Erika Mahr

Born in New York, NY / Works in Hudson Valley, NY

BIO

Erika Mahr lives and works in New York. She earned a BFA from the University of Florida and MFA from Hunter College. Mahr has had solo exhibitions at Launch F18 Gallery, Hap Gallery, and The Susan B. Hilles Gallery and her work has been included in several group exhibitions and fairs including at K. Imperial Gallery, New Hampshire Institute, Theirry Goldberg Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery, White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts, the Seattle Art Fair, Art on Paper, among others. Mahr received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2009.

Mahr’s work examines the coexistence and tension between our analytical and emotive experiences of the world through the use of geometric forms and ephemeral surfaces. Flat shape and atmospheric space establish spatial tension, pushing the viewer in and out of the drawing. Drawn and sanded-down chalkboard surfaces create a dense fog that is interrupted by slivers of white lines and jarring empty shapes. The work in the Erasure series reflects a moment of change, loss of self, reinvention, and growth for the artist, mirroring the atemporal qualities of memory and early motherhood.