Erica Bailey

Erica Bailey is a visual artist based in New York City, originally from a small-town, working-class family in Ohio. She moved to New York in 2012 after accepting a position with The City College of New York managing the sculpture facilities. Exhibitions include: In the space of a breath, Roswell Museum and Art Center; 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, Bronx Museum of the Arts. Previous residencies include: The RAiR Foundation, BronxArtSpace, NARS Foundation, and LES Studio Program, a program of Artists Alliance, Inc.

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.