Reception/Lecture: Thursday, February 27th | Noon

Location: Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art | Art Building

Hours: Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and closed weekends, holidays and for spring break March 24-28, 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

Artist Website & Bio: https://www.erinelyse.com/

Erin holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a BFA from the University of Nevada. She is an Associate Professor in the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts.

Reception/Lecture: Thursday, February 15th | Noon

Location: Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art | Art Building

Hours: Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and closed weekends, holidays and for spring break March 27-31, 2023.

Admission is free

“Beyond the Fence

Ancient men and women tucked inside their secret homes hint at things gone and to come. The snake appears every few years, maybe more frequently now. Lightning speaks. Whatever I try to hide will find its way out. However far I reach inward, there will always be the unknown buried there from the beginning, a star, a seed, a night hallucination.

The selected paintings and prose are abstractions of dreams I’ve had from childhood on. I’ve arranged them to coincide with the seasons, the turning of the Earth, and the cycle of a life. Over many years of dreaming, certain characters, events, and places return. This is one cycle.”

– Ellen Picken

Artist Website & Bio: ellenpicken.com

Ellen Picken lives in Spokane, Washington. She has been painting large scale murals for the last decade and co-directing art films with her partner, Rajah Bose, for FactoryTown.