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GALLERY: JOSHUA LINER - Erin M. Riley

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2015 · Entertainment

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Joshua Liner Gallery presents Darkness Lies 
Ahead, a solo exhibition of new 
handwoven tapestries by Brooklyn-based 
artist Erin M. Riley. This will be the artist’s 
first exhibition with the gallery and will 
display the largest work from the artist to 
date, with tapestries over eight feet wide. 
The artist will be in attendance for the 
opening reception on Thursday, May 7, 
2015.

When considering tapestries and textile 
arts, images of pastoral landscapes and 
decorative designs come to mind. Erin M. 
Riley sources contemporary imagery from 
the Internet, exploring the millennial 
fascination for young women and self-
portrait photography, colloquially referred 
to as “selfies.” Riley explains, “I grew up on 
the Internet, so for me nudity is very 
normal… I happened upon a Twitter 
account that was nothing but images of a 
girl in her underwear in the bathroom 
mirror. I was fascinated by the way my 
generation was searching to connect and 
remind each other that we exist moment by 
moment.” Riley’s Nudes 24 depicts a young 
woman in a fleeting instant capturing an 
image of her mirrored body with an 
iPhone. The selfie discloses a fraction of 
the woman’s external identity and serves as 
a reminder of the human need to exist and 
connect. The artist elaborates, “So much of 
our interactions as young people are spent 
online. The selfie for me was a reminder 
that we are flesh.”

Born in 1985 in Massachusetts, Erin M. Riley 
received her BFA from Massachusetts 
College of Art and Design in 2007 and her 
MFA from Tyler School of Art in 2009. Riley 
currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 
Selected solo exhibitions include: 
Something Precious, Soze Gallery, Los 
Angeles, CA (2015); The Pain Comes in 
Waves, OGAARD Gallery, Oakland, CA 
(2014); and Forgotten in a File, Guerrero 
Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2012). Group 
exhibitions include: December Exhibition at 
Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (2014); Summer 
Mixer at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY 
(2014); and Fon Seks, University of Illinois 
Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, IL (2013

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