ERIN LEIGH BOUGHAMER
Erin Leigh Boughamer is a Massachusetts-based abstract expressionist whose work examines the dynamic tension between opposing forces. Through layered systems of geometry and gesture, she creates compositions where structure and surrender, precision and intuition, coexist in deliberate balance.
Rooted in a lifelong inquiry into duality, her paintings explore equilibrium within instability. Rather than resolving contrast, Boughamer constructs visual fields where opposing energies are allowed to operate simultaneously, each sharpening the presence of the other.
Her ongoing body of work, Calming Chaos, investigates the idea that balance is not the absence of tension, but the capacity to hold it. Working across two- and three-dimensional abstraction, she invites viewers into sustained looking, proposing presence itself as a form of clarity.
Curiculum Vitae
Artist Erin Leigh Boughamer
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, JURIED SHOWS & AWARDS
2025 Solo Exhibition, Calming Chaos, Jorgensen Gallery, Storrs, CT
2023 Solo Exhibition, Endangered Animals, Brooks Room Gallery, Wilbraham, MA
2020 Juried Group Exhibition, The House of Art, Monson Arts Council, Monson, MA Honorable Mention
2020 Juried Group Exhibition, Big Cats, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY 2009 Solo Exhibition, Full Autonomy, Starbucks Gallery, Avon, CT
2008 Juried Group Exhibition, Dane Gallery and Gallery 137, Springfield, MA
2007 Juried Group Exhibition, The House of Art, Monson Arts Council, Monson, MA Honorable Mention
2006 Solo Exhibition, Fruitful Abundance, Starbucks Gallery, Longmeadow, MA
2005 Two Woman Exhibition, The Fruits of our Labor, Dane Gallery, Springfield, MA
2004 Solo Exhibition, I am Mother, Val-Ray Gallery, Glastonbury, CT
2003 Juried Group Exhibition, The House of Art Gallery, Monson Arts Council, Monson, MA Best in Category
2001 - 2003 Juried Show, Celebrate West Hartford, West Hartford, CT
2001 - 2003 Juried Show, Apple Harvest Art Show, Southington, CT - Best in Show
2001 - 2003 Juried Show, Meet the Artists and Artisans, Mystic, CT & Milford, CT
2001 - 2003 Juried Show, On the Green Art Festival, Glastonbury, CT - Best in Category
2001 - 2003 Juried Show, The Mystic Outdoor Art Festival, Mystic, CT
2002 Group Exhibition, Our Flag was Still There, Dane Gallery, Springfield, MA Exhibit also traveled throughout New England & New York
2002 Juried Show, Wickford Art Festival, North Kingston, RI - Honorable Mention
1998 Juried Show, Cultural Arts Alliance of Hopkinton, Hopkinton, MA - Best in Show
1994 Group Exhibition, BFA Senior Exhibition: 1994, The Pit Gallery, Storrs, CT
1994 Group Exhibition, Advanced Photography Student Show, The Pit Gallery, Storrs, CT
1993 Solo Exhibition, Broken Reflections, Fine Art Quadrangle, Storrs, CT
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
INTERNATIONAL: Canada, Denmark, Dubai, England, Italy, Mexico
NATIONAL: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Florida, Kansas, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont,
Virginia, West Virginia
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
MGM Grand Springfield & Mass Mutual Center, Springfield, MA
Shriner's Hospital of New England, Springfield, MA
Worthington Vineyards, Somers, CT
Writing in the Skies , Westhampton, MA
Pioneer Valley Montessori, Springfield, MA
St. Mary’s Catholic School, Longmeadow, MA
PRESS
2025 Magazine: Kimberly Phillips, "Beautiful Moments", UConn Today, June 20, 2025
2025 Newspaper: Maina Durafour, New Alumni Exhibition “Calming Chaos”, The Chronicle CT, Vol. 142
No.42, February 19, 2025
2018, 2020 BOOK: Boughamer, Erin Leigh, 13 Much, Self Published, June 2018 and June 2020.
Author, Artist, Designer, Editor, Self Published
EDUCATION
2023 Coursework in Glass, Kiln Casting with Dori Guthrie, Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA
2023 Coursework in Clay, Introduction to Hand Building, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
2022 Coursework in Metal, Beginner Metalsmithing, Silver Spiral Creations, WInstead CT
2022 Coursework in Glass, Lampwork 101, Silver Street Glass, North Granby, CT
2017 Coursework in Oil Painting, Smith Art Museums, Springfield, MA
2001 Coursework in Figure Drawing, Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA
1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
SELECTED LECTURES
2025 - Mercy Hospital - Corporate Engagement
2025 - Wilbraham Art League - Fine Art Lecture
2021 “UCONN School of Fine Arts Career Panel / Art & Art History”, School of Fine Art Alumni, panelist,
UCONN Center for Career Development, Storrs, CT October 2021.