Erika Huddleston lives and works in Dallas, Texas and received a BA in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a contributor to Aether Art Journal and Texas Architect Magazine—writing about the connections of urban design and craftsmanship and public art. She was the Artist-in-Residence with the park non-profit Shoal Creek Conservancy in Austin in 2014 and in 2017 her oil paintings
and original maps of Waco Creek were shown at the Mayborn Museum at Baylor University, with the Art Center of Waco. She has painted major bodies of work onsite in public parks: along Waco Creek in Waco, Texas, Shoal Creek in Austin, Texas, the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas, the Ramble in Central Park in New York City in 2019; and she was invited to paint and exhibit a series of paintings recording the restored Blackland Prairie behind the Botanical Research Institute of Texas [BRIT] in Ft Worth in Fall 2021. Texas Monthly in Spring 2017 named her as part of their list of the “Top Ten Texas Artists to Collect Now” and she was selected as a 2015 Hunting Prize finalist. Erika’s oil paintings record at 1:1 scale in “urban wilderness” locations the temporal natural phenomena that are not easily documented with typical landscape data-collection tactics. “I paint to record what cannot be seen on a static map and which is fleeting and hard to document, but which exists.”