Education: New York School of Art and Design, Art Students
League, City University of New York.
Arline Erdrich is an established and Internationally recognized artist with a 30 year exhibition history. She was born and educated in New York City where she began her art career before re-locating to Charleston, West Virginia. Then in 1983, during a brief visit to the west coast of Florida, she discovered Aripeka. At the same time Erdrich met, and was befriended by artist, James Rosenquist, who was and still is, a resident there.
Captivated by the natural environment, serenity and incredible vistas of this old fishing village on the Gulf of Mexico, she moved to Aripeka, and has been committed to living in and preserving this unique area of Florida ever since.
Erdrich has been a visiting artist and Artist-in-Residence in a number of cities: Huntington, WV. New York City; Bridgeport and Washington CT. Tampa, FL. Brooksville, FL. and New Port Richey, FL. She has taught at St Leo College in St. Leo, FL. and the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL. She has also been a full time art instructor in a public high school. Exhibiting in galleries and museums throughout the Unites States, Europe and the Caribbean, her work is in prestigious permanent museum, private and corporate collections. Erdrich has been featured in various media and has won numerous awards and grants. In May of 2004, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art mounted an exhibition: Merging-Emerging Arline Erdrich – A 30 Year Retrospective.
In the images of the "Chaos Series," and the more recent, "Passages" themes of survival are expressed: They are both personal and about community -- spiritually and physically. They are experiences that are relevant to events that have occurred in Arline Erdrich's life over the last 30 years. She cheated death four times. Twice, as the result of what are usually fatal illnesses, when doctors informed her family that she would not survive; once, when a miracle allowed her to walk away unharmed from a near fatal auto accident, and the fourth, during a natural catastrophe, the images of which were transformed into a major exhibition. Arline Erdrich died in 2011 at the age of 75.
Arline Erdrich is an established and Internationally recognized artist with a 30 year exhibition history. She was born and educated in New York City where she began her art career before re-locating to Charleston, West Virginia. Then in 1983, during a brief visit to the west coast of Florida, she discovered Aripeka. At the same time Erdrich met, and was befriended by artist, James Rosenquist, who was and still is, a resident there.
Captivated by the natural environment, serenity and incredible vistas of this old fishing village on the Gulf of Mexico, she moved to Aripeka, and has been committed to living in and preserving this unique area of Florida ever since.
Erdrich has been a visiting artist and Artist-in-Residence in a number of cities: Huntington, WV. New York City; Bridgeport and Washington CT. Tampa, FL. Brooksville, FL. and New Port Richey, FL. She has taught at St Leo College in St. Leo, FL. and the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL. She has also been a full time art instructor in a public high school. Exhibiting in galleries and museums throughout the Unites States, Europe and the Caribbean, her work is in prestigious permanent museum, private and corporate collections. Erdrich has been featured in various media and has won numerous awards and grants. In May of 2004, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art mounted an exhibition: Merging-Emerging Arline Erdrich – A 30 Year Retrospective.
In the images of the "Chaos Series," and the more recent, "Passages" themes of survival are expressed: They are both personal and about community -- spiritually and physically. They are experiences that are relevant to events that have occurred in Arline Erdrich's life over the last 30 years. She cheated death four times. Twice, as the result of what are usually fatal illnesses, when doctors informed her family that she would not survive; once, when a miracle allowed her to walk away unharmed from a near fatal auto accident, and the fourth, during a natural catastrophe, the images of which were transformed into a major exhibition. Arline Erdrich died in 2011 at the age of 75.
Arline Erdrich, bio