Loren Erdrich is a painter living and working in New York City.

Evoking the feel of hand-dyed garments, she paints on raw muslin with water, dyes, pigments, and other water-based mediums, creating images that exist somewhere between the tangible earthly world and the spiritual beyond. Forms emerge and dissolve throughout the process as she seeks balance between a material’s natural movements and her willful acts of control.

"At the heart of my artistic practice is a deliberate and open collaboration with my medium, prompting discovery in every painting. Portions of each piece are completed prior to stretching as I paint both sides of the fabric, allowing paint to bleed through and soak up color from past paintings through the drop cloth. The materials, coupled with my inventive ways of using them, strain against whatever boundaries are placed before them."

Gods and monsters haunt the paintings, taking their physical and allegorical cues from the materials with which they were created. The figures are semi-permeable, blurring with the environment surrounding them and refusing to recognize the separation between outside and inside, this world and the other- worldly. The resultant paintings are inhabited by figures and environments that act as touchstones of the unseen world.

In the grade school exercise of ‘show and tell’, she is primarily interested in the showing rather than the telling. While having no desire to re-narrate ancient myths, or even to decisively formulate her own, Loren hopes to create the outline of a new world in which new myths may form and from which new meaning may be drawn.