Erin LeAnn Mitchell‘s debut solo exhibition, Like Mosquitos to Skin, will open at Kravets Wehby Gallery on Friday, September 8th 6-8PM. Made with materials that Erin gathered in textile markets and fabric stores from Alabama to Johannesburg to Harlem, this show represents her most complex and largest works to date. The quilts in Like Mosquitos to Skin summon the warrior queen Calafia and the Earth-mother Alkebulan—as if illustrating an unwritten Zora Neale Hurston book on the transformative power of Black legends. Her multidimensional assemblages render the realities of southern Blackness into radical new imaginings.

Erin LeAnn Mitchell is from Birmingham, AL, and honors southern matriarchal culture through her practice. She is in the current generation of the deep quilting tradition, using a mixture of textiles, paint, and collage. She has recently completed residencies at the Still Art Residency inJohannesburg, South Africa, and at La Napoule Art Foundation in Mandelieu-La Napoule, France. Her work is in the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Fine Art, and the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at the University of Alabama.