ABOUT / CV
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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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EDUCATION
2023 - Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA - MFA Fine Art
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2010 - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - B.A., Theatre
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2005 - Apprentice to Robert Graham, Venice, CA
GRANTS & AWARDS
2017 - Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Winterim Intensive Scholarship ​
2005 - The Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Award, 2nd Place, 2D Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 - In Her Image, Hotel Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA
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2023 - Divine Hag, The Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2023 - LA WEEKLY: Meet Archaeomythological Painter Erica Everage, by Shana Nys Dambrot
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2023 - CBS/KCAL NEWS: Artist Erica Everage highlights feminine power through her paintings
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2023 - Forbes: Pantone Has Declared 2023 the Year of Viva Magenta, by Lauren Mowery
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2023 - Spectrum SoCal Scene Interview with Erica for IN HER IMAGE at Hotel Figueroa
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2023 - CBS Evening News Feature: LA Landmark Honors Pioneering Women
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2023 - Forbes: How These Destinations Curated Experiences For Women’s History Month
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2023 - Conde Nast Traveler: 6 Hotels in the US that Influenced Women's History, by Abbie Kozolchyk
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2019 - Margaret Lazzari, et al. Drawing: A Sketch and Textbook, Oxford University Press
2024 - The Middle Becomes Eclectic, The Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2024 - The Drawing Show, Gallery SADE, Los Angeles, CA
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2024 - The Rendezvous, MEY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2024 - After, Culver Hotel, presented by Reisig & Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
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2024-2026 - Art in Embassies, group exhibition at residence of Ambassador Robin Dunnigan, Tbilisi, Georgia
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2023 - Skins, Holes & Hovels, Reisig & Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
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2023 - Chords2Cure Benefit, Reisig & Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
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2023 - Body Language, The Cooler x The Reclaim, Fresno, CA
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2022 - Open Doors, Otis MFA Graduate Studios, Los Angeles, CA
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2022 - The First Turn, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2018, Crush/Repeat 2018, LOVECITYLOVE, Seattle, WA
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2016 - Small Works Exhibition, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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2016 - Enduring Endeavors, Sulkin/Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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