Thicket | Juan Arango Palacios, Josh Dihle, Anastasia Komar, Mevlana Lipp, Wen Liu, Alex McAdoo, Anna Ruth, Krzysztof Strzelecki, Ena Swansea, Erin Woodbrey
New York
July 11 – August 16, 2024
Erin Woodbrey
Illuminators for the Geologic Afterlife - 2022
Mixed-media light installation with found objects
Variable dimensions
Erin Woodbrey
Illuminators for the Geologic Afterlife - 2022
Mixed-media light installation with found objects
Variable dimensions
Detail view
Erin Woodbrey
Five Containers and Three Lids (In Two Parts), 2022-23
Shadowgram Anthotype, cabbage and beetroot on paper
60.9 x 91.4 cm / 24 x 36 in
Erin Woodbrey
Eleven Opaque Containers (Two Parts), 2021
Shadowgram Anthotype, spinach on paper
60.9 x 91.4 cm / 24 x 36 in
Erin Woodbrey
The Carrier Bag Series, 2024
Single-use plastic, metal, and paper containers, foam, ash, plaster, and gauze
Variable dimensions
Erin Woodbrey
The Gardener (From the Carrier Bag Series), 2023
Single-use plastic containers, plant labels, ash, plaster, gauze, and steel wire
142.25 x 51 x 63.5 cm / 56 x 20 x 25 in
Erin Woodbrey
Waters (From The Carrier Bag Series), 2023
Single-use containers, ash, plaster, gauze, wire
137 x 25 x 33 cm | 55 x 10 x 13 in
Erin Woodbrey
Milks (From the Carrier Bag Series), 2023
Single-use plastic and glass containers, ash, plaster, gauze, and steel wire
109 x 56 x 38 cm | 43 x 22 x 15 in
Erin Woodbrey
Cities in Dust (Corner Piece), 2022
Found objects encased in wood ash, plaster, and gauze
5.1 x 5.1 x 4.5 m / 17 ft x 17 ft x 15 ft
Erin Woodbrey
Cities in Dust (Corner Piece), 2022
Found objects encased in wood ash, plaster, and gauze
5.1 x 5.1 x 4.5 m / 17 ft x 17 ft x 15 ft
(Detail View)
Erin Woodbrey
of the Sun (Baton Rouge, LA), 2022
Found objects, and fragments of plastic, paper, glass, foam, aluminum, tin, and organic matter
Variable dimensions
Erin Woodbrey
of the Sun (Baton Rouge, LA), 2022
Found objects, and fragments of plastic, paper, glass, foam, aluminum, tin, and organic matter
Variable dimensions
Detail View
(Detail View)
BORN
1985, Portland, Maine, United States
SELECTED SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
Solo Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA (Upcoming)
2024
Gardeners for a Geologic Afterlife, Goethe-Institut, Boston, MA, USA
2023
Here After, with Megan Biddle, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2022
Wilder Alison + Erin Woodbrey, Expo Chicago, Gaa Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
of the Sun, Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
2021
Beacon (Walking to a place I have or have not been to before.), 201 Telephone Box Gallery, St. Andrews, Scotland
2019
The Fragment Series, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA USA
2018
Quill Isn't Staying Now, Gaa Gallery, Project Space, Cologne, Germany
2017
Time Mothers, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Leg, Limber, Lumber Limb, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA, USA
2016
Material Studies, Arena Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2015
Air of Another Planet, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA
2014
Undercoat, Gallery 10, Truro, MA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Yušká: Uncoil, curated by Erin Genia, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2023
Friend of the Artist, A.I.R Biennial (as part of Peer Review), curated by Eriola Pira, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Biennial Exhibition, selected by Misa Jeffereis and Sarah Montross, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, USA
YWC x Good Children, curated by Yes We Cannibal, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
Points of Return, curated by David Cass and Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA, USA
2022
Sensing Place, curated by Justine Kablack and Anna Queen, University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, Maine, USA
Points of Return, A La Luz, curated by Joseph Calleja, Luce Choules, Inés García, Begoña Izquierdo, Anna Macleod, Miranda Massier, Elizabeth Monoian, Robert Ferry, Yasmine Ostendorf, organized by David Cass and Gonzaga Gómez-Cortázar Romero, (Online exhibition)
Lichtung, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Sister City, (in collaboration with Lizzie Thomson), curated by Andrea Przygonski, Praxis Art Space, Adelaide, Australia
Assembly - Emily Carris-Duncan, E. Saffronia Downing, MCXT, Landon Newton, olivier, Erin Woodbrey, SPACE, Portland, ME, USA
Celebration, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Curb Alert, curated by Annelies Kamen, hosted by Cosmos Karl, online + site-specific installation, Sudbury, MA, USA
Castle Hill Celebrates 50 Years, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
Together With, Farm Projects, Wellfleet, MA, USA
Perfect For Those Who Arent - Graham Collins, Frank Johnson, Helen O'Leary, Erin Woodbrey, Teffia Gallery, Kingston, NY, USA
2021
Dazzleship, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA, USA
Found, Formed, Fused, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, USA
EXPO CHGO, Online Fair, Gaa Gallery
2020
(im)materiality, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Home as Situation, Bolivar Art Gallery, School of Art + Visual Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA (Online Exhibition)
Maine Biennial, selected by Nina Johnson-Milewski + Kate McNamara Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, USA
Templates for Public Art III, curated by Kate Conlon and Boyang Hou Limited Time Engagement, Chicago, IL, USA (Online Exhibition, Site Specific Installation + Print Publication)
2019
zeit-geist-zeit, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA USA
Ain't No Use, organized by Samantha Bohatsch and Annelies Kamen, Crybaby, Berlin, Germany
Party Line, 201 Telephone Box Gallery, St. Andrews, Scotland
2018
Supplemental Light, SÍM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hold, Run, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Maine Biennial, selected by Kate Green + Robin K. Williams Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, USA
Dani (Leventhal) ReStack, Gary Kuehn + Erin Woodbrey, Code Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
Concurrent Realities, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
it went like this; the sky was beautiful on fire, selected by Meg Onli, Vermont College of Art, Montpelier, VT, USA
2017
Out of the Blue, Greylight Projects, Hoensbroek, Netherlands
2016
Internationale Papierkunstbiennale, Haacht, Belgium
Group Exhibition, Gaa Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Poetics of the Landscape, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Summertime, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA
(Sub)Urban, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA
2015
Group Exhibition, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA
A Call For Drawings, University of the Arts Utrecht, Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Lange Nieuwstraat, Utrecht, Netherlands
Earth to Earth, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA, USA
2014
Clouds, ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA, USA
Reflections of Now, Gallery at Castle Hill Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA, USA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA
Beyond the Screen, Deans Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Starwalker, Threewalls, Chicago, IL, USA
2013
Transitions, Schingoethe Museum and Art Gallery at Aurora University, Aurora, IL, USA
Video Trail Mix, Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
New Narratives, International Print Center, New York, NY, USA
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books: One: Selected Works, La Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, Spain
Paper - Tradition and Experiment, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012
Printmaking Exhibition, Art Works Gallery, New Bedford, MA, USA
Black, White & Read, Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Fresh Paint, New Art Center, Newton, MA, USA
2011
For Love, Not Money, Tallinn Print Triennial, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Boston Printmakers: North American Print Biennial, The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, USA
Imprints, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, USA
Transferred, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, VA, USA
2010
New Prints: Winter 2010, International Print Center, New York, NY, USA
New Prints: Part II, Meyerson Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Juried Exhibition, Printmakers of Cape Cod, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, USA
Food & Form, Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Recent Gifts, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
2009
Monumental Ideas in a Miniature Book, (Traveling Exhibition 2009-2012), Southern Graphics Council Global Implications, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, The University of Granada, Spain, China Academy of Art, Hang Zhou, China, Proyecto Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2008
Animalia, Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale, NY, USA
Printed Matter, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, USA
LO! A Collection of Secreted Tales and Objects of Wonder, The Museum of Small Finds, at the Machines with Magnets Gallery, Pawtucket, RI, USA
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2024
Artist in Residence, Studio 170, Goethe-Institut, Boston, MA, USA
2023
Visiting Artist, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
2022
Artist in Residence, Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA USA
2021
Artist in Residence Carrizozo, Carrizozo, NM, USA
2020
Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA, USA
A4A Capacity Building Grant, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA, USA
2019
Artist in Residence, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
2018
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Traveling Fellowship
Visiting Artist, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Zürich, Switzerland
Artist in Residence, Samband íslenskra myndlistarmanna (SÍM), Reykjavik, Iceland
2017
Artist In Residence, Gaa Gallery Project Space, Cologne, Germany
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT, USA
Visiting Artist Cape Cod Community College, Barnstable, MA, USA
2016
Beers London - Contemporary Visions VII - Shortlist
Artist In Residence, Arena Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Artist in Residence, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co.Clare, Ireland
2014
Finalist for Fulbright - Nehru Fellowship
2012
New Artist Society Trustee, Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA 2007 Boston Printmakers Print Biennial - Jury’s Commendation
2007
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts- Print and Paper Area Award
EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - MFA, 2014
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA - BFA, 2007
Tufts University, Boston, Medford, MA - BFA, 2007
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, Certificate, 2002
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA
Hebron Academy Permanent Collection, Hebron, ME, USA
Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
Meyers College of Art at the University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
Fundación´ace Art Collection, Proyecto’ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Southern Graphics Council Archives at the University of Mississippi, University Museum, Oxford MS, USA
Women’s Studio Workshop, Kingston, New York, NY, USA
We are thrilled to announce our participation in the 2022 edition of EXPO CHICAGO with a two-person presentation by Wilder Alison and Erin Woodbrey! Our booth will be featured in the Exposure Sector curated by Humberto Moro and the fair will run from April 7 - 10, 2022, at the Chicago Navy Pier.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Lichtung, a group exhibition featuring Melissa Brown, Angelina Gualdoni, Adam Helms, Hipkiss, Heidi Howard, Kaylie Kaitschuck, Anina Major, Zoe McGuire, Hélène Padoux, Dan Schein, James Everett Stanley, Elizabeth Tibbetts, Lumin Wakoa, Autumn Wallace, and Erin Woodbrey. On view through July 3, Lichtung will open with a reception on Friday, April 1, from 4 - 7 pm at Gaa Gallery, 494 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA.
Gaa Gallery Provincetown is pleased to present The Fragment Series, a sculptural installation by Erin Woodbrey, in the Gaa Gallery Provincetown Project Space. Beginning August 30, the exhibition runs through September 29, with an opening reception with the artist on Friday, August 30 from 6-9pm, at 494 Commercial Street, entrance Howland Street.
Gaa Gallery Wellfleet is pleased to present zeit-geist-zeit, a group exhibition of paintings and sculpture from artists whose works engage with thematic and cultural concerns of time and place. This exhibition opens with a public reception on Saturday, August 3 from 6 - 8 pm at Gaa Gallery Wellfleet, located at 230B Main Street. Exhibited artists include Kate Bancroft, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrice Aphrodite Helmar, Heidi Howard, Arghavan Khosravi, Gary Kuehn, Judy Pfaff, Johanna Robinson, James Everett Stanley, Erin Woodbrey, and Peter Zimmermann.
Gaa Gallery Project Space Cologne is pleased to present Quill Isn’t Staying Now, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Dani (Leventhal) ReStack and Erin Woodbrey. The Gaa Gallery Project Space Cologne is located at Große Brinkgasse 8, 50672 Cologne, with parking available across the street at the Parkhaus Bazaar de Cologne. The opening reception is Saturday, April 14 from 5 - 8 pm. This exhibition runs concurrently with Art Cologne and will be open daily Saturday, April 14 through Monday, April 23, 10 am - 6 pm. Closed Wednesday, April 18. Open by appointment April 24 - June 30.
Congratulations to Erin Woodbrey who recently received a 2018 Traveling Fellowship from Tufts University's School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since 1899, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts has awarded Travelling Fellowships to outstanding alumni in pursuit of further developing their practice through research and travel. Recipients are granted funding as well as the opportunity to compete for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Former Fellows include Omer Fast, Ellen Gallagher, Nan Goldin, and Mike and Doug Starn. This autumn and spring of 2018 Erin will travel to Switzerland work on a new project called, Thigmomorphogenesis.
Leg, Limber, Lumber, Limb, solo exhibition at Cape Cod Community College, Higgins Art Gallery, Tilden Arts Center at Cape Cod Community College, 2240 Iyannough Road, West Barnstable, MA, October 5 - November 6, 2017.
Gaa Gallery Provincetown is pleased to present Time Mothers, a new exhibition of work from Erin Woodbrey, on view from September 1 - October 8 at 494 Commercial Street, with an opening reception Friday, September 1, from 6 - 9pm.
Erin Woodbrey, Group Exhibition, Beneath Metropolis, November 4, 2016 – January 8, 2017, Blue Star Museum of Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
Erin Woodbrey, Solo Exhibition, Material Studies,October 28, 2016 – November, 12, 2016, Arena Gallery, 27 Parliament Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Poetics of the Landscape, a group exhibition featuring Sophia Hamann, Heather MacKenzie and Erin Woodbrey. Poetics of the Landscape will be featured at Gaa Gallery’s new space in Provincetown, located at 494 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA. The exhibition will be open May 6 - 21 and will run concurrently with Appearances: Provincetown Green Arts Festival. An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 7 from 4 - 6pm.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming group exhibition, featuring works from Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Rodney Dickson, Kenneth Dunne, Sophia Hamann, Barry Stone, Ena Swansea and Erin Woodbrey.
The exhibition will run concurrently with Art Cologne and will be the gallery's first exhibition in Germany. The Gaa Gallery Project Space is located at Große Brinkgasse 8, 50670 Cologne, Germany and will be open from Sunday, April 10 - Tuesday, April 12 and Thursday, April 14 - Sunday, April 17 from 10am - 7pm with a reception and brunch Saturday, April 16 from 10am - 2pm. Parking is available across the street at the Parkhaus Bazaar de Cologne on Große Brinkgasse 11.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out for last night's opening. Thoralf Knobloch - Paintings and Erin Woodbrey - Air of Another Planet will be up through July 19.
Gaa gallery is pleased to announce two upcoming exhibitions with Thoralf Knobloch and Erin Woodbrey. Knobloch’s Paintings, and Woodbrey’s Air of Another Planet will run concurrently from July 2 - 19. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday July 2, from 6 - 8 pm at Gaa Gallery 230B Main Street, Wellfleet.
