Erika Ranee’s paintings evoke the passage of time as she builds up color and mark through multiple processes. She employs a wide array of materials in her work, including acrylic, spray paint, graphite, shellac, and collage. Her resulting inventions of glassy color lacquers, crackled earth-toned pigments, atomized sprays of dayglo, and inscribed linear elements conjure a complex and beguiling language of visual forms.
Outside Exhibition
Erika Ranee at P•P•O•W
Erika Ranee is showing work in a group show at P•P•O•W Gallery in Tribeca titled Side Lined. The exhibition "brings together a diverse group of painters who have committed decades to their practices." On view through May 10th, 2025.
Conversation
A Conversation with Erika Ranee
Erika Ranee was featured on the Cerebral Women podcast, in discussion with Phyllis Hollis. Ranee discusses black abstraction, her early interest in craft, and the musicality of the street noise outside of her studio.
Exhibition Review
Erika Ranee: Feelings at Duck Creek
Erika Ranee solo show Feelings was reviewed by Riad Miah for Art Spiel. The reviewer traces the evolution of Ranee’s early-career paintings to the ones currently on view at The Art Center at Duck Creek and concludes with praise for the artist’s mastery of her unique technique.
Museum Exhibition
Erika Ranee at Moss Arts Center
"How Are Things on My End," a solo show of Erika Ranee paintings is on view at the Moss Arts Center in Virginia. "Ranee pokes fun at selfie culture and the narcissism inherent with being an artist and making art about oneself through the titling of her exhibition and artworks. In the show title, How Are Things on My End, Ranee switches 'your' with 'me.' In doing so, Ranee says, '[it] flips the switch on typical caring comments' and serves as a 'play on selfie/me/vain culture.'" The exhibition is on view June 6 - August 30, 2024.
Catalog for Purchase
Erika Ranee All Natural, 2023
Erika Ranee All Natural (2023), a catalog produced on the occasion of the artist’s solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is available for purchase! The catalogue consists of 28 pages in full color.
Review
Erika Ranee Shows Her ‘Feelings’ at Duck Creek
Erika Ranee’s solo show, Feelings, and curatorial effort, All the Things, at the Arts Center at Duck Creek were reviewed by Mark Segal for The East Hampton Star. Segal not only covers the current exhibitions but also explores Ranee’s practice as a whole and her initial entry into art.
award
Erika Ranee Awarded "Anonymous Was A Woman" Grant
Erika Ranee is one of the 2023 recipients of the Anonymous Was A Woman award. The grant-making nonprofit that has awarded over $7 million to women-identifying artists since 1996.
klausgallery.cloud
Alone with my thoughts
Edition No.16 of KLAUSGALLERY.CLOUD documents the process of creating a new painting, ultimately titled “Alone with My Thoughts” by Erika Ranee
Press
Erika Ranee in Artforum
Erika Ranee’s show at Klaus von Nichtssagend was reviewed by Greg Lindquist on Artforum.com
Press
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June
Erika Ranee was singled out in a New York Times review of Painting Deconstructed, a group show at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY. You can read the review here.
Acquisition
Studio Museum Acquires Erika Ranee
Erika Ranee's painting Give Mummy a Big Kiss for Me (2013) was acquired by The Studio Museum in Harlem.
press
Erika Ranee in Bomb Magazine
An extensive interview with Erika Ranee by artist Cordy Ryman was recently published in Bomb Magazine.
