Erin DiGiovanni

Erin DiGiovanni is an artist, hiker, dog and nature person, and educator living in Logan, UT. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking at Utah State University where she teaches drawing and printmaking courses. Previously, she taught foundation through graduate courses at The University of Arizona, where she earned her MFA degree in 2D Printmaking, 2020. She has been an artist-in-residence twice for Open AIR, Montana in partnership with the US Forest Service and Frank Church Foundation. Both residencies were in remote wilderness locations, which included Fish Lake in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and Castle Butte Lookout in Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest. Her work has been selected for juried and group shows throughout the Midwest, Southwest, nationally and internationally, including New York, Sweden, and Puerto Rico.

 

Through drawing, printmaking, and collage, her work navigates and questions societal norms within American culture as a woman born and raised in the Midwest playing soccer near cornfields and shopping malls, to now living in the West exploring our public lands. DiGiovanni manipulates seemingly banal imagery to codify personal experience within the familiar and the new. Her work incorporates material, process and product to hold space for disparate thoughts and conflicting ideas found within individual anecdotes and commonplace shared issues. Themes of domesticity, ownership, consumerism, neglect, reverence and loss trickle along fragmented compositions and symbolic, mundane objects within Erin’s prints, drawings, and installations.