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Erin M. Riley will talk about the tapestries leading up to and since her 2025 solo exhibit Life Looks Like a House for a Few Hours at P.P.O.W Gallery in New York, NY.
Your registration acknowledgement will include the Zoom link. The program is also recorded, with a video link that will be sent on Sunday or Monday. The recording is available to watch for 2 months.
About the Speaker: Erin M. Riley (b.1985) received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at P·P·O·W in New York; Brooklyn Museum; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Museion, Bolzano, Italy; among others. Riley’s works belong to the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum of Art at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; among others. She received a United States Artists Fellowship Grant in 2021, an American Academy of Arts & Letters Art Purchase Prize in 2021, and has completed residencies at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, and the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY. In 2022, Riley’s work was featured in the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, manifesto of fragility. Recent solo exhibitions include The Invisible Third, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA; watering false flowers, cadet capela, Paris, France; and Look Back at It, mother’s tankstation, London, UK. Riley’s work is currently on view in the group exhibition Wool. Silk. Resistance. at Museum of Applied Art, Frankfurt, Germany. In her review of Riley’s 2025 solo exhibition with P·P·O·W, Life Looks Like a House for a Few Hours, Annabel Keenan wrote in Frieze Magazine, “There’s an element of triumph in Riley’s work: even if her images reveal moments when she had no control over her life, she has persevered and regained agency through every stitch.” Riley is currently an artist in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Website: https://www.erinmriley.com
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