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Eli Lilly Endowment Creativity Fellowship
Brazil
2024
"Art IN the Abstract"
Indiana State Museum
2024
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The FIND North
A partnership with The FIND North to create limited edition prints along Lake Michigan's northern coast.
2023
The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Marcia Evans Gallery
Columbus, Ohio August 2022
Natural Histories at ARTLINK Contemporary Gallery
May 5th - June 5th, 2022 in Fort Wayne, Indiana
This collection of work is a marking of time and place, informed by the piercing markers of loss and the experience of healing. It is a performative process in collaboration with natural elements, rooted in meditation. The cyanotypes are made with non-toxic materials that interact with sunlight and bodies of water.
“As I sit and watch reflections dance on the ever-changing surface, I collect the movement of water over paper. I watch the sunlight slowly change colors on paper, shifting shapes and my state of being. This work grows into a celebration of life and records all that is beautiful in the present.
These pieces were created locally in Fort Wayne’s three rivers and other destinations; Lake Michigan, the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and the Peconic Bay along the North Fork of Long Island. The QR codes attached to individual pieces link to environmental videos. These videos were created on-site to allow the viewer to see where the work originated.
These images are exhibited with environmental videos created in tandem with the cyanotypes in each location. View Videos
Natural Histories Playlist on Spotify
“As I sit and watch reflections dance on the ever-changing surface, I collect the movement of water over paper. I watch the sunlight slowly change colors on paper, shifting shapes and my state of being. This work grows into a celebration of life and records all that is beautiful in the present.
These pieces were created locally in Fort Wayne’s three rivers and other destinations; Lake Michigan, the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and the Peconic Bay along the North Fork of Long Island. The QR codes attached to individual pieces link to environmental videos. These videos were created on-site to allow the viewer to see where the work originated.
These images are exhibited with environmental videos created in tandem with the cyanotypes in each location. View Videos
Natural Histories Playlist on Spotify
Exhibition photographs by Sierah Barnhart @cultivatingthe07
ARTLINK Cyanotype Workshop and Artist Talk
"Natural Histories" Process & Travel Images
Erin Patton-McFarren creates experimental cyanotypes in the waterways near her home in northern Indiana and where adventure takes her.
These prints were created in Brooklyn, NY in July at Pebble Beach in DUMBO.
Large format and smaller pieces were created in Cutchogue, NY catching waves and sand in the NOFO of Long Island in July.
Large format pieces were created at Winona Lake in northern Indiana with June sunlight.
Fall October winds and sand made beautiful results at Indiana Dunes National Park in Lake Michigan.
Forms were inspired by mountains and the rocky banks of the Allegheny River in a springtime Pennsylvania.
Downtown Fort Wayne is captured at the Riverfront during the Three Rivers Festival in July.
Experiments in a New Orleans downspout and hotel pop up gallery in the shower.
