About

Erica-Lynn Huberty is a pioneer in the contemporary fiber arts movement. She earned her MFA in Painting (as well as a separate MA in British Literature, both in 1995) from Bennington College where she trained with Amy Sillman and Rochelle Feinstein. Her work mingles textiles and sewing arts techniques with watercolor and ink, embroidery, crochet and knitting, loom-woven grounds, mediums overlapping as if done simultaneously, and exploring the historical tradition of “women’s work.” The process is at once tedious, time-consuming and physically demanding, as well as a symbol of feminine self-worth. Sometimes, the narrative is allowed to develop organically from textures and images on existing textiles, or in segments of her own sketches, scraps of trim, lace and appliqués, crocheted strands; at other times, a set mythos is constructed from her own fictional or autobiographical narratives. She is informed by 17th-19th Century naturalist drawings, her family’s Spanish, Tunisian, Celtic and Romani needlework traditions, and by environmental and architectural factors, particularly the fragility of endangered environments, flora and fauna, and vanishing historically-significant sites. Her art has been exhibited at Racine Art Museum, WI; David&Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn; Ricco Maresca Gallery and Denise Bibro Fine Arts in Manhattan; Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor, and Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, NY. She has created site-specific installations at the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Center, the Leiber Collection Museum Garden, an abandoned beach house in Bridgehampton, the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum in Sag Harbor, NY, and on Mary Mattingly’s Wetland, for The Parrish Art Museum’s ambitious “Radical Seafaring” exhibition. Her work is in the permanent collections of Onna House, East, Onna House, South, and the Parrish Art Museum.