Erin M. Riley, Somebody Cares, 2026; Hand-Embellished, Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Print

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Erin M. Riley crafts meticulous, large-scale tapestries depicting intimate, erotic, and psychologically raw imagery. Using a floor loom, traditional techniques, and hand-dyed wool yarn, the Brooklyn-based artist combine collaged elements—drawn from personal photographs, images sourced from the internet, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera—as a way of reflecting upon relationships, memories, fantasies, and trauma. Riley’s work has been exhibited around the world, and has been acquired into the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, NY, and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum of Art at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, among others. In 2021, she also received a United States Artists Fellowship Grant, as well as an American Academy of Arts & Letters Art Purchase Prize.

Somebody Cares portrays the artist’s tattooed torso, reclining in larger-than-life scale atop an asphalt highway. Various objects—a smashed beer bottle, a window pane that spells out the SOS distress signal, and a crashed vehicle—also appear, alluding to a sense of impending disaster. Regarding her artistic practice, Riley notes, “My work is about generational trauma, the search for self identity both online and within relationships, and how our experiences affect the way we move through the world. I aim to use autobiographical elements with broader language and imagery to translate universal experiences.” Printed on white denim, each edition in this limited series features unique elements that include hand-embroidered text, and a machine-sewn overlay on the white contours of the depicted car. 

Of ART FOR CHANGE’s initiative to support the Brooklyn Museum, Riley adds, “The Brooklyn Museum has supported my work by showing it in the Brooklyn Artists Exhibition and, more recently, by adding it to their collection. I am honored to be a part of such an incredible legacy, and am proud to do what I can to support their exhibitions and programs.”

Erin M. Riley
Somebody Cares
14 x 20 inches
UV-curable print on fabric
Limited edition of 20 with 6 AP + 2 PP
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist 
$3,000

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