Erin Diebboll (b.1984 Massachusetts, US) is an artist based in New York and San Francisco. Working in large-scale drawing, her work engages concepts of history and time, mapping familiar and imagined spaces based on personal memories, historical narratives, and constructed archives.
Diebboll received a BFA from Cooper Union. Her solo show “Salon” was recently installed at Kala Art Institute’s Off-Site Exhibition Space, Berkeley, 2015. She is currently a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and has been granted residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley; Tsarino Foundation, BGR; The Vermont Studio Center; LMCC’s Swing Space, New York; and the Lower East Side Printshop, New York.
Shanghai → Busan → Panama City → Kingston → Savannah →Norfolk→ New York Diebboll is going through the Panama Canal after 25 days at sea on the container ship ZIM Haifa. After leaving the ports of Shanghai & Pusan, she crossed Japan’s Tsugaru Strait out to the Northern Pacific, south of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands towards Baja California and then traveled along the coast of Central America to the canal “Her course is part of a great circle: “the shortest line on the surface of a sphere between two points…”
It took Diebboll 20 days to make it from Busan, South Korea to the Panama Canal. Now she’s headed into the Caribbean and then on to the east coast of the US.
Photos of horizons Diebboll has taken while at sea.
Erin Diebboll is crossing the Pacific on her way to the Panama Canal. Below are some photos she has taken at sea.
Erin Diebboll made landfall in Busan on May 28th. She will now spend the next two weeks at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean on her way to the Panama Canal. Below are some of Erin’s photos of Busan.
Erin Diebboll departed from the port of Shanghai on May 25th en route to Busan, South Korea. Below are photos she took while departing.
