Euclid Gallery Exhibit – Sun Seekers
Erica Manihay
Erica Mahinay is a Los Angeles-based artist born in Santa Fe, California in 1986. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute. Her work emphasizes the senses, exploring touch and physical experience as a means of creating visual encounters. Mahinay’s compositions feature surfaces that are smooth, permeable, wet, dry, sticky, powdery, seeping, and transforming, engaging with the viewer’s bodily sensations. She celebrates imperfection and vulnerability, using her own body to liberate the self and create intimacy in her art. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and collections.
See more at EricaMahinay.studio and on Instagram: @eyemahinay
To break away from the idea of gesture as mark making or the desire to leave an individual stamp, but rather, see that each piece is a journey to create a whole out of parts, a process of negotiation through material. The result is evident in the way imperfections are integrated into the work. The word “seamlessly” keeps coming to mind: how its association is always positive: “without obvious joints,” reads the dictionary, when really, the joints are where the stuff of life. everything happens.