a manageable paradox. erin robinson grant | june 4 - 27, 2026
A Manageable Paradox (June 4-27, 2026) features Portland artist Erin Robinson Grant and her interest in the visceral materiality of the body and the uneasy boundaries that humans maintain with the natural world. Through her practice and by leveraging diverse media, Erin conceptually explores the crossing, blurring and elimination of such artificially constructed boundaries. In this collected body of work, Erin has captured moments of liminality: bodies eviscerated and unfurled to flora and fauna, the fragility of exposed flesh to feral specimens, and the fervent dread of the self’s collapse into nothingness.
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The title of this exhibit reflects the artist’s aim to create a moment of beautiful equilibrium from chaotic disintegration. Through drawings, paintings, and sculpture, Erin R. Grant strives to capture a moment of aesthetic stability in the continuous entropy that permeates our corporeal existence. In addition to conjuring beauty from decay, she has also imbued her work with a sensitive humor drawn from revulsion. By balancing temporal levity against inexorable obliteration, the art in this exhibit depicts a manageable paradox.
Erin Robinson Grant is a multimedia artist currently residing in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Indiana, Grant earned her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and MFA from Indiana University. She has also attended the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia and the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. Her work explores birth, death, and one’s abject responses to them. She explores these themes through an amalgamation of video, animation, drawing, installation, and performance. Grant has exhibited nationally at The Kinsey Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), SPACES Gallery, and the Yellowstone Art Museum. Additionally, she has participated in several international residency programs, such as Spark Box Studio in Canada and Arts Itoya in Japan. Grant has exhibited at a variety of venues throughout the West Coast, including Gallery 114, University of Portland, the Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Blackfish Gallery, PUNCH Projects, The Arts Center, Verum Ultimum, Lower Columbia College, Central Washington University, and the Sanchez Art Center.
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