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STRATUM SLAB 01 Installation

Erika Givens

United States

Installation, Plaster on Wood

Size: 29 W x 72 H x 2 D in

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About The Artwork

* WINNER * Honorable Mention, Mixed Media Beverly Hills Art Show, 2020 This piece is a composition of plaster, and acrylic in resin on birch board. I first poured plaster in rivulet-like channels into which I later poured resin. The white chalky stone-like bands of plaster with a sinewy and porous texture contrast with the glassy, water-like streams of colored resin, creating a constantly changing topography and stratified landscape. I designed the color palette so that every grouping of 4-5 layers would work together as it's own distinct family but also work within the larger palette on the whole. The concept for the Stratum Slab series was inspired by my interest in maps, as well as, the long, layered, east/west, mountain-to-ocean views common across California, and San Diego in particular. Because my neighborhood is perfectly situated in the undulating low lying hills somewhere between the warm toned, bright, rugged high desert and the cool toned, soft, gradual ocean coast, we can typically see in both directions for miles and miles. As I move between these environments in different seasons and times of day, my eye is drawn to these endless, multi-layered bands of morphing horizons on display.

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Installation:Plaster on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:29 W x 72 H x 2 D in

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ERIKA'S BACKGROUND • Erika Givens, a contemporary mixed media artist living and working in San Diego, California, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area with a fascination for drawing, creating elaborate Lego cities and towns for her Hot Wheel cars. Focused on becoming an urban planner, she graduated from UC Santa Barbara (in Environmental Studies/Political Science) but the pull toward art eventually lead her to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. After graduating, she landed at the Nokia Design Center in Los Angeles to work as a Senior Graphic Designer for the Asia Pacific region. She later moved on to other creative pursuits at various design firms in the Bay Area. Then in 2004, she ventured out on her own and launched GLEAUX (pronounced *glow*), a custom San Francisco-based stationery and invitation design studio. After relocating to San Diego in 2012 along with her husband Chad, and three young children, Luke, Reid, and Brooklyn, she transitioned her studio from graphic design to creating mixed media wall sculptures. Over time, she’s managed to build a uniquely personal portfolio of artwork that has found its way into distinguished galleries, international art shows, a handful of world class hotels and private home collections across the globe. ERIKA'S WORK • While her pieces each communicate their own visual cadence and dimensional rhythm, each also represents a different process and aesthetic. The inspiration behind her work springs from all things organic, geometric, textured, patterned, curiously meticulous, and peculiarly beautiful. Her materials usually come from the sea or the soil, and can include such things as dried plant life, marine material, pods, seeds, wood, shells, natural botanical fibers, clay, etc. These objects are then often hand-manipulated, resurfaced, reshaped, and rearranged, in such a way as to become a new abstracted whole. The circle is an element central to a lot of her work because it symbolizes balance, healing, self, interconnectedness, infinity, perfection, cyclical time/movement, and unification. In studying the circle, she has also found inspiration in repeating patterns, micrographic line art, antique botanical and aquatic engravings, the vector of a curve, the fluidity and life force of water, dimension in sculpture, and texture in organic surfaces. A huge part of her work is execution.

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Showed at the The Other Art Fair

Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in Los Angeles, Los Angeles

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