Josh Lilley has announced the representation of Erica Mahinay.
Erica Mahinay (b. 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US) creates paintings that oscillate between the architectural and the abstract, each work utilising a unique ratio of materials and motion, colour and light, to develop distinct character through a synthesis of technical and intuitive application.
Mahinay’s process is physical, a language channeled through her body and emitted from her fingertips. Although her rich surfaces are formed through various methods of accretion and subtraction- dripping or pouring, using rollers and brushes, scrawling with an oil stick and tossing dry pigment onto wet surfaces – her predominant tools of creation are her hands. Interacting with her materials in a flowing choreography of pushes and pulls, swipes and swirls, Mahinay’s fingers imbue her compositions with posture and mass. She forms the floating shapes and luminous layers of her paintings through this dynamic contact, manipulating and negotiating via touch, feeling the plane of each engagement.
Mahinay’s first UK solo exhibition took place at Josh Lilley in London in April 2025 and the gallery will present new work this December at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Lilley, London. Photo by Charles White
Mahinay lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City. Mahinay has had recent solo exhibitions at T293, Rome; Lyles and King, New York and F&deO, Madrid. Recent group exhibitions include Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; LA Dreams 3 Light Touch, CFHILL, Stockholm; What Dreams May Come, Make Room, Los Angeles and Once the Block is Carved, There Will Be Names, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels. Her work is held in public collections including the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles and the Pinault Collection, Paris.
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