Biography
Erika Wastrom (b. 1984, Barnstable, MA) lives and works in Barnstable, MA. Her paintings are immediate and direct, moving nimbly between narrative and stylistic considerations that include collage-like, two-dimensional portraits and still lifes. Her work is a color-saturated world of texture, pattern, figures, and inspired objects—off-kilter scenes and tablescapes comprised of a rich variety of ordinary objects and heirloom quality artifacts.
Wastrom received her MFA from Boston University in 2012, and recent solo exhibitions include Erika Wastrom, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA; In Light of Nothing, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA; This Must be the Place, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA; and group exhibitions Hold Run, Gaa Gallery Provincetown, MA; Against Forgetting, Gaa Gallery Provincetown, MA; Summertime, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA; New Talent, ArtSTRAND, Provincetown, MA; and Asterisk Projects, AAF, New York.
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