@erincurrierfineart
erincurrierfineart.com

The scene:
We are sitting on the front patio of Erin’s home and studio in her adorable bungalow community. It feels like a protective nest - and the birdsong attests to that. We are enshrined by climbing rose bushes that will bloom in the hundreds soon, 10 or so talismans from best friend/artist Cynthia Cook, and Erin’s early collage art of buddhist deities. Join us for a very thoughtful conversation on supportive artist communities, how we see others, and our power of perspective about life.

Highlights:
+ First art show in 1998, at the coffee shop she worked at, using their trash
+ “The impermanence of phenomena”
+ Started by making portraits of people using their own trash
+ Collage was her strong suit, so she leaned into painting to get better
+ Her true love is drawing - all of her artwork begins in sketchbooks / travel journals
+ Scaling from a 6-inch sketchbook to a 7-foot painting
+ Began drawing before she could speak or walk
+ Using art to get better grades in law and physics classes
+ Using drawing to communicate across language barriers
+ BFA in Theater Design: studied costume design, set painting and design
+ Dzogchen buddhist meditation practice
+ Artists who say they “paint for themselves” vs. intentionally sharing with the public
+ All art is created through the filter of our own perception - something only we can see that way. We are idealizing it by choosing what to put forth of it, which is a political act because we’re creating the kind of world we want to live in
+ Her art is about humans that she wants other humans to know about
+ She wants others to see the beauty she sees in others
+ She paints people how she sees them - their highest self
+ When you love someone unconditionally, you’re seeing what they could be - their highest potential
+ New Mexico artists support and encourage one another - they succeed together
+ Artists promoting each other by sharing art, journalists, gallerists and collecting each others’ art
+ Older artists nurturing younger artists - shoutout to @tobymorfinart
+ Contemporary artists who have learned from their ancestors and modernized it @rosebsimpson @romeroartprojects @arthurlopezsantos
+ The value system of depth and heart, family and ancestors, craft and spirit
+ Creating for the purpose of showing us all of our similarities
+ Traveling reveals our commonalities far out-weigh our differences
+ The more open we are, the more open others are
+ Laughing off the stresses
+ Treating everyone equally and with respect and interest - filmmakers to garbage collectors
+ Interviewing is like drawing - subjects feel honored that someone gives them time
+ Having more ideas than time, and being ok with that
+ Living every day as your own, how and with whom you want to spend it
+ We have the power to curate our lives by being kind to others
+ Be how you want the world to respond to you
+ Complimenting others as a way of reflecting the beauty you see in them back to them

A taste:
“I feel grateful…for my friends, for my family. [...] …the beauty of the morning light and the sound of the birds or to be able to have a cup of coffee, like wow, how lucky am I?”

Favorite saying:
“It’s another beautiful day, what do you want to do with it, how do you wa

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