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Text by Maayan Strauss

Erin Diebboll
Resident - Container Artist Residency 01

ERIN DIEBBOLL (b.1984 Massachusetts, US) is an artist based in New York and San Francisco. Working in large-scale drawing, her work engages concepts of history and time, mapping familiar and imagined spaces based on personal memories, historical narratives, and constructed archives.

Diebboll received a BFA from Cooper Union. Her solo show “Salon” was recently installed at Kala Art Institute’s Off-Site Exhibition Space, Berkeley, 2015. She is currently a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and has been granted residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley; Tsarino Foundation, BGR; The Vermont Studio Center; LMCC’s Swing Space, New York; and the Lower East Side Printshop, New York.

About

Following a trip on a container vessel from Israel to New Jersey in 2011, I conceived of the Container Artist Residency. As part of the project, I facilitated, through a long chain of emails, calls, WhatsApp texts, and the funds obtained from a shipping line a residency at sea for seven artists (eight to be exact, as one of the artists was a duo). This website stand alongside the website dedicated to the first edition, and is meant to record and present the process of producing the project, as well as continuing a conversation with the different contributors who took part in the residency. With the goals of realizing further editions in the future, it will also host the records of the anticipated continuation of the project.