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 spent her early career exploring perceptions of time and space through installations that combined dioramas and video. She frequently turned to vernacular architecture for subject matter, seeing it as a primary means by which we delimit space and order our understanding of it. “This work betrays 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 begun address and expand upon these themes in stand-alone videos that act as visual poetry. For her thoughts on this process visit VIDEO.