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
“and” - a moment between two end points that serve the purpose of connecting two words that are meant 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.
Selected Exhibitions
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
EXIT
Exit Galleries, Boston MA
SE ACULILLÓ? | PRIMXS/ES | MAG-PINSAN | COUSINS
The Center For Reconciliation, Providence RI
Bye Bye
41 Meeting Street, Providence RI
Welcome to My Show
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI
In the Mood for Love
Gelman Gallery at RISD Museum, Providence RI
Paris Plus Friends
233 Westminster St, Providence RI
Vista Panoramica
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh NY
RISD Sculpture Triennale
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI
+ Friends Pop Up Shop
The Wurks, Providence RI
the Jam (Exhibition and Commission)
Providence RI
Lost & Exhibition
Gelman Gallery at RISD Museum, Providence RI
NEWBURGH OPEN STUDIOS - 2017
Newburgh, NY
PVD Field Day
Providence RI
PVD Fest
Providence RI
The Wurks Art Expo
Providence RI
Teran Studio: Black and White Gala
Newburgh, NY
RISD ARTIST BOOK COMPETITION
Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library, Providence, RI
ART ABOUT WATER
Newburgh NY
Heal Haiti Benefit Events
Poughkeepsie, NY
Beacon Artist Union National Exhibition: Apocalypse
Beacon, NY
Garrison Art Center's National Exhibition: PHOTOcentric
Garrison, NY