incredible Lazzarini Firenze etching press.

As If
April 2023
Ted Sanford Gallery, Charles Wright Academy

A temporary wall-work installation of slip-cast ceramic produced while in residency at Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, WA.

“As If” reflects upon growing up in a period of extreme mass consumerism after a boom in American Markets in the early 90s. The phrase was used frequently by the character Cher Horowitz, in the 1995 film Clueless, a parody of this time.
These two words, a preposition joined with a conjunction, are grammatically two elements that should never immediately be put together. Collectively it is a statement of complete resistance and a denial of a language system. 

Don’t Believe Everything You Think
April 22 - June 16, 2023
The Brand Library and Art Center

Featured Artists:
Sacha Halona Baumann, Adrienne DeVine, Alexandra Grant, Iva Gueorguieva, Bettina Hubby, Janna Ireland, Galia Linn, Amanda Maciel Antunes, Erin Morrison, Jacky Perez, Alicia Piller, Madaline Riley, Elena Stonaker, Camilla Taylor

Don’t Believe Everything You Think, is an exhibition that explores how artists manage the universal impulse of negative self-talk through their artistic practice. Working across multiple disciplines: painting, collage, sculpture, photography, performance, video, and sound, the 14 featured artists exert concerted effort to push past, accept, or prevail over their own negative self-talk. Through the sanative process of their art—from genesis, to creation, and finally presentation—they have learned that it is best to not always believe everything you think.

Rivers and Mountains
November 5 - December 23, 2022
Oolong Gallery

Featured Artists:
Anna Garner, Elisabet Davidsdottir, David Benjamin Sherry, Marc Grubstein, and Michael Lundgren; Lindsey Nobel, Matthew Taylor Williams, Pat O’Neill, Erin Morrison, Dev Harlan; and Brian Kauppi.

Oolong Gallery is pleased to present our third and final group show of the six month launch starting last June. Rivers and Mountains appropriates the historic 1962 poetry book by John Ashbery not only for its brilliant cover by Michael Peters, but also to emphasize poetic boldness, nature, and lines running through the show. Oolong has launched with a range of art mediums, styles, and content but puts the non-linear reception to art first over politic and market values. Rivers and Mountains is an earth inspired photo and sculpture show, with some masterful digressions into relief work, collage, video, and an addendum of smaller paintings from southern Chile near Patagonia.

LAMMA HOUSE
Private Residence, Hung Shing Ye Beach
Hong Kong, SAR
May 2021

Featured Artists:
Sophie Tianxin Chen, Katy Cowan, Trulee Hall , Tommy Kha, Meike Legler and Kottie Paloma, Thomas Linder, Galia Linn, Leila McMillan, Rebecca Morris, Erin Morrison, Fay Ray, Nicolas Shake, Stephanie Teng, Evan Trine, Kim Ye

LAMMAHOUSE was an experimental international exhibition featuring 14 artists from China, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, the UK, and the US. Its audience, no one and everyone.
The event was hosted by The Contemporary Art Digest, and curated by Erin Morrison and Evan Trine.

site credit: Michael Young

Handball Court
Virtual Exhibition, March 2021
Los Angeles, CA 

Featured Artists: Molly Larkey, Wade Schuster, Adam Miller, Ardeshir Tabrizi, Nick Aguayo, Spencer Lewis, Lenz Geerk, Amanda Ross-Ho, Evan Trine,

Curated and installed by Evan Trine.

COLONY
September 7 - October 5, 2019
Ochi Projects, Los Angeles

Colony is the third solo exhibition by Erin Morrison for Ochi Projects. She presents a new body of painted bas-relief sculptures influenced by historical currency, produced in the European settled colonies of the New World.

"Greeting the viewer upon entry is a three-panel mural depicting 15 snakes. Writhing in rows and woven together, the serpents create a mesmerizing, undulating patterned cloth that recalls the deceptive serpent of Genesis. Cast in tinted gypsum and rendered in low relief, the tessellation references histories of weaving and domestic labor, while evoking the sinister undertones surrounding snakes throughout mythology. While some stories connect the serpent to humankind’s fall from paradise, many more stories have placed similar blame on the true root of all evil: Money.”

- Excerpt of press release by Don Edler

An Homage to Hollis Benton
May 24 - June 24, 2018
Over the Influence, Los Angeles

Over the Influence is pleased to announce the opening of a group exhibition curated by Aaron Moulton paying homage to the formidable gallerist, Hollis Benton, and the influence he's had on generations of Los Angeles artists and gallerists.

Featured Artists:
Kathryn Andrews, Dan Attoe, Mike Bouchet, Ellen Carey, Vuk Cosic, Cayetano Ferrer, Clement von Franckenstein, Sayre Gomez, Robert Graham, Trent Harris, James Havard, Gregor Hildebrandt, Evan Holloway, Alex Israel, Paa Joe, Matt Johnson, Lazaros, Joep van Liefland, Mike Z Morrell, Erin Morrison, Mark Mothersbaugh, Patrick Nagel, LeRoy Neiman, Ry Rocklen, Ed Ruscha, Anja Salonen, Camille Schefter, Max Hooper Schneider, Peter Shire, Don Sorenson, Alexis Smith, Mungo Thomson, Andy Warhol, Jennifer West, Jonas Wood, Robert Yarber

Over the Influence Los Angeles is proud to present this unprecedented homage to Los Angeles gallerist Hollis Benton. In 1980 the Hollis Benton Gallery opened its doors on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Architect Michael Graves gave the architectural concept pro bono. Decked out in chrome, marble surfaces, and harsh accent walls; it was a loud bullhorn for the day’s visual culture. In its nearly ten-year run the gallery broke all the rules for selling out and became an aspirational pioneer in the process.

DEATH SHOW
October 31 - December 10, 2018
ELEVATOR MONDAYS, Los Angeles

Featured Artists:
Ian James, Erin Morrison, Molly Surazhsky, and Pamela Valfer

ELEVATOR MONDAYS is excited to announce DEATH SHOW, the second chapter of THE GREAT FILTER TRILOGY. Building on the narrative arch that began with our previous exhibition, EX NIHILO, DEATH SHOW explores the long-term repercussions, or Planetary Feedback that may face a technologically sophisticated civilization that harvests energy from the finite natural resources of its biosphere. In light of the recent IPCC report on Climate Change it has become unreasonable to ignore the coming mortal impact of global warming, this exhibition attempts to serve as a reminder that all stories must end.

ELEVATOR MONDAYS was an artist-run curatorial project inside a converted freight elevator founded by Don Edler. The project focused on bringing together working artists in a social exhibition space to foster dialogue and community through exhibitions and special programing.

Soft Pretzel
October 6 - 28, 2018
Vacation Gallery, New York , NY

Featured Artists:
Tanya Brodsky, Rives Granade, Nasim Hantehzadeh, Lilian Martinez, Daniel McKee, Erin Morrison, Claudia Parducci, Ben Sanders, and James Seward

Presented by Ochi Projects (LA), Soft Pretzel featured works investigating sculptural forms and perceived tactility. Evaluating our ability to anticipate sensory experiences as they are conveyed through visual cues, each work explored implied softness, rigidity, dimension, weight, and movement.

Vacation Gallery was a timeshare located in New York City’s Lower East Side that hosts contemporary spaces from around the world on a rotating monthly basis. The gallery fosters global dialogue and diverse programming from its network of international cultural producers, paving a new hybrid model for collaborative exhibition and exchange.