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Biography
Erin Treacy creates vivid large-scale drawings, paintings, and three-dimensional sculptural assemblages, an artistic method she describes as a "tripod" of mediums. While all three forms are clearly informed by the others, each is particular in its realization. Treacy's drawings feature fantastical, amorphous figures that take inspiration from the natural world. Her fluid linework and vibrant color palette evoke flowers, fallen tree boughs, insects, and underwater crustacean. Each drawing blurs the figurative boundary between the imaginative and the organic world.
Similarly, Treacy's large-format paintings consist of overlapping layers of oil, acrylic, and charcoal. Together, they form an intricate web of alternating textures, calling out for touch. Using abstract and impressionistic forms, Treacy deconstructs the viewer's sense of space and movement, with color and shape as our only guide. Sculptural assemblage forms the last leg of Treacy's tripod. In these works, Treacy transforms the flattened 2-dimensional contours of her drawings and paintings into figural objects that are equally familiar and disorienting. She creates these works from "pieces of dismantled 'successful' paintings, recycled 'failed' paintings, and trimmings of still existing paintings," she says. Such assemblages are fantasies come to life: tokens of the natural world, deconstructed, reformatted, and presented in an entirely new and intuitive perspective. Treacy's work evokes all the beauty, vibrancy, and wonder of being in and of the world simultaneously.
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Download Treacy CVLives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
Artist Summer Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Creative Capital
MFA, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Semester Abroad, Amsterdam Hoegschool voor de Kunst, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsSOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Forthcoming exhibition, NAVA Contemporary, NY/CA (online)
2025
Erin Treacy: Bending Nature, the Donald Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
2021
Three-Sided Coin, Fort Defiance, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Waves and Roots of Home, Freeport Rec Center with Long Island Arts Council, Freeport, NY
Reciprocal Relationships, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Waking Waves, NAVA Contemporary, NY/CA (online)
2019
Erin Treacy: Connecting the Dots, Blue Table Post, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Scrupulous Records, Sunny's, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Erin Treacy: Dismantled and Reclaimed, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Erin Treacy: Assemblages, Chain Theater Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2013
Erin Treacy, The Chain Theater Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2011
Landscape with Red Roof, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Interchanges: Understood Complexity, Masson Hayes + Curran, Dublin, Ireland
Through the Burren, Steps towards Abstraction, Burrenbeo, Kinvara, Ireland
2009
Fantasy/Falsity in Memory, Excel Gallery, Tipperary Town, Ireland
Visual Catalogs, Not Alphabetically Arranged, BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PATWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
A Blue Door in Mud Season, Basin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022
We Work Here, Sunny's, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Swell and Edge, (with Diane Dwyer), Reservoir Art Space, Ridgewood, NY
2015
Her History Dilemma (with Adrienne Reynolds), Cloying Parlor, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Wandering Boundaries (with Joan Phillips), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2012
Site Specific (with Rachel Sitkin), Plywood Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2011
Reflections (with Rachel Burke), Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, IrelandSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Radiant, Chataqua Institute, Cataqua, NY
Through the Grove, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
2024
Healing Color, Brooklyn Botanica, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Finding a Memory (curated by Erika b Hess), Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2021
My Octopus Teacher, WoArt (online)
2020
Soaring Gardens, Hope Horn Gallery, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
USPS Project, Artist Gym, Boulder, CO
2019
Twenty Years of Curating, Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD
Parallel Play (curated by Heather Topcik), Spaceworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Between You and Oblivion curated by Johnny Gagne, Spaceworks Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Line of Site curated by Antecedent Projects, Flux Art Fair, New York, NY
The Infinite Mind , Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2014
The Art Space and Time, Casalmaggiore Contemporary, Casalmaggiore, Italy
2012
MADE IN PAINT, Golden Artists Colors, New Berlin, NY
In the Place We Live, M55 Art, Long Island City, Queens, NY
Adventure Residency Program Headquarters, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
2011
Audiolise, Exchange Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
2010
Burren in Bloom, The Hynes Gallery, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
2009
Untitled, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland
Show, Gallery 126, Galway, Ireland
Exchange, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, United Kingdom
2007
Weather, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA
Equivalents, San Francisco Studio School Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Boston Young Contemporary, 808 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA
From our Perspective, Oakland Community College, MIAWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fulbright Fellowship-Painting, Ireland, 2009-2010
Graduate Fellowship, Instructor of Record, Drawing Faculty, UMASS Dartmouth, 2005-2007RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2026
Monticello Art Center, Artist in Residence, Monticello, CA
Bryn Du Commission Artist in Residence, Granville, OH
The Potato Farm, Artist in Residence, Jamestown, NY
Horned Dorset Colony, Artist in Residence, Leonardsville, NY
The Camp, Artist in Residence, Caroga Lake, NY
2024
HArC Ceramic Residency, Greenbush, MI
Michigan Arts & Cultural Council, POD grant
2023
Weir Farm National Park Artist in Residence, Wilton, CT
Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, NY
2020
Part-time Faculty Development Grant, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2019
Windy Mowing Artist Residency, Halifax, VT
2017
Arthotel Residency & Grant, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
The Wassaic Project, Artist in Residence, Wassaic, NY
2016
Two Rooms Contemporary Art Project, Artist in Residence, Newfoundland, Canada
Turkey Land Cove Foundation, Artist in Residence, Martha's Vineyard, MA
2014
The Lerman Trust, Soaring Gardens, Artist in Residence, Scranton, PA
2012
Artist Summer Institute, Creative Capital and LMCC, New York, NY
The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2010
Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Kerry, Ireland
2009
1st Villa Gaia Art Symposium, Seggiano, Italy
The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Clare, Ireland
Custom House Studios, Westport, Mayo, Ireland
2008
International Artists' 16˚ Art Symposium, Studio Symposium, Hauho, Finland
Ambient Exterior, Prague, Czech Republic
Ambient Exterior, Bratislava, Slovakia
2007
Ambient Exterior, Bratislava, Slovakia
Plener Liptov Mysterium Prirody, Liptovky Jan, SlovakiaPRESS
Bloomfield Art Exhibit Inspired by Unique Subject: Frozen Compost, Pittsburgh Tribune, Patrick Varine, Sept 18, 2020
Editors' Picks: 14 Things to See in New York This Week, Artnet News, Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, Jan 22, 2018
17 Years, BoxHeart's Newest Exhibit, Local Pittsburgh, Onastasia Youssef, Jan 18, 2018Three Secrets of Artists who get Grants and Residencies, Huffington Post, Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Jun 1, 2017
Queens Residency Program Provides Studio Space in Unlikeliest of Places, Art Info, online, Leah Rosenzweig, May 24, 2017,
New Program Creates Art Studios in Queens Hotels, NY1, Thabia Sibanda, May 4, 2017
Art in Odd Places, Wall Street Journal, Charles Passy, Apr7, 2017
Fair for the People: An Interview with Leanne Stella, Whitehot Magazine, Heather Zises, Sept 2016
Erin Treacy: Dismantled and Reclaimed, Pittsburgh Tribune, PA, Kurt Shaw, Aug 5, 2015
The Mixed Media Tapes: Interview with Erin Treacy, Ahtcast, blog, Phillip J. Mellon, Oct 2014
Heidi Russel and the Golden Foundation, Women Artists Salon (radio), Sept 4, 2014
Sight Specific: Rachel Sitkin & Erin Treacy at Plywood, BmoreArt, blog, Cara Ober, Feb 19 2012
Outside the Box, Baltimore Magazine, MD, Christine Stutz, Mar 2012
The Studio Visit - Rachel Sitkin, Peacock Interviews, Mar 15, 2012
Ink and Digital, Audiolise, Dublin, Ireland, May 17, 2011
In Profile: Erin Treacy, Connacht Tribune, Ireland, Judy Murphy, Apr 09, 2010
An Artful Way Through the Burren, The Clare People, Ireland, Andy Hamilton, Apr 6, 2010
Morning Call with Sean Buckley, Tipperary Midwest Radio (104.8), Ireland, Oct 7, 2009
The Makers Series, Southcoast 247, Ma, Liz Tomasetti, Jul 7, 2008
BoxHeart's Art Inter/National Builds a Strong Reputation, Pittsburgh Tribune, Pa, Kurt Shaw, Jan 17, 2008TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ, 2012-Present
Maryland Institute of College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, 2011-2012SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, AND JURIES
2023
Guest Speaker, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Guest Speaker - Environmental Readings, Basin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021
Visiting Artist, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Artist Lecture, Blue Table Post, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, Drawing on Perception, New York, NY
2018
A Gathering Exhibition Juror, Spaceworks, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Lecture, JH Art Talks, Queens, NY
Artist New Work Grant Juror, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2016
Visiting Artist and Critique, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
2014
Invited Panelist, International Opportunities, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Travel and Art Panelist, Area 405, Baltimore, MD
Guest Speaker: Fulbright for Visual Artists, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC
2012
Artists Peer Circle 2012, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2010
#rank-Free Art Stand Coordinator, SEVEN, Winkleman Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
Guest Lecturer, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
2008
Guest Curator, Location Not Specific, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
2004
Artist Assistant, Jean Shin Studio, Brooklyn, NY
