ABOUT / CV
EDUCATION
b.1987
Los Angeles, CA
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Currently works and lives in Los Angeles
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"Erica Everage’s 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."
-- Text courtesy of Zach Baker, Reisig & Taylor Contemporary
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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
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2005 - The Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Award, 2nd Place, 2D Design
SOLO 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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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
AND FESTIVALS
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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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