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01 / Painting, habitat, and embedded media

Insect Hotels

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Painting, hand-marbled paper, and NFCs

I began Insect Hotels after traveling to Bahrain, Greece, and Germany. I embedded NFC chips and hand-marbled paper made in Athens.

Selected works

Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. House-shaped compartments with marbled paper and circular marks.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. Three tall house forms with pale washes and marbled paper.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. Three white house forms against blue and dark painted passages.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. Turquoise circles beside textured gray and marbled paper.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. Pink vertical bands surrounding a strip of black and white marbling.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. Pink and pale rectangular fields with fine blue and black marks.
More works and details (6)
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. A grid of dark and pale compartments with looping drawn lines.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. A house-shaped grid of cream panels and fine brown lines.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. A narrow house form with a pointed roof and dark circular marks.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. A tall pale house form with marbled paper in stacked compartments.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. A narrow pale house form outlined in dark paint.
Insect Hotels by Erin McGee Ferrell. Close-up of hand-marbled paper, raised paint, house forms, and circular compartments.

Selected exhibitions

August: Gallery Artists
Garner Narrative · Louisville, Kentucky
Group exhibition · August 2026

Insect Hotels
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Hanover, New Hampshire · Solo exhibition · July–September 2023

In the gallery

I use NFC chips to link the paintings to insect sounds and videos.