Erin Jane Nelson

Bio

Erin Jane Nelson is interested in the creative possibilities of destruction. She “finds a way to make a good use of garbage” through recycling her image archive and studio refuse into photographic textile works. A mess of signs for messy times: her works test the boundaries of image legibility and information. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she balances her practice, her day job as a Curatorial Assistant in Photography and Folk & Self-Taught Art, and running Species, the gallery she co-founded in 2016. Last month, imagined ocean creatures materialized as collaged textiles with translucent skin and viewable digested innards in Psychopompopolis, her second solo show at DOCUMENT Space in Chicago.