CATHERINE ERB BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Erb is a self-taught fine-art photographer from Memphis. She began her fascination with photography in the late 80’s when she had unlimited access to a camera and dark room while attending boarding school. After High School, Catherine moved to Europe where she worked with photographers for several years before returning to Memphis to start a family. Catherine began using her camera to visually journal. In 2003 she discovered the digital darkroom and began creating her own pigment prints as well as exploring alternative ways to print her work.
“My work is like yoga practice—you are the only thing that changes when you show up. I use my work as a meditation to stay present and take advantage of how that grounds me,” she says. It all started as my way to journal. Anything I was working through, I would do visually through my camera.”
Catherine’s work is inspired by relationships. She is fascinated by how we relate to one another and the world around us. Specifically, our relationship to divinity, spirit, and the things we cannot see inform her work. Her series are explorations and studies searching for a glimpse of the invisible. She believes everything and everyone has a divine essence and seeks to capture that in her work.
She has had solo exhibitions in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee; Austin, Texas; Savannah, Georgia; and Greenwich, Connecticut. Her work has been featured in Charleston City Paper, Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, The New Southern, The Art Mag, and Nashville Arts Magazine.
