Education and Academic Research 

2015-2019 :: Rhode Island School of Design : Undergraduate BFA

2017 :: Cross Registration at Brown University: Generative Sound Systems

2013 :: Columbia University Pre-college: Drawing 

2012 :: Barnard Pre-College : Music and Cultural Anthropology 

2002-2015 :: Poughkeepsie Day School : Kindergarten - Highschool

2011-2014 :: Independent Research in Developmental Psychology 

From the years 2011-2014 Erica conducted an independent study regarding the cognitive development of young children and its relationship to standardized testing. Documentary of research: https://vimeo.com/83275357

Artist statement

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“and” is a moment between two end points which allows two words to function jointly. While “and” is an intermediary, and physical separation, it is essential to maintaining the meaning, weight and identity of the parts and of the whole.

My work explores the productive confusion of navigating the world from a mixed raced female identifying body. I seek to embrace and destroy the boundaries, definitions, and frameworks around architecture and urban landscapes as both habitable and utilitarian, skateable and sculptural, using the metaphor of pickling as a representation of bodies, spaces, and identity as a continuum.

Through this work I seek empowerment in betweenness; the act of moving and the process of becoming as something more than a means of arriving at an endpoint but a state in itself that in its metamorphosis is powerful.

A cucumber being pickled welcomes transformation as a means of preservation, but through that process is a production of a new.

In the act of skateboarding through, upon, and with architecture, there is a transformation of a space that produces something new, while still maintaining and recognizing its original or intended purpose.

Through reconciliation of points A and B is the production and necessity of the space and travel between them, without emphasizing their separation but welcoming their connectivity.

My work is this and that.

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