CELEBRATING PRIDE MONTH, JUNE 2022
Artist in Residence at the InterContinental Miami
Mondays 5PM - 7PM (EST)
Warehouse 4726 has partnered with the InterContinental Miami Hotel to present Noche de Arte, a weekly happy hour event featuring an artist from the Bird Road Art District.
You are invited to join us Mondays in the lobby as locally acclaimed artists bring their works to life around the Hotel's famed Henry Moore "Spindle" sculpture.
For June's Pride Month Celebration, the hotel will be offering a signature cocktail with proceeds benefitting YES Institute. YES Institute's vision is a community in which all youth develop as healthy individuals free of suicide, violence and discrimination. Their mission is to prevent suicide and ensure the healthy development of all youth through powerful communication and education on gender and orientation.
June Artist in Residence is Erin Parish.
Each Monday of the month of June, Erin will digitally work on an iPad to create a single, new, separate digital work with one of her paintings as the base layer. This process will be displayed on a monitor for all to view, opening the potential to offer them as NFTs of the creative process. The audience will witness each mark Erin makes, including erasing bad decisions and pivoting for redirection. Unsurprisingly, each choice will be documented, as she is both the actor and the documentarian.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Erin Parish, (American, b. 1966) was educated at Bennington College in Vermont and received her Masters degree at Queens College, which began a 20 year New York City period. She worked in galleries, curated exhibitions and worked as an artists' assistant for nearly a dozen different artists, an education in itself. In the latter 10 years of her time in New York she painted full time and had numerous solo exhibitions and critical acclaim. Not only did she learn the ropes business-wise in New York, but she arrived in the city having had four artist parents raise her. Her father was a professor emeritus in painting at Wayne State University, located in Detroit. She grew up in a 5000 square foot artists' loft in Detroit's racially torn downtown. In short, she has been involved in making and learning about art from as early as she can remember, and according to her mother, even longer than that. As a single mom, her mother used to entertain Erin in the playpen as she painted showing her art books, often about Picasso. Her mom would turn the page when she stirred, successfully preoccupying her again.
She came to Miami Beach to buy an investment property with her painting sales money for 3 months. It has been 15 years. As snow held no allure for her, and the sun, the sea and the lazy heat relaxed her nervous nature, she has yet to return. She has had over 30 solo shows to date and has an extensive corporate collectors list which can be found on her website Erinparish.com.
For as long as there has been the technology Parish has played with the digital medium, her first experience was as a college freshman with the Mac Paint program in 1984. Fast forward to the recent developments of the NFT market, the easy accessibility of 3-d programs, and the many display options, Parish found the sweet spot where she could go back into old paintings and layer atop them with Procreate and Photoshop. Her lifelong drawing skill finally became something she could use. The website for her digital works is ParishEditions.com.
Monday Nights at the InterCon Miami
5PM - 7PM in the InterContinental Hotel Lobby
6:30PM Tour of works on view
Valet parking and metered parking available
Skip parking and take the MetroMover! Exit at the Bayfront Park Station.