{"id":1214,"date":"2025-09-05T19:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/reframingphotography\/content\/resources\/artists\/erika-devries\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:24:35","slug":"erika-devries","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/resources\/artists\/erika-devries\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika deVries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erika deVries\u2019s website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erikaswonderlands.net\/\">http:\/\/erikaswonderlands.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erika deVries,&nbsp;<em>Searching for Mother<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/searchingformother.net\/\">http:\/\/searchingformother.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erika deVries\u2019s faculty page at Tisch School of the Arts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photo.tisch.nyu.edu\/object\/deVriesE.html\">http:\/\/photo.tisch.nyu.edu\/object\/deVriesE.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erika Devries,&nbsp;<em>beautiful things<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Erika deVries is a mother, artist, lady in love, professor, fairy tale teller\/reader\/believer, thread thief, and mundanity expert. Recently on the subway a woman psychic told her; \u201cI see many good things around you, call me\u201d and handed Erika her card. Grateful and wondrous at her kind words, Erika has translated the experience into \u201cbeautiful things\u201d a new neon work for the windows at HUGO BOSS.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Aglow in neon and written in the artist\u2019s 7 year old son\u2019s hand,<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cbeautiful things\u201d c<em>rystallizes the moment when language, meaning, and experience coalesce. The artist invites viewers to participate in the piece and to photograph themselves and loved ones standing within&nbsp;<\/em>\u201cbeautiful things\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_beautifulthings.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_circus.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_jumpingcait.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_maryadams.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_matt.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erika Devries,&nbsp;<em>an enlarged heart<\/em>, 2010<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_BeginAtBeginning.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_EnlargedHeart.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_GoodGoonGoodness.1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erika Devries,&nbsp;<em>Searching for Mother<\/em>, 2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_mother_2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_mother.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erika Devries,&nbsp;<em>your mother is in the basement<\/em>, 2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_hangingclothes1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/devries_party.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erika deVries\u2019s website http:\/\/erikaswonderlands.net\/ Erika deVries,&nbsp;Searching for Mother http:\/\/searchingformother.net\/ Erika deVries\u2019s faculty page at Tisch School of the Arts http:\/\/photo.tisch.nyu.edu\/object\/deVriesE.html Erika Devries,&nbsp;beautiful things Erika deVries is a mother, artist, lady in love, professor, fairy tale teller\/reader\/believer, thread thief, and mundanity expert. 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