erika adkins

artist statement

I use my art as a means of asking questions and exploring ideas. It is a personal, physical, and visual investigation of the unknown and the known, of chaos and order, of meaning and insignificance.

I am drawn to the ways in which we humans make sense of the world. The way we bring meaning and order to our lives, and the way we can hold conflicting ideas or feelings simultaneously. It is these edges, or borders of inner conflict that interest me. This liminal space is where we can discover insights about ourselves, about the world around us. Where we realize that the closer we look, the more those boundaries fall away.

My intent with my work is to evoke emotion and inquiry, to trigger a memory or a sensation on the part of the viewer that causes deeper looking, both at the painting and within the viewer themselves.