Artist Bio
Eri King was born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1986 and currently lives and
works in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2011, she received a Bachelor in Fine Arts in
Studio Practice from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She currently owns
and curates 5th Wall Gallery & Project
Space located in downtown Las Vegas inside the Emergency Arts. She has
participated in group exhibitions at CAC’s Off The Strip: New Genres Festival
(2010), CAC Eastside Projects Window Gallery (2010), Donna Beam Gallery (2011),
Marjorie Barrick Museum (2011), MCQ Fine Art Gallery (2011), and has assisted
performance artists such as MK Guth and Mai Ueda in association with NY Art Production
Funds at P3 Studio, Las Vegas (2012). She recently received her first solo
exhibition with Clark County Visual Arts at Winchester Gallery, Las
Vegas and will be exhibiting in January 2013.
Artist Statement:
Eri King investigates consumer identity in the backdrop of America’s
contemporary social landscape. She creates site specific installations
comprised of donated consumer products to create large-scale sculptures. She utilizes discarded everyday items such as
used clothing and damaged technological objects as a way to provide a closer
examination about how these materials function in our daily lives. The
intensive nature of her process in which she operates under a strict system of
manual labor is a way to recycle the efforts of labor put into the manufactured
goods being wasted. The towering stature of the pieces and great quantity of the
materials being utilized functions as a way to confront the viewer in order to
create a discourse about labor, materialism, and abundance of the things our
society consumes and wastes every day and as well as to challenge the viewers
to exercise introspection about their own roles in modern society.
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