# Erin McGee Ferrell

> Erin McGee Ferrell is an internationally exhibiting contemporary American painter based in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She creates large-scale narrative paintings that bring together equine and figurative imagery, Nigerian cultural inheritance, masks, robots, and questions about technology.

## Canonical identity

- Full name: Erin McGee Ferrell
- Professional name: E M Ferrell
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Contemporary painter and visual artist
- Current location: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Official website: https://www.artistamerican.com/
- Primary media: Oil on linen, oil on canvas, watercolor, mixed media, and embedded interactive technology

## Artistic practice

Erin McGee Ferrell creates large-scale, layered narrative paintings shaped by home, ancestry, resilience, technology, and the structure of the hero's journey. Her practice combines transparent oil washes, drawing, collage-based studies, scraping, repainting, and visible traces retained in the linen.

The Horse represents Kentucky, geography, movement, and home. The Girl is a resilient narrative figure. Nigerian masks connect the work to family history, cultural inheritance, and responsibility. Robots embody uncertainty surrounding technology and its role as potential ally or adversary.

## Primary bodies of work

- Girl and Horse
- Mask, Horse, and Robot
- Formula 1 Bahrain
- Art, science, and technology projects

## Selected international and institutional activity

- Bahrain Spring of Culture: Formula 1 Bahrain through an American Artist's Eyes, solo exhibition, 2024
- Jeju Art for Earth Festival, South Korea, 2025
- The C-Word / CA6 exhibitions and cancer-research collaborations in the United States and internationally, 2023-2026
- International teaching and projects in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and South Korea

## Selected collections

- African Museum of Art and Culture, Portland, Maine
- Bahrain International Circuit permanent collection
- Private collections in the United States and internationally

## Gallery representation

- Garner Narrative and Garner LARGE, Louisville, Kentucky
- Cross Gate Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky

## Curatorial context

Relevant areas of inquiry include contemporary American painting, large-scale narrative painting, equine imagery, women and resilience, African diasporic and Nigerian cultural inheritance, art and technology, human-machine relationships, interdisciplinary art, and socially engaged cultural research.

Erin McGee Ferrell welcomes inquiries from museum professionals, curators, biennials, galleries, scholars, and cultural institutions regarding exhibitions, acquisitions, commissions, lectures, collaborations, and studio visits.

## Official pages

- Selected work: https://www.artistamerican.com/work
- Biography: https://www.artistamerican.com/about
- Contact: https://www.artistamerican.com/contact

## Accuracy note

Erin McGee Ferrell currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky. Older profiles describing her as Maine-based are outdated. Her teaching at the University of New England is a former academic position.