{"id":17967,"date":"2000-12-25T18:41:13","date_gmt":"2000-12-26T00:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=17967"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T16:23:58","slug":"erin-coleman-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/erin-coleman-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Coleman-Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Erin Coleman-Cruz received her MFA in Studio Art from Northern Illinois University and her Bachelors in Art Education from Goshen College in Indiana. She moved to Salt Lake City in 2011 where she practices and teaches design and art.
\nBoth Coleman-Cruz\u2019s art-making and design practices range between personal narratives and public collaborative works that address issues such as creative re-use, sustainable design, domestic space, wearable arts, and social issues pertaining to women and gender. Her skills and interests include teaching, museum and exhibition curation, electronic portfolio development and digital collections, and collaborative projects. Coleman-Cruz serves on the board of the Sugar House Farmers Market as Education Outreach Coordinator and leads programing for children to teach them about where their food comes from while learning skills for upcycling used materials into art and craft. She exhibits locally and nationally, and made her international debut in 2011 with a work of collaborative performance art, The Merkeyna Coif Boutique. Recent exhibitions include \u201cI\u2019m thinking of changing my smile\u201d at the Dole Mansion in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and \u201cConfluence\u201d at Unhinged SLC.<\/p>\n

Artist Statement<\/h3>\n

Flood the Luminous Body<\/p>\n

Our sufferings do not magically end; instead we are able to wisely alchemically recycle them. They become the abundant waste that we use to make new growth possible. \u2013 bell hooks*<\/p>\n

An inner landscape takes form through crystallized tears, maps of inner journeys appear on garments, narratives of loss and pain are shared. The terrible beauty of our longings and losses is first succumbed to and then delicately transformed into expressions of coping and keeping, mending and sorting, nurturing and holding. Here the longings to be able to nurture and love, and to be nurtured and loved, are stitched into the very works themselves. There is futility present, and yet so much is surmounted by the expression of a gesture, thought, or word.<\/p>\n

As an artist, I find that there is the opportunity to create\u2014via a \u201cmagical process\u201d\u2014using an item of little value and transforming it into something of great meaning, which is central to my work. I transform my own difficult\u2014yet often common\u2014experiences into meaningful expressions by selecting simple and abundant materials such as household goods, garments, plants, and salt, and transforming them via an alchemical-esque process. My use of embroidery and other traditional \u201cwomen\u2019s work\u201d techniques along with lived-used domestic objects that have passed from one use to the next over time serves to remind us that the home is the site of our first \u201cworld,\u201d and the objects and functions in those homes are charged with meaning.<\/p>\n

Website<\/h3>\n

www.erincolemanart.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Artist Images<\/h3>\n

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“In the distance from here to my heart.”
Approx. 16 x 16 inches.
Video, found antique collar, muslin, and hand-crochet cotton.
Documentation can be found at: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bo7ykCPQvnc<\/p><\/div>\n

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“You, coming back to me.” 30 x 30 inches Antique embroidered cloth, with hand-embroidered cotton with crystallized tears.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Seepage.” 24 x 36 inches Hand-embroidered calico jar covers with the label \u201ctears\u201d, salt-encrusted jars of tears, found cabinet. cloth, with hand-embroidered cotton with crystallized tears.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cwe are the salt
seas who uphold these lands.\u201d*
In five parts, approx. 13 x 13 inches.
Crystallized tears on cotton, wood.
*Atwood, Margaret. The Circle Game. Toronto: Anansi, 1998, 81.<\/p><\/div>\n

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