ONE FINE ARTIST
A Statement:
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​"I am an artist as I am a person: an observer, collector, and researcher into the pleasures, horrors, 'nones,' and 'alls' of human experiences. My interests in the Home are considered through Feminist and Surrealist narratives. Fractured realities on hard, ephemeral surfaces come to life via frenetically applied oils. Results reveal humorous, disgusting, spiritual, and used aspects overlapping our mundane world. Myths devoid of reason and folklore without moralities reconcile as variations of myself converse and play. I hope viewers come to gnosis here."
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A Biography:
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Erin Szturm (she/her) is just finishing her BFA at UOttawa. She specializes in painting and drawing, using oils as her favoured medium. Erin often combines rural scenes with more urban and personalized contexts as she herself was uprooted from Northern Ontario and her hometown of Thunder Bay - where she observed the wilds of forestry, farming, and freshwater - to the political-cultural hub that is Ottawa - traversing galleries, museums, and parks. No matter the setting, she seeks someplace quiet to introspect.
Her love of natural sciences, varying histories, and man-made fictions (on the screen, in fine works, or within literature) contrast and combine as she examines her existence and these created realities. Inspirations she draws from range from artists like ZdzisÅ‚aw BeksiÅ„ski, Edward Povey, Mamma Anderson, and Margeaux Williamson; movements like Realism, Romanticism, and Surrealism; books like Schwartz and Gammell's Scary Stories to tell in the Dark or Junji Ito’s short works; internet ARGs or Unfiction; and the work of skillful directors such as Ari Aster, Brea Grant, and Alan Resnick.
Regardless of ever changing and developing inspirations, Szturm will adapt and evolve in hopes to support herself with the art she loves, show in galleries, and teach others what skills she has so they may live beyond her.