While I can’t remember exactly when I first saw Erika Ranee’s work, I’d come across it over the years, and it always appealed to me. I became more familiar with it in the spring of 2021 when I was at Freight + Volume installing my own show and spent some time with Erika’s works in the back room. I liked the comfortable, effortless way she seemed to use colors, and I felt a kinship with the free use of abstraction, compositional parameters, and structures. Poured color, layers, drawing, evaporation, and chance all blended into a single organism. The works seemed to breath, were natural, alive, and true, not contrived, stifled, or trapped. After this I started following Erika’s work more closely, and we began conversing. Read More