Erin LaBonte
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In Her America
2020

Lupa
2018

Mother Earth
​2018

Palmera
​2016

Nesting, 2016 
Founders Hall Gallery 
University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc

Nesting is an exhibit of photographs taken by LaBonte of Lindemann and her son Oliver in their home in Cleveland, WI. The images emphasize patterns, colors and light while documenting, from an outsider’s perspective, the everyday interactions between mother and child. LaBonte’s intimate series of mother and son is accompanied by Lindemann’s poetry.
 
 “The poems in this series mediate on the way a new mother and son interact in the space of their home. Some of the poems respond directly to Erin’s photos; others are more grounded in the very intense, emotionally powerful experiences of early motherhood,” Lindemann said.

A collaboration with Emilie Lindemann



Chameleon, 2014
Rahr-West Art Museum
Manitowoc, WI
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“Chameleon” is a recent body of work created by LaBonte while traveling Mexico with her friend and collaborator, Ellen Dizzia.  Leaving the cultural hub of Mexico City, the travelers  stopped in the small colonial city of San Miguel De Allende.  San Miguel de Allende is known for its artistic culture and art institutes.  However, in recent years much of this very culture had disappeared, leaving the city’s creative institutes abandoned.  Without a lot of art to see or experience and two days before catching their next bus to Pacific coast surf town, Sayulita, LaBonte and Dizzia decided to make their own art.  The two were inspired by the country’s colorful walls and murals and a conversation developed about LaBonte painting Dizzia onto those very walls.  It was when the conversation turned into doing, that “Chameleon” became art.  LaBonte painted Dizzia onto four walls in San Miguel de Allende and four walls in Sayulita.  Tourists and locals, including the local police became active participants in the performance of painting.  LaBonte states, “The beauty of this work is its intuitiveness.  By creating art in unexpected places we started a lot of conversations and met a lot of new people.  The experience of creating the work was as rewarding as the final product.” 


The Only Reason was Seeing, 2010
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA


A Missed Connection, 2010
Esta Aire no esta la Venta
Residencia Corazon, La Plata, Argentina


Window Nights, Philadelphia Lights, 2009


Jars, 2009-2010
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA


Jars, is a collection of jars placed in front of the repetitive image of a small,
 white house from my hometown in Michigan.  Each jar contains a figure reacting to me photographing them in the nude, the figures are co-workers, friends, family, and strangers.  I collected each image much like a child collects a butterfly--punching holes in the lids so the specimens could breath.
 

                                                                      

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