ERIKA BRICH
Mixed Media
Born and raised in Los Angeles, I come from a family of artists and musicians. Before receiving my BFA from UCLA, and my MFA from American Film Institute (with twenty years as a scenic artist in-between), I spent a childhood learning to draw and paint and sew, and to make endless creations from what was at hand: beads, wire, scraps of fabric, clay, twigs, feathers, and paints. My hands have a vital need to MAKE, and to play and experiment with everything new. I still love working with pen and paper; but more often now I find myself reaching for needle and thread, and calling up the lessons from my aunties and mothers, to make adornments, to fashion dolls from the detritus of women's work, and from the forest floor. Abandoned handkerchiefs, old beads, the husks of unknown creatures, remade to live again.
Mixed Media
Born and raised in Los Angeles, I come from a family of artists and musicians. Before receiving my BFA from UCLA, and my MFA from American Film Institute (with twenty years as a scenic artist in-between), I spent a childhood learning to draw and paint and sew, and to make endless creations from what was at hand: beads, wire, scraps of fabric, clay, twigs, feathers, and paints. My hands have a vital need to MAKE, and to play and experiment with everything new. I still love working with pen and paper; but more often now I find myself reaching for needle and thread, and calling up the lessons from my aunties and mothers, to make adornments, to fashion dolls from the detritus of women's work, and from the forest floor. Abandoned handkerchiefs, old beads, the husks of unknown creatures, remade to live again.
