Feb. 27th, 2025 – Apr. 10th, 2025
EWU Art Building
Admission is free
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 9am to 6pm
Closed Weekends, Holidays, and for Spring Break March 24-28, 2025
Artist Website: https://www.erinelyse.com/
The opening reception of Erin Elyse Burns: Iterations as well as a lecture by the artist will be held on Thursday, February 27th, Noon.
Location: Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is located in the Art Building situated in the center of the fine and performing arts complex on the EWU campus in Cheney, Washington.
Hours: Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and closed weekends, holidays and for spring break March 24-25, 2025.
Admission is free
“Does imaging the deathly bring us closer to life?
Can I let go of attachment while holding on to my ego?
How can repetition transform consciousness?
Will dissolving the self give me a sense of belonging?
What color is the sacred?
Iterations is a solo exhibition by lens-based interdisciplinary artist Erin Elyse Burns that brings several bodies of work into conversation with each other. They whisper about material abstraction and obsession. They make clear that the volume of internal quiet is in fact deafeningly loud. Held gently in the palm of a thoughtful hand, each idea is turned over, examined, turned over again and again. In the process they are polished into poignant exhaustion. Call these tumbled stones photographs, video, performance art, relics. Each artifact is interconnected and each line distinct.”
– Erin Elyse Burns
Erin Elyse Burns is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice navigates territory within the disciplines of photography, video, performance art, and artifact. She casts herself as a figure within her work in order to create experiences that evoke a sense of the picturesque, the vulnerable, and the absurd. Preoccupied with being both the seer and being seen by the camera, Burns explores this dual position of power that allows for a dichotomy of distanced scrutiny and inherent intimacy. Concepts of private ritual, loss, identity, and the ephemeral persist within her work.
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally in exhibitions at Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Oregon, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery at Central Washington University, the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Border Patrol Gallery in Portland, Maine, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Henry Art Gallery, the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, among others.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions have been presented at Lilla Galleriet in Gerlesborg, Sweden, SOIL Art Gallery and the Jack Straw Cultural Center’s New Media Gallery in Seattle.
Visit her website: https://www.erinelyse.com/
Learn more about our upcoming exhibitions and what we have shown in the past.
Josh Hobson
Director of the EWU Art Gallery
jhobson1@ewu.edu.
EWU Gallery of Art
22 7th St,
Cheney, WA 99004
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed weekends and holidays
Receptions are held on opening days of exhibitions (Wednesdays at noon) unless otherwise noted.
All events are free to the public.
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