erin parsch

photo: Thomas D.Dunn

Erin Parsch's art draws on the traditions of cubism, color field, and abstract expressionism.

Erin grew up attending Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky. She studied dance, piano and music theory at the University of Louisville. At the age of seventeen, Erin moved to New York to study art history, dance, choreography, and improvisation at the State University of New York at Purchase. She joined the Erick Hawkins Dance Company in 2001 as a principal dancer and was featured in such works as New Moon (originally created in 1989). The Hawkins Company successfully integrated dance with live music - such as Lucia Dlugoszewski’s stark, experimental compositions - and art, exemplified in the sets designed by Louise Bourgeois, Robert Motherwell, and Ralph Dorazio. While dancing with Hawkins, Erin also designed and created sets for the company's performances.

Erin has had several shows in NYC. She was commissioned to paint a 12’ x 18’ painting for a dance piece that premiered at Lincoln Center on April 1, 2005. She has had solo shows at the Wooster Arts Space in SoHo, and her work was exhibited in a group show along with paintings by Basquiat and Hinmann.

Some of her most recent work has been collaborative. A major project has been The Mountain a shattering environmentalist plea in the form of images welded together with poetry by Jeffrey Yang, whose recent collection "An Aquarium" was enthusiastically praised in the New York Times Book Review.

Erin has also continued to be active in dance, sought out as an outstanding teacher of modern dance at major Hudson Valley cultural and recreational centers. She collaborates with others in this area as well, working, for instance, with the noted dance performance artist and choreographer Susan Osberg in works such as 'The Monk Project'.

Erin lives and creates art in the East Village, Manhattan.