Artist's Statement:

Today’s globalized, multinational, international, multilingual, on-line, on-the-grid, for-profit, fuel-driven, free-trading world of satellite-dished-out telenovelas that force feed fast food, Kevlar, Teflon, Zoloft, Botox, and tomato sauce, is one of increasingly fierce conflicts of interest and interest rates, between the conquerors and conquered, dominators and dominated, capitalists and workers, employers and unemployed, overdeveloped and underdeveloped, overweight and underfed, first-class and so-called Third World, oppressors and oppressed, and the blessed and the damned. As an artist born into a system which represents the former, I consequently seek to know and to make known the plight of the ill-understood latter: the nameless, faceless, voiceless, and marginalized, who, as Eduardo Galeano so eloquently puts it (We Say No), “Make history from below and from inside rather than to continue to suffer history from above and from outside.”P>

As a medium for my work, I have chosen materials that are readily available: the refuse and the packaging of products produced and consumed by every nation, for every nation, and translated in every language, on the planet. I travel the world’s streets collecting the discarded with which to portray the discarded: the women, the mothers, the martyrs,the mothers of martyrs, barrio dwellers, day laborers, forced laborers, slave-wage laborers, shoeshine boys, lady boys, schoolgirls, gang girls, cholos, guerilla poets, Sandinistas, Zapatistas, Chavistas, the indigenous, the indigent, imprisoned, objectified, nullified, vilified, unfortified, unrecognized, silent, forgotten, and ordinary. I especially attempt to lend voice to those who fight for human rights, social change, and who resist unjust established orders. I thus seek to discover humanity and to transform reality by humanizing it through art.

Erin Currier

Born: 1975, Haverhill, MA

Home: Santa Fe, NM

Education: College of Santa Fe, BFA Costume Design

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Selected One Person Exhibitions:

2009: “Schoolyards,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

2009: “Schoolgirls and Schoolboys” Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2009: “Portenas,” Masottatorres Contemporanea, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008: “Miss World,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

2007: “America Below,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

2007: “In Solidarity,” Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy, Washington D.C.

2006: “From Vietnam to Venezuela, Bandits and Beauty Queens,” Parks Gallery, Taos

2005: “Mothers and Martyrs,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

2005: “Small Works,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

2004: “The Other America,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

2004: “Selected Works,” TOPS Gallery, Malibu, CA

2003: “Liberation Series,” College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2003: “Liberation Series,” Parks Gallery, Taos, NM

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2009: “Salvo”, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Fransisco, CA

2007-08: Masottatorres Contemporanea, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008: “FOCA Show,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2007-08: “Originals,” National Museum of Women in the Arts, Harwood Museum, NM

2007: “Lifting the Veil: New Mexico Women and the Tricultural Myth,” Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM

2005-08: MJ Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005: “Heroes,” Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2005: “La Madre Poderosa,” Harwood Museum, Taos, NM

2003: “FOCA Exhibition,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2003: “El Corazon,” Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM

2002: “El Dia de la Muerte,” Martinez Hacienda, Taos, NM

1999-2006 Tops Gallery, Malibu, CA

Selected Books and Publications:

100 Artists of the Southwest, Douglas Bullis, Schiffer, 2006

Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire, Peter McLaren, Nathalia Jaramillo, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006

Capitalists and Conquerors, Peter McLaren, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005

Teaching Against Global Capitalism, Peter McLaren, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005

Buenos Aires Herald, 2009

Pagina 12, Argentina, 2009

Paseante Extranerjero, Argentina, 2009

Raw Guide, Argentina, 2009

THE Magazine, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2004, 2003, 1999

Santa Fean Magazine, 2009, 2007, 2004, 2003

Welt der Frau Magazine, Austria, 2008

Washington Post, 2007

Tele Sur, 2007

Pacifica Radio, 2007

Bottom Line, 2006

Malibu Magazine, 2005

Art News, 2004

Atomica, 2004

American Style Magazine, 2003

Utne Reader, 2002

National Public Radio, 2002, 2000

New Mexico Magazine, 2002

Su Casa Magazine, 2001

Selected Collections

Bernardo Bertolucci

Sherilynn Bevel

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy

Lisa Bonet

President Hugo Chavez

John Cusack

Joan Cusack

Whoopi Goldberg

Mr. & Mrs. Mel Gibson

Linda Hamilton

Coretta Scott King

Julia Roberts

Mr. & Mrs. Carlos Santana

Martin Sheen

Dean Stockwell