ABOUT / CV

b.1987

Los Angeles, CA

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Currently works and lives in Los Angeles

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Erica Everage is a painter currently working in sculptural form, exploring the threshold between past and future, artifact and invention. Her work seeks to make the ancient contemporary and to render the present as future relic.

Through raw pigments, natural dyes, charcoal, resins, and wax layered over reclaimed burlap, wood, or recycled foam subturf, she builds surfaces that evoke the time-worn textures of eroding walls, subterranean frescoes, and archaeological ruins.

At the core of Erica’s practice is a figurative excavation of ancient “female” bodies and symbols—Sheela na gigs, Baubos, apotropaic anasyrma, and other unabashed archetypes of power. These forms are reinterpreted through a contemporary feminist lens, reclaiming suppressed narratives and celebrating bodily forms long distorted or occluded by patriarchal systems. Gestures and symbols often emerge as pentimenti—haunting, half-seen, insisting on re-visibility.

Erica views her current body of work as speculative future artifacts, created in an age of ecological precarity and societal unraveling. Recycled foam subturf—once hidden beneath artificial landscapes—serves as both material and metaphor: a synthetic remnant transformed into a foundation for imagining new myths.

What enigmatic vestiges will future archaeologists uncover when they dig through the rubble of our time? What symbols of resistance, reverence, or ritual will remain?

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