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Erika Ranee

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Review

Erika Ranee Reviewed in The East Hampton Star

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. Read the full article here.

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.

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.

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.