Erica Mahinay, 'Volition', 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Josh Lilley, London
Josh Lilley is pleased to present 'Engagements', the first UK solo presentation by Erica Mahinay. Mahinay constructs her paintings by dripping or pouring paint, using rollers and brushes, scrawling with an oil stick and tossing dry pigment onto wet surfaces. Her dynamic technique layers paint and then wipes it away – resulting in a luminescent skin – a bedrock of optical colour that glows beneath the surface. This is followed by a more gradual, contemplative dialogue as a composition evolves, a call and response approach in the pursuit of illusionistic space. Her aqueous painterly style produces a gestural aesthetic, where...
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Erica Mahinay, 'Summoned and Swept', 2025. Oil on linen, 224 x 200 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Josh Lilley, London. Photo:Charles White
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Erica Mahinay, 'Passage', 2025. Oil on linen, 183 x 153 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Josh Lilley, London. Photo: Charles White
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Erica Mahinay, 'Anti-Gravity Dance ii (Wrath)', 2025. Oil on linen, 224 x 198 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Josh Lilley, London. Photo: Charles White.
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Erica Mahinay. Photo by Juilien Sage, Los Angeles, CA, 2023. Courtesy of the Artist.
Erica Mahinayn (b. 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, US 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&de...
