Erin Cone
Automatic (2003)
30 x 32 inch
Acrylic on canvas

About the Artist
Erin Cone was born in 1976 and graduated from the University of Texas in 1998 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in Painting. For the past three years, she has lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cone is represented by Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, Texas; by Lyon and Lyon Fine Art in New Orleans, Louisiana; by Seven-o-seven Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and by Andreeva Fine Art Portrait Gallery, also in Santa Fe.
Her work is in numerous private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Artist's Statement
Using only the figure placed in flat, abstract space, I try to convey complex, hidden, enigmatic emotion using the simplest, boldest presentations of figure and composition. Very often the emotions of the figures and the meaning of their actions and poses remain unknown to me throughout the creative process.

It is this sense of the unknown that I try to capture - all of the little uncertainties - the varying impressions different people have of the same thing, glimpses, half-truths, the way perspective shifts with the passage of time, the elusive and highly mutable nature of memory and emotion.

In my recent work, I incorporate boxes as another way to evoke an untold story. Ambiguous and open to interpretation, the boxes often represent the hidden parts of ourselves - emotions, fears, memories - which are unintentionally revealed to the world despite our attempts to hide them. These box forms deal with layers of reality - variable levels of representation and recognition - in an overall attempt to address what is hidden vs. what is revealed.

Contact
www.erincone.com
artist@erincone.com