Erica Mahinay

Selected Works

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Partitioning
2024
oil on linen / olio su lino
183 × 210.8 cm (72 × 83 inches)

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In Lieu of Flowers
2024
oil on linen / olio su lino
183 × 210.8 cm (72 × 83 inches)

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Volition
2024
oil on linen / olio su lino
183 × 243.8 cm (72 × 96 inches)

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Growth Spurt
2024
oil on linen / olio su lino
183 × 210.8 cm (72 × 83 inches)

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Rumoring
2023
oil on linen
284.5 × 365.7 cm (112 × 144 inches)

Erica Mahinay_Works_29_sito — Erica Mahinay

Might
2022
oil on sewn linen
112 × 144 inches (284.48 × 365.76 cm)

Erica Mahinay_Works_33_sito — Erica Mahinay

Always Already
2023
oil on linen
284.5 × 365.7 cm (112 × 144 inches)

Erica Mahinay_Works_21_sito — Erica Mahinay

Unearth, or; Sun Climb
2023
oil on canvas
157.5 × 147.3 cm (62 × 58 inches)

Erica Mahinay_Works_17_sito — Erica Mahinay

Sweat
2023
oil on canvas
157.5 × 147.3 cm (62 × 58 inches)

Erica Mahinay_Works_05_sito — Erica Mahinay

Impossible Thaw
2023
oil on linen
157.5 × 147.3 cm (62 × 58 inches)

Erica Mahinay_Works_01_sito — Erica Mahinay

Romance with Smog, or On Antogher Day, Marine Layer
2022
oil on linen
62 × 58 inches (157.48 × 147.32 cm)

Erica Mahinay_Works_09_sito — Erica Mahinay

Sun Dreched Balance Beaming
2022
oil on linen
37 × 37 inches (93.98 × 93.98 cm)

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Half Light Mood Swing
2022
oil on canvas
54 × 36 inches

ERMA:P 8418, Erica Mahinay,Romance with Smog, or on Another Day, Marine Layer, 2020-2021 — Erica Mahinay

Romance with Smog, or on Another Day, Marine Layer
2020-2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk and poplar
60 × 40 inches

ERMA:P 8417, Erica Mahinay,Fever, 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Fever
2021
raw pigment and acrylic on dyed silk, gold leaf
96 × 70 inches

ERMA:P 8416, Erica Mahinay,Tomorrow Shadow, 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Tomorrow Shadow
2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk and poplar
32 × 24 inches

ERMA:P 8450, Erica Mahinay,Latona, 2020-2021 — Erica Mahinay

Latona
2020-2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk
73 × 58 inches (185.42 × 147.32 cm)

ERMA:P 8452, Erica Mahinay,Bathers, 2021jpeg — Erica Mahinay

Bathers
2021
raw pigment on dyed and singed silk
73 × 58 inches (185.42 × 147.32 cm)

ERMA:P 7649, Erica Mahinay,Inverted (Half Light), 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Inverted (Half Light)
2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk and poplar
81.3 × 61 cm (32 × 24 inches)

ERMA:P 7650, Erica Mahinay,Inverted (Press Through), 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Inverted (Press Through)
2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk, poplar
81.3 × 61 cm (32 × 24 inches)

ERMA:P 8275, Erica Mahinay,Time Traveler (Sifting), 2020-21 — Erica Mahinay

Time Traveler (Sifting)
2020-21
raw pigment and acrylic on silk, poplar
60 × 40 inches (152.40 × 101.60 cm)

ERMA:P 8469, Erica Mahinay,Heat, or Accidental Ever, 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Heat, or: Accidental Ever
2021
dyed and burned silk
210.8 × 182.9 cm (83 × 72 inches)

ERMA:P 8467, Erica Mahinay,Embers, 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Embers
2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk and poplar
37 × 37 inches (93.98 × 93.98 cm)

ERMA:P 8468, Erica Mahinay,Séance with LUCA, 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Séance with LUCA
2021
dyed silk
37 × 37 inches (93.98 × 93.98 cm)

ERMA:P 8462, Erica Mahinay,Inverted, Folding in On, 2020-2021 — Erica Mahinay

Inverted, Folding in On
2020-2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk and poplar
72 × 83 inches (182.88 × 210.82 cm)

ERMA:P 8413, Erica Mahinay, Blip Tracing, 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Blip Tracing
2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk
36.8 × 50.8 cm

ERMA 8445, Erica Mahinay,Observation Field (From the Mirage of Hurrying Time), 2020-2021 — Erica Mahinay

Observation Field (From the Mirage of Hurrying Time)
2020-2021
raw pigment and acrylic on silk
70 × 94 inches (177.80 × 238.76 cm)

ERMA:P 8448, Erica Mahinay,Stretching Present, or n is the number of degrees of freedom for this energy landscape, 2021 — Erica Mahinay

Stretching Present, or: n is the number of degrees of freedom for this energy landscape
2021
dyed and singed silk
72 × 96 inches (182.88 × 243.84 cm)

ERMA:P 8466, Erica Mahinay,Test Site (Field), 2020 — Erica Mahinay

Test Site (Field)
2020
acrylic on silk, poplar
62 × 66 inches (157.48 × 167.64 cm)

Mahinay-2023-10-11_021 — Erica Mahinay

Self-Reflection Station (Standing Masculine Me)
2023
steel, gypsum bandage, silicon, sand, mirror, aluminium, glass, daisies
198.1 × 83.8 × 88.9 cm

Mahinay-2023-10-11_001 — Erica Mahinay

Forthcoming
2023
oil on linen
* 284.5 × 365.7 cm

Mahinay-2023-10-11_002 — Erica Mahinay

Lunar Tryst
2022-2023
acrylic and raw pigment on half silk parachute, lead, aluminium, ostrich feathers
* 284.5 × 365.7 cm

Mahinay-2023-10-11_013 — Erica Mahinay

Self-Reflection Station ( Resting Form)
2022-2023
steel, wood, gypsum bandage, silicon, sand, glass, lead, glazed ceramic, daisies
* 137.1 × 152.4 × 78.7 cm

Mahinay-2022-12-16_024 — Erica Mahinay

Self-Reflection Station (Seated Form)
2022-2023
steel, wood, gypsum bandage, silicon, sand, glass
* 122 × 61 × 88.9 cm

Biography

Born in 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Erica Mahinay lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, US and her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City. With her attention on the senses, Erica Mahinay’s work prompts touch, conjuring visual encounters out of physical experience. Translucency, sheen, and porosity are some of the qualities that demonstrate how Mahinay engages the body’s inherent corporeal intellect. Contemporary neuroscience supports the notion that upon encountering visual art, the intertwining of the senses leads to more expansive bodily sensations. Smooth, permeable, wet, dry, sticky, powdery, seeping and transforming surfaces entwine with one another in compositions that are at times abstract, at times suggestive of subtle figuration on the cusp of legibility. In these borderlands, touch serves as the implicit compass for navigating our human experience in which the sensual is inseparable from the perceptual and conceptual. The artistic practice of Mahinay celebrates the experience of being human — of being a body in space and extending conscious experience through time — by means of her investigation with image, surface, and materiality. Her embrace of imperfection and vulnerability invites the viewer to engage in a compelling ritual of enticement and seduction while she augments and deconstructs the basic mechanics of a painting: its surface and support. Surfaces are folded, puckered and inverted, pressed against support. Mahinay’s work continues the history of artists using their own bodies in acts of rebellion, protest, and celebration to actualize and liberate the self. Her improvised movements, evidenced by the trace, demonstrate a conscious pursuit of an embodied image, a groping and slipping for self-reinvention, and for connection. Resulting irregularities and trace compose a topography of kinesthetic and rhythmic intelligence that evidences intimacy and arrive at a place that is both fragile and fierce.

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

18.07.2022

Etichette d'artista, per vestire bottiglie da collezione

01.11.2014

ARTRIBUNE

Il ritorno al quotidiano. Erica Mahinay e la materia narrante

We are excited to unveil a series of new works by Erica Mahinay that exemplify her ongoing investigation into the application of paint through the use of both brushes and hands.

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Education

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

Selected solo exhibitions

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

Selected group exhibitions

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

Selected Works

Partitioning

In Lieu of Flowers

Volition

Growth Spurt

Rumoring

Might

Always Already

Unearth, or; Sun Climb

Sweat

Impossible Thaw

Romance with Smog, or On Antogher Day, Marine Layer

Sun Dreched Balance Beaming

Half Light Mood Swing

Romance with Smog, or on Another Day, Marine Layer

Fever

Tomorrow Shadow

Latona

Bathers

Inverted (Half Light)

Inverted (Press Through)

Time Traveler (Sifting)

Heat, or: Accidental Ever

Embers

Séance with LUCA

Inverted, Folding in On

Blip Tracing

Observation Field (From the Mirage of Hurrying Time)

Stretching Present, or: n is the number of degrees of freedom for this energy landscape

Test Site (Field)

Monster

Self-Reflection Station (Standing Masculine Me)

Forthcoming

Lunar Tryst

Self-Reflection Station ( Resting Form)

Self-Reflection Station (Seated Form)

Biography

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

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