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 2007 from University of Cincinnati. Exhibitions of note include: In the Space of a Breath, Roswell Museum; So Close, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space; Its memory, the memory of its ribs, its knees, its shoulders, Smack Mellon; and Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Participation in residencies include: RAiR (Roswell Artist in Residence); 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.