Artist: Erin Austen Abbott | Location: Water Valley, MS
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Artist: Erin Austen Abbott | Location: Water Valley, MS
Water Valley, MS
Erin Austen Abbott, born 1976, in Tupelo, Mississippi, studied photography at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, and at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA. She has had her work shown in Tampa, FL; Seattle, WA; Boston, MA; Memphis, TN; Los Angeles, CA; Oxford, MS; Charleston, SC; Basel, Switzerland; Milan, Italy, Berlin, Germany and Water Valley, MS in the years 1999-2017. Abbott's work is studied in the art curriculum at The University of Milan in Milan, Italy. She is also the creator and curator of the “One Night Stand Motel Art Show Series”, started in 2007, a series of art shows transforming a motel and its rooms into a one night only art show, giving artists a chance to show their work in a non-traditional setting.
Abbott has had her work published in “Esquire,” “Bon Appétit,” “Visit Baton Rouge,” "Invitation Magazine,” “Country Roads,” Liquor.com, “Sycamore Magazine,” “Southern Living," “Garden & Gun,” “Bitter Southerner,” “Teen Vogue," “Alternative Press,” “LA Times,” “Uppercase,” and “Southern Spaces,” an online journal for Emory University Press. She is a regular contributor for "Design* Sponge," one of the leading interior design blogs in the world and also on the “Splinter Creek" journal, where she shares monthly posts. She also published her first book, "How To Make It,” on Chronicle Books, in the spring of 2017. Erin lives in Water Valley, MS, where she also runs the Living Room Gallery and her shop, Amelia.