Nick and Erin, Erin and Nick
On display in the South Gallery at the Columbia Art League
April 2 - April 27, 2024
Reception: Thursday, April 18th, 5:30 - 7 pm
Artists’ Statement
Nick and I started making collaborative art in 2015. We made mixed media work, installations, and screen-printed posters for concerts under the name Potter Press. The way we make work together is constantly evolving, even after nearly two decades. Collaborative art is unique, exciting, and often very frustrating. It takes a lot of trust, communication, agreement, and surrender. You must understand and respect what your partner produces. As we have gotten older our own individual styles have diverged, making it more difficult to work together. We realized one of us must come up with the concept or direct the piece, rather than expecting something to organically come about with 50/50 input. For this show we decided to have half the show be pieces that one of us initially started, and the other would finish or add on to it. Each of our pieces has a figure by one of us, then we pass it to one another to make marks. In this way we can see how differently the styles of the pieces become, even if we both work on them, depending on which one of us began the piece. The first person to begin the piece sets the tone and the other tries to utilize their own styles to blend and compliment the existing work.
