Erin McGee Ferrell is an American painter working within an expanded field of figuration. Her practice centers on large-scale oil painting, where the human and animal form emerge through fragmentation, tension, and reassembly.Her ongoing series, Girl and Horse / She...
Read MoreErin McGee Ferrell is an American painter working within an expanded field of figuration. Her practice centers on large-scale oil painting, where the human and animal form emerge through fragmentation, tension, and reassembly.
Her ongoing series, Girl and Horse / She Rides, draws from her return to Kentucky, engaging equestrian imagery as both lived experience and symbolic structure. The work resists narrative resolution, instead holding space between control and vulnerability, force and surrender.
Ferrell constructs her paintings through modular panels, disrupting the fixed rectangle and allowing the image to shift across space. This instability is central to the work, where scale, surface, and structure remain in active negotiation.
Recent projects incorporate responsive materials and embedded media, extending painting beyond a static object into a time-based condition.
Her work has been exhibited internationally across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She lives and works between Louisville, Kentucky and international project sites.
