Erica Mahinay
Selected Works
Bombshell
2024oil and absorbent ground on paper
125.73 × 96.52 cm (49 ½ × 38 inches)
Work on paper
Please Please
2024oil and absorbent ground on paper
24.13 × 36.83 cm (9 ½ × 14 ½ inches)
Work on paper
With Fullness
2024oil and absorbent ground on paper
33.02 × 36.83 cm (13 × 14 ½ inches)
Plenty
2024oil and absorbent ground on paper
24.13 × 36.83 cm (9 ½ × 14 ½ inches)
Another Pink Potential
2024oil and absorbent ground on paper
24.13 × 36.83 cm (9 ½ × 14 ½ inches)
Unreason
2024oil and absorbent ground on paper
33.02 × 36.83 cm (13 × 14 ½ inches)
Relish
2024oil and absorbent ground on paper
33.02 × 36.83 cm (13 × 14 ½ inches)
Undone Up
2024oil and absorbent ground on paper
24.13 × 36.83 cm (9 ½ × 14 ½ inches)
Partitioning
2024oil on linen / olio su lino
183 × 210.8 cm (72 × 83 inches)
Rumoring
2023oil on linen
284.5 × 365.7 cm (112 × 144 inches)
Always Already
2023oil on linen
284.5 × 365.7 cm (112 × 144 inches)
Unearth, or; Sun Climb
2023oil on canvas
157.5 × 147.3 cm (62 × 58 inches)
Busy Undoing
2022oil on linen
94 × 94 cm (37 × 37 inches)
Sweat
2023oil on canvas
157.5 × 147.3 cm (62 × 58 inches)
Impossible Thaw
2023oil on linen
157.5 × 147.3 cm (62 × 58 inches)
Forthcoming
2023oil on linen
* 284.5 × 365.7 cm
Lunar Tryst
2022-2023acrylic and raw pigment on half silk parachute, lead, aluminium, ostrich feathers
* 284.5 × 365.7 cm
Self-Reflection Station (Standing Masculine Me)
2023steel, gypsum bandage, silicon, sand, mirror, aluminium, glass, daisies
198.1 × 83.8 × 88.9 cm
Self-Reflection Station (Seated Form)
2022-2023steel, wood, gypsum bandage, silicon, sand, glass
* 122 × 61 × 88.9 cm
Self-Reflection Station ( Resting Form)
2022-2023steel, wood, gypsum bandage, silicon, sand, glass, lead, glazed ceramic, daisies
* 137.1 × 152.4 × 78.7 cm
Might
2022oil on sewn linen
112 × 144 inches (284.48 × 365.76 cm)
Romance with Smog, or On Antogher Day, Marine Layer
2022oil on linen
62 × 58 inches (157.48 × 147.32 cm)
Sun Dreched Balance Beaming
2022oil on linen
37 × 37 inches (93.98 × 93.98 cm)
Half Light Mood Swing
2022oil on canvas
54 × 36 inches
Heat, or: Accidental Ever
2021dyed and burned silk
210.8 × 182.9 cm (83 × 72 inches)
Embers
2021raw pigment and acrylic on silk and poplar
37 × 37 inches (93.98 × 93.98 cm)
Observation Field (From the Mirage of Hurrying Time)
2020-2021raw pigment and acrylic on silk
70 × 94 inches (177.80 × 238.76 cm)
Monster
2020raw pigment and acrylic on silk
16 × 20 inches
Inverted (Half Light)
2021raw pigment and acrylic on silk and poplar
81.3 × 61 cm (32 × 24 inches)
Inverted, Folding in On
2020-2021raw pigment and acrylic on silk and poplar
72 × 83 inches (182.88 × 210.82 cm)
My hand sets the scale for my knowns. Collecting events, emerging, repeating.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
No past or future, but still, duration. No person here. Dry bone and breath. Smooth marble columns. A shudder.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
Revolution on a cellular level. To fix a boundary is to misuse it.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
I have heard that knowledge is just a rumor until it is felt in the body. We become increasingly inappropriate. Rumors spread till I know. I know I know I know.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
Granular. Indeterminate. Relational. I leave myself unfinished, imperfect.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
Withering. Blurred celebration of continuity. A house in LA.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
Time returns us to ourselves. Out of bounds and vulnerable. Sunbathing.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
ΔS ≥ 0, darling.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
Index of vision. XXX. Approximations.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
Shining eyes and silent slink. With much tenderness; Yours; Luck and courage out there.
2019acrylic pigment and medium on dyed silk, poplar
153 × 102 cm (60 ¼ × 40 ⅛ inches)
Biography
Gallery Exhibitions
Other Venues
Selected Press
New Works: Erica Mahinay
Studio Visit
CV
2013
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, United States
2008
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, United States
2007
Italy Study Abroad Program, KCAI/Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence
2023
“Moving From and For” T293, Rome
2022
‘Surfaces’, F&deO, Madrid
2021
‘The Bright Place Idea’, Lyles & King, New York
2019
‘Let the Breath Breathe Itself’, Lyles & King, New York
‘Sun Seekers’, HGA Architecture / Euclid, Los Angeles
‘Contingent’, T293, Rome
2017
‘Visions From the Personal Growth Laboratory’, Lyles & King, New York
2016
‘Softly, Boldly’, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles
2015
‘Thin Skins, Infinity Pools and Sand Slumps’, Fused Space/Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
2014
‘At the Tip of the Tongue’, Loudhailer, Los Angeles, United States
‘Sunbathing in the Shadow of the Volcano’, T293, Naples
2024
‘What Dreams May Come’, Make Room, L.A.
‘Signal to noise’, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, L.A.
2023
‘Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2022
‘LA Dreams 3 Light Touch’, CFHILL, Stockholm
‘Electric Affinities’, T293 Rome
2021
Zidoun Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
Lyles & King, New York, United States
‘Surfaces’, Nino Mier
2020
‘Imperfect Clocks’, CHART, New York
‘End Demo’, Epoch, an artist-run virtual experiment (online)
2019
‘Touch Knows You Before Language’, Lyles & King, New York
‘The Shape of Content’, OCHI Projects, Los Angeles
2018
‘Metamorphosis, Lightly (Intimacy of Form)’, Oof Books, Los Angeles
‘Dead Eden’, Lyles & King, New York
2016
‘Boys and Girls Can Still Draw’, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
‘Roman A Clef And/Or The Appetite Of The Chef (Part 2)’, curated by Mateo Tannatt, Rainbow in Spanish, Los Angeles
‘Miranda’, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
‘On my volcano grows the Grass’, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles
‘Together / Alone’, EMBASSY, Los Angeles
2015
MEAT RAFFLE: Timo Fahler, Erica Mahinay, Kyle Patrick Roberts, Mary Weatherford, BBQ LA, Los Angeles
Saline Communion / Erica Mahinay & Kathryn O’Halloran, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles
2014
‘THE GO BETWEEN. A selection of emerging international artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection’, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
‘DTW>>>LAX: Introductions’, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles
2013
‘First Annual Art Book Fair’, Plug Projects, Kansas City
2012
‘Kansas City Flatfile’, Biennial Invitational Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City
‘Stereotype’, Detroit Opera House, Detroit
‘XOXO Salon Show’, S.B.G Gallery, Kansas City
2011
‘Re-Describe’, Cocoon Gallery, Kansas City
‘Artist in Residence Exhibition’, Pembroke Hill High School, Kansas City
‘Converging Currents’, Forum Gallery + Butter Projects, Bloomfield Hills
‘Failure’, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills
2010
‘Bread & Butter: a Pop-up Shop’, Spool, Kansas City
‘mis-place – re-trace’, Stairway Art Space, Kansas City
‘Kansas City Flatfile’, Biennial Invitational Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City
‘CUMULUS: An Urban Culture Project Residency Focus Exhibition’, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City
2008
‘Objects for the Space in Between/Space for the Objects in Between’, Syringe Gallery, Kansas City
2007
‘Inscapes and Adaptations’, Crossroads Gallery, Kansas City