Ethridge’s Collaborative Work Featured in Exhibitions Across New York and Colorado
Assistant Professor Erin Ethridge, who coordinates the foundations program in the Department of Art, saw her collaborative practice featured in several exhibitions this year. Ethridge works with artist Colleen Foley as the collaborative Thorn.
This summer, Thorn’s work was included in two sister exhibitions presented during Upstate Art Weekend, which ran June 25 through 29. “Wishing Well,” an outdoor sculpture exhibition in Germantown, New York, was curated by Jacob Rhodes and Jessica Hargreaves of Field Projects and Mother-In-Law's Gallery. A companion exhibition, “Well Wishing,” was presented at the Lake Carmel Arts Center in Kent Lakes, New York, and curated by Jacob Rhodes of Field Projects.
Earlier in the year, Thorn’s work was on view in “Yes &...” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, where it ran from January through May 2026. Curated by Tobias Fike and Donald Fodness, the exhibition drew coverage in Southwest Contemporary, and Ethridge and Foley’s work was featured on Boulder community radio station KGNU.
Ethridge and Foley have collaborated as Thorn since 2015. The interdisciplinary duo takes their relationship as both subject and tool, examining questions of shared identity, memory, and the body through performance work, sculptural tools, and electronic media.
