Erin Currier was born on January 10, 1975 in Massachusetts. She left New England for Northern New Mexico in 1993. Erin earned her BFA in Costume Design from the College of Santa Fe in 1997. She began her formal career as a fine artist when she moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1998. Since then, she has built a reputation for innovative assemblages composed of recycled materials from all over the world, and has been represented in exhibitions and galleries in the Taos area and in California. Her work is in private collections internationally.

Artists Statement

Today’s globalized, multinational, international, multilingual, on-line, on-the-grid, for-profit, fuel-driven, free-trading world of satellite-dished-out telenovelas that force feed fast food, Kevlar, Teflon, Zoloft, Botox, Perdue Roasters, and tomato sauce, is one of increasingly fierce conflicts of interest and interest rates, between the conquerors and conquered, dominators and dominated, capitalists and workers, employers and unemployed, overdeveloped and underdeveloped, overweight and underfed, first-class and so-called Third World, oppressors and oppressed, and the blessed and the damned.  As an artist born into a system which represents the former, I consequently seek to know and to make known the plight of the ill-understood latter: the nameless, faceless, voiceless, and marginalized, who, as Eduardo Galeano so eloquently puts it (We Say No), “Make history from below and from inside rather than to continue to suffer history from above and from outside.”