Erin Sandsmark is a Minneapolis based artist, originally from Fargo, North Dakota. Sandsmark received her Bachelors of Fine Art degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. In the spring of 2017 she received her Masters of Fine Art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has been exhibited at the Regis Center for Arts Quarter Gallery, West Gallery, the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, the MFA Whittier Gallery, MCAD MFA Gallery, Co Exhibitions Gallery, New Bohemian Gallery, Red Garage Studio, Altered Esthetics, Artspace Jackson Flats, and Studio 427, and at the Freeborn County Arts Initiative in Albert Lea, MN. Erin is an educator, an advocate, and continues her teaching as a Continuing Education instructor with the Minneapolis College of Art and Design when she is not working in education advocacy in the state of Minnesota. artist statement
Our bodies deserve to be seen, without judgement. Fat Liberation is at the center of all the work I do. I have created paintings of other amazing women and femme presenting people in the past, and I plan on stepping back into that role in the future. For now however, I am centering my body and mind again in my work. The past few years have completely turned the world on it's head, and I feel driven to document my own growth, pain, and hopefully, joy. It's time to take my power back. Sometimes it takes great loss, and time away from creating, to build yourself up again.