A painting of a white heart on a red background, with barbed wire across the front

Love in the Broken Place

The powerful but backwards letter "F," some text and some imagery from freshly printed fashion magazine pages washed or transfered onto the surface of the paper using solvents, this small graffiti-like piece is set off with the American flag behind it, visible as a tiny inset behind the matt. It is intended to reflect fading glory, the state of the country, a beautiful mess and a timeless snapshot that gives order to chaos.

"F" of Strength

image of a crashed object, with surroundings and text

panel study

Paper Collage, Envelope Art: Turquoise blue horizontal business envelope. Black and white paper life insurance junk mail creates horizon, Small red "V" shape atop. Blue as sky. White as ground. Red as Butterfly. A bright, simple statement.

Hello Butterfly

A mixed media painting on a 3D aluminum surface. The edges are dented. The left side of this image depicts a shark trying to bite a mountain climber with a mysterious orange, red, and yellow geometric abstraction layered between the two subjects. The right side of the image is multicolored text on a white background that reads "3. Letting things get in the way." 

Flaws

A drawing of a blue girls head covered in icy blue flowers.

Flowers of blindness 

An mosaic image of a bee created with seeds and grains in the center of a canvas board. It is natural colored with black, cream, and tan tones. The corners of the piece feature a honey comb motif. 

Drawn in black and white, the face of a young girl rotating into place over the face of an old woman. They share a torso dressed in early 20th century clothing and are framed with real butterfly wings.

Decay

A photo of an original mixed media image of a Black woman with a non-descript face posing in a faux fur shawl and dress, elaborate church hat, earrings, and red boots. The background image is gold. The materials used include canvas paper, acrylic paint, and fabric remnants.

Purpose Woman

A female cardinal contrasted against redacted book pages

in the morning, early

This is a paper collage with writing. There are two pictures of a man and a woman teaching a disco dance, and between those, a third picture of a young boy skateboarding. The narrative is a true story involving me and both of those things.

True Tales of Youth from the 20th Century

A broken twig lay laterally from a view in the forked road and light flickers brightly and beyond the shack.

Tar Paper Shack

A collage of a fist clenching dark "revolutionary" female swooping into a gold acrylic swirl of paint.

Revolutionary

A painting of a whale silhouette with a vibrant landscape of orange and blue fish among a lush bed of autumn colored coral. 

Underwater Ecosystem

A Basquiatesque collage of a black piranha with smiling red eyes.

Consider The Misunderstood Piranha

Cutout pictures of green, gray, purple, and blue mountains arranged in a herringbone pattern.

Herringbone Mountains

Paper cut art consisting of a black sheet of paper with negative space cut out to form the image of a human face smiling enigmatically with ornamental details on the head and around the neck.  The design is inspired by the Bayon Temple in Angkor Thom, Cambodia.

Bayon Smile

slightly elongated ball shaped soft sculpture, various shades of blue, textured fabric and smooth ribbons are woven together like a basket.

 . . . deep blue sea

Two light blue surgical masks stretched diagonally across a panel form an X over an abstract painting of a white form in front of a green and ochre background. 

Cancelled Abstraction

Last year, father Al Landes passed away from pancreatic cancer. He had a pile of tools in his garage and he was the kind of man that could fix anything. The six months from the time of his diagnosis was a nightmare as we watched him slowly deteriorate sitting in his recliner. The wrenches and tools represent  conventional medicine and the unconventional ways I tried to save him. His dog Dixie never left his side. Generally  I am an artist that paints in vivid exploding colors. This work is rendered in desaturated color because the color left me during this time. 

I Tried To Fix Him Until His Last Breath

"KITTY PARTY" is a mixed media painting combining elements of hand painted motifs with collage, paint pours, resin, and glitter to depict a group of four felines seated together in a regal manner. 
Conceptually, "Kitty Party" is a play on words relating to South Asian feminine culture. The word "kitty party" itself is used to refer to women who congregate to host social get togethers in their local communities. Often times, a stereotype is associated with these parties, where housewives are known to gossip, spread drama, and create "cliques". This artwork not only takes the definition quite literally by portraying women as the cats they're made out to be, but flipping the definition from the stereotypical gossip group to something more modern: a group of empowered women who despite their differences can come together to lift each other up, fix each others crowns, be there for one another, and create room for the next generation of spirited women. 

"KITTY PARTY" is also painted in the ancient Indian art form of “miniature” painting. Historically this form of art combines influences from Indian, Persian, and Islamic painting. Since it is a style that represents “one form of art created from many” it further pushes the message of unity.
This piece is also a multi media painting bringing together acrylic, collage, glitter, and resin to transform the traditional into something modern, which is also symbolic of the changing landscape of diasporic, second-generation South Asian-American culture. 

Kitty Party

Collage containing images pertaining to nature, landscapes, and culture. A moon on the top of the piece contrasts with an earth on the bottom right corner.

Bored,

A collage depicting an eerie cityscape where citizens are housed like cattle on a factory farm. 

2040: High Density II

Raisin From My Winter Coat Pocket, November 2019

Imagine if someone could paint with hand cut glass.  This is a stained glass mosaic of a handful of bright red peonies, reaching upwards towards sunlight, underneath a stormy iridescent gray sky.  The stems of the flowers are long, flat pieces of glass, as well as some pieces of glass turned on their sides that catch the light just so. 

Peonies After the Storm

Abstract painting on a matchbox with found objects (matchstick and lint) in the foreground. 

Lucky Strike

A crow wearing a top hat with a clock on the side and goggles as the band also sports golden rings on his talons. He looks back over his shoulder as he stands on a rocky promontory with the twilight sky behind him and stars beginning to appear.

Love in the Broken Place, 2020

Erinn Webb