Erica Bailey

Erica Bailey is a visual artist whose work spans sculpture, installation and video. She lives in California after a decade spent living and working in New York City. Originally from a small-town, working-class family in Ohio, she pursued her higher education at state colleges, earning her MFA in 2008. Exhibitions of note include: In the Space of a Breath, Roswell Museum and Art Center, NM; So Close, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Manhattan; Its memory, the memory of its ribs, its knees, its shoulders, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; and Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts. Participation in residencies include: Roswell Artist in Residence Program, the LES Studio Program, a program of Artists Alliance, Inc, and BronxArtSpace Summer Residency.

She explores perceptions of time and space through installations that combine dioramas and video and frequently turns to vernacular architecture for subject matter, seeing it as a primary means by which we delimit space and order our understanding of it. “My work exhibits a fascination with binary oppositions—particularly spatial ones such as inside/outside, close/remote—and often references events that unfold over unfathomable expanses of time and distance or realities beyond our natural means of perception.”

She has recently extended this exploration to stand-alone videos that act as visual poetry. For her thoughts on this process visit VIDEO.