Erin Koch Smith
Artist Statement
I am a painter, but drawing is the foundation of my work. It is how I begin to think. I use doodling as a way to make images because it is a private language, inherently incomplete and wanting.Although narrative is important, I am not interested in resolving a story.Instead, I employ the logic of daydreams and let the materiality of the work play a part in what happens next. My work often starts as a response to the flotsam and jetsam ofdaily life, intentionally leaving room for failure, destruction, and change. These changes become the work. A lamp becomes a bear-coat; a chair and its table change into a single bouncing foot; a dining room falls into a pit and becomes a mountain. I am interested in the ways that stories fail, and how painting and drawing can fill that gap.
Erin Koch Smith, Tree Frog 33, 2020. Ballpoint pen and marker on archival legal paper, 8.3 × 12.5 in (11 × 14 in framed).
Erin Koch Smith, Tree Frog 50, 2020. Ballpoint pen and marker on archival legal paper, 8.3 × 12.5 in (11 × 14 in framed).
Erin Koch Smith, Tree Frog 30, 2020. Ballpoint pen and marker on archival legal paper, 8.3 × 12.5 in (11 × 14 in framed).
Erin Koch Smith, Tree Frog 18, 2020. Ballpoint pen and marker on archival legal paper, 8.3 × 12.5 in (11 × 14 in framed).
Erin Koch Smith, Tree Frog 17, 2020. Ballpoint pen and marker on archival legal paper, 12.5 × 8.3 in (14 × 11 in framed).
Erin Koch Smith, Tree Frog 16, 2020. Ballpoint pen and marker on archival legal paper, 12.5 × 8.3 in (14 × 11 in framed).
Erin Koch Smith, Tree Frog 12, 2020. Ballpoint pen and marker on archival legal paper, 8.3 × 12.5 in (11 × 14 in framed).
Erin Koch Smith, Tree Frog 10, 2020. Ballpoint pen and marker on archival legal paper, 8.3 × 12.5 in (11 × 14 in framed).