Erika Ewel
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Biography
Untitled
Oil on Canvas
14” x 11”
Erika Ewel lives in La Paz, Bolivia. She studied drawing with Roberto Valcárcel in La Paz, and received a Bachelor of Arts in drawing from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1992, and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from San Carlos Academy of the Universidad Autónoma de México in 1996, where she received a scholarship from the Organization of American States.
In 1997 her work was chosen to represent Bolivia in the First Biennial of Visual Arts in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Ewel's solo exhibitions include "agua y sal" (Water & Salt) in 1998 and "Mujeres cautivas" (Women in Captivity) in 1996, both in La Paz; "La diosa blanca" (The White Goddess) in Mexico City in 1996; and "En busca de una realidad indescifrable" (in Search of an Undecipherable Reality) in 1995 in La Paz; and a show in 1992 in Cochabamba, Bolivia and the 1991 exhibition "Fotografía de invención" (Invention Photography) in La Paz. She has also participated in several group exhibitions in Bolivia, Mexico, and Brazil.
Artist's Statement
In this series of paintings, I adopt the cartographic language to travel deep into the subjective world, representing internal and imaginative voyages where fantastic beings and places materialize.
The coarse brush stroke – teeming with paint - reinforces the thought of earth and matter. The fantastic beings and cardinal points are represented by very fine lines that almost blend into the texture. A yearning for the South is present throughout the entire work.