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Joy Christiansen Erb

Joy
Christiansen Erb

SPE Member since 2000
Member Chapter: Midwest

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
Emmet and Me
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
Blackberry stain
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
The Little Prince
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
The Photographs
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
Emmet crying
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
Portrait of Emmet
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
C-Section / ASD and VSD Repair
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
Postpartum Hairloss
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
T-rex
Archival Pigment Print

Joy Christiansen Erb

SPE member since 2000
EKG
Archival Pigment Print

about

Joy Christiansen Erb is a contemporary photographer and artist whose creative research explores themes such as memory, identity, and storytelling. Her most recent body of work explores the subjects of motherhood and family. This body of work is an autobiographical journey examining the lives of her family and her domestic space. The images included in the series document both the struggles and triumphs of everyday life.

Her photography has gained recognition through regional and national exhibitions and lectures as well as a 2015 Ohio Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Recent and upcoming solo exhibition venues include the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Center for the Emerging Visual Artist in Philadelphia, Peoria Arts Guild and the Galveston Arts Center. Recent group exhibitions include Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Her artwork has also been highlighted in a variety of publications including two notable textbooks. A portfolio of her most recent work is housed at the Museum of Contemporary Photography as a part of the Midwest Photographers Project in Chicago, IL.

She currently resides in Youngstown, Ohio, where she is an Associate Professor of Photography at Youngstown State University. She received her B.F.A. from Miami University, Oxford, OH and her M.F.A. from Texas Woman’s University.

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