Erica Mahinay
Erica Mahinay (b. 1986, Santa Fe, NM, US) creates paintings that oscillate between the architectural and the abstract, each work utilising a unique ratio of materials and motion, colour and light, to develop distinct character through a synthesis of technical and intuitive application.
Mahinay’s process is physical, a language channeled through her body and emitted from her fingertips. Although her rich surfaces are formed through various methods of accretion and subtraction - dripping or pouring, using rollers and brushes, scrawling with an oil stick and tossing dry pigment onto wet surfaces- her predominant tools of creation are her hands. Interacting with her materials in a flowing choreography of pushes and pulls, swipes and swirls, Mahinay’s fingers imbue her compositions with posture and mass. She forms the floating shapes and luminous layers of her paintings through this dynamic contact, manipulating and negotiating via touch, feeling the plane of each engagement.
Education
2013
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2008
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Engagements, Josh Lilley, London, England
2023
Moving From and For, T293, Rome, Italy
2022
Surfaces, F&deO, Madrid, Spain
2021
The Bright Place Idea, Lyles & King, New York, NY
2019
Let the Breath Breathe Itself, Lyles & King, New York, NY
Sun Seekers, HGA Architecture / Euclid, Los Angeles, CA
Contingent, T293, Rome, Italy
2017
Visions From the Personal Growth Laboratory, Lyles & King, New York, NY
2016
Softly, Boldly, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CA
2015
Thin Skins, Infinity Pools and Sand Slumps, Fused Space/Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
Saline Communion / Erica Mahinay & Kathryn O’Halloran, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
At the Tip of the Tongue, Loudhailer, Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathing in the Shadow of the Volcano, T293, Naples, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2024
What Dreams May Come, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
Signal to noise, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2022
LA Dreams 3 Light Touch, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden
Electric Affinities, T293, Rome, Italy
2021
Zidoun Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Surfaces, Nino Mier, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Imperfect Clocks, CHART, New York, NY
End Demo, Epoch, an artist-run virtual experiment (online)
2019
Touch Knows You Before Language, Lyles & King, New York, NY
The Shape of Content, OCHI Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Metamorphosis, Lightly (Intimacy of Form), Oof Books, Los Angeles, CA
Dead Eden, Lyles & King, New York, NY
2016
Boys and Girls Can Still Draw, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
Roman A Clef And/Or The Appetite Of The Chef (Part 2), curated by Mateo Tannatt, Rainbow in Spanish, Los Angeles, CA
Miranda, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
On my volcano grows the Grass, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Together / Alone, EMBASSY, Los Angeles, CA
2015
MEAT RAFFLE: Timo Fahler, Erica Mahinay, Kyle Patrick Roberts, Mary Weatherford, BBQ LA, Los Angeles, CA
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, CA
2013
First Annual Art Book Fair, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
2012
Kansas City Flatfile, Biennial Invitational Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Stereotype, Detroit Opera House, Detroit, MI
XOXO Salon Show, S.B.G Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2011
Re-Describe, Cocoon Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Pembroke Hill High School, Kansas City, MO
Converging Currents, Forum Gallery + Butter Projects, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Failure, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2010
Bread & Butter: a Pop-up Shop, Spool, Kansas City, MO
mis-place – re-trace, Stairway Art Space, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Flatfile, Biennial Invitational Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
CUMULUS: An Urban Culture Project Residency Focus Exhibition, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2008
Objects for the Space in Between/Space for the Objects in Between, Syringe Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007
Inscapes and Adaptations, Crossroads Gallery, Kansas City, MO
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