Erica Everage
Featured Works
Overview
Erica Everage (b. 1987) is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her process is driven by mark-making, an interest in how a transformative sequence is recorded, and oriented around specific materials. Everage works with color, texture, and structure while evolving ancient or abandoned imagery in contemporary forms. Folding the past into the present, she finds blurry connections between history and memory, with attention to perennial—though perhaps forgotten—symbols that determine relations between gendered modes of embodiment and (recognizable) categories of identity. In particular, many of the figures from which she works in abstraction are ancient feminine Western deities or icons—such as the Sheela na gig—once placed above doors and entrances as guardians of liminal spaces. At the same time, her use of interstitial materials, such as burlap and artificial turf sub-base, suggests that this engagement with voids via voided, discarded, or in-between substances begins on the level of the substrates of her work. ​She received an MFA from Otis College of Art & Design and a BA from Northwestern University. Her work has recently been exhibited at Hotel Figueroa, The Bolsky Gallery, and Reisig & Taylor Contemporary in Los Angeles.
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