Erin Parsch
“Fast Forward, Rewind, & Pause” explores the action of painting compared with the quiescence necessary for paint layers to dry, and how this juxtaposition creates contrasting energy fields of form and color.
I am a painter and performance artist interested in light, color, movement, form, texture and the process by which these perceptual properties accrue over time. My artistic experiences as a professional modern dancer and musician have led me to value the foundational movements of painting, such as brushstrokes, and the vibrations and pulses that exist within light and color. In my studio I paint by natural light, which varies depending on time of day and season and is antecedent to the fields of color- energy present in my work. I explore texture and form by painting on unique materials such as fiberglass, shoji paper, and gesso board. I am fascinated by the intersection of visual art and other creative disciplines and often create work in collaboration with musicians, choreographers and poets.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2021 Talismans, Monica King Projects Art Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2021 The Hue of Silence, album release and art opening, Sunnyside Records NYC
2020 Feed the Frontlines, Monica King Contemporary Gallery, NYC
2020 The Enabling Act-A Call to Arms, M. David & Co Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Phase Shifting, M. David & Co Gallery Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Black Carnations, M. David & Co Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2017 Tales From Below C Level w/ David Taylor, Manhattan School of Music, NYC
2017 Spliced, Tanzie Johnson Gallery, NYC
2016 Pulverized, Tanzie Johnson Gallery, NYC
2015 The Winter Series, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY
2014 Night Terror, Gershwin Hotel, NYC, 2014
2013 The Orchard Series, NAWA, NYC
2013 Field Rust, The Russel Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY
2012 Field Rust, Chelsea Hotel, NYC
2012 Large Works, Wooster Arts Space, NYC
2012 Night Paving, Wooster Art Space, NYC
2010 Incidental Music, staff group show, DIA, Beacon, NY
2005 Why is the Cherry Red, Lincoln Center, NYC
Performance Art
2021 w/Shahzad Ismaily, IBeam Brooklyn, NY
2021 “Ecdysis” Stripped Away, Music Educators Workshop at Carnegie Hall, NYC
2021 The Hue of Silence w/Dov Manski, Digital Album, Sunnyside Records
2020 “Sleep Walking “Black Piano 3 w/ Dov Manski, IBeam Brooklyn, NY
2020 “Sleep Walking” Black Piano 1 w/ Dov Manski, Christie’s Education, NYC
2019 “Sleep Walking” Blue, Music by Dov Manski, and Film by Tony Cenicola, Newburgh, NY
2019 “Sleep Walking” Black Piano 2 w/ Dov Manski, M. David & Co Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Book of Hours w/ Gregg Belisle-Chi, 61 Local, Brooklyn, NY
2018 The Buzzard & the Peacock, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC
2018 “Sleep Walking” Black Piano 1 w/Dov Manski, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Tales from Below C Level w/David Taylor, Manhattan School of Music, NYC
2016 Early Floating, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2015 Motherwell Amour, set design and performancew/Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Manhattan Brass Quintet and William Trigg, Levy Gorvy Gallery, NYC
2014 Untitled w/Neke Carson, Lou Soloff, and David Taylor, Gershwin Hotel, NYC
2014 Shapes on Location, Performance and film, NYC
2013 Shapes on Location, Fish with Braids Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
2007 Work with Dancers, w/ Bo Gehring & Susan Osberg, Bulldog Arts Center, Beacon NY
2006 Angels of the Inmost Heaven, Erick Hawkins Dance Company,w/music by
Wynton Marsalis, Manhattan School of Music, NYC
2005 Visiting Artist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
2005 Why is the Cherry Red, Lincoln Center, NYC
2000 Opening for Centennial, David Parsons Dance Company, Times Square, NYC
Commissions
2020 “Sleep Walking“ Red w/ Dov Manski, IBeam Brooklyn, NY
2019 Painting for Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Phase Shifting 5, Helen Mills Theater, NYC
2017 Painting for Tales From Below C Level w/ David Taylor, Manhattan School of Music, NYC
2015 Motherwell Amour, set design and performancew/Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Manhattan Brass Quintet and William Trigg, Levy Gorvy Gallery, NYC
2014 The Mountain, Painting series commissioned by poet Jeffery Yang to illustrate his work, published Alligatorzine89
2012 Painting for Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Night Paving, Wooster Art Space, NYC
2005 Costume design and painting for Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Why is the Cherry Red, Lincoln Center, NYC
Publications
2020 The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance And Philosophy, published interview, edited by Rebecca Farinas and Julie Van Camp
2019 NY Times, Paintings featured at IBeam Brooklyn, NY
2019 NY Art Beat, Phase Shifting, M.David & Co gallery
2018 VIEWS the Baur au Lac Magazine 2018, published interview with Gigi Kracht, Zurich, CH
2016 BlackBook Magazine, Pulverized, Tanzie Johnson Gallery, NYC
2015 Alligatorzizne/Zine, The Mountain w/poet Jeffery Yang
Education
SUNY Purchase Conservatory
Youth Performing Arts School, Louisville, KY