Shain Erin

“I am an American surrealist/visionary artist working in a variety of media including painting, digital media and sculpture. Recently I have been preoccupied with the formal and expressive possibilities of the doll as a fine art form. I am fascinated with the way that dolls can function simultaneously as contrived objects and living entities. This paradox of an object with a “soul” makes the doll a powerful tool to explore the spiritual predicament of corporeality. In my figures, the struggle to reconcile spirit and flesh is explored through various states of physical miscreation, transformation and dissolution. This monstrous realism reflects an inner landscape of psychological and spiritual struggle with the pain and wonder of existence.”