Erin Garrity-Duffey

Erin Garrity-Duffey’s art is consumed with the mechanics, formation, and deterioration of the human brain. Neuroscientific studies of memory loss, early childhood development, and trauma have produced a wave of discoveries in recent decades about how the mind functions and falls apart. This research — collected from science journals, newspapers, and magazines — has acted as inspiration and source material for Garrity-Duffey. Her drawings and paintings are reminiscent of magnified fluid pressed between glass slides, reflecting a longstanding practice of observing blood, scabs, and all manner of biological specimens under the microscope; biomorphic forms allude to the interior of the human body without directly portraying it.

Erin Garrity-Duffey (b. 1982) is an artist and educator. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and a Master of Education from Saint Xavier University in 2011. Garrity-Duffey’s artwork has been exhibited at The Other Art Fair in Chicago and Dallas, Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, and Illinois Art Education Association Exhibition, as well as at local Chicago businesses and online at Saatchi Art. Garrity-Duffey’s work can be found in private collections in Illinois, Florida, Ohio, New Jersey, and Texas.

Submitted by Madron Gallery