Erika Lynne Hanson is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her projects are rooted in textile practices, ranging from weavings and video installations to participatory public workshops that actively engage with various sites and their inhabitants. Hanson is an associate professor of textiles/socially engaged practices at Arizona State University. She has exhibited at institutions across the United States and has conducted research across the United States and Scandinavia, with particular attention to rural locations that support the dialogue of posthuman ecologies within her practice.

My work utilizes textiles, video, and sculpture within projects that consider human and more-than-human entanglements in relation to the built environment, climate futures, and economics systems. The weavings are hybrid imagined maps / landscapes. Building thread by thread, they utilize abstraction and the representational limits of the loom to evoke the complications of the current moment in the American desert southwest.

Exhibitions:

The Dinner Party