Erica L. Grimm

Erica L. Grimm works with themes of embodiment and liminality. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions and is in numerous private and public collections, including the Vatican Art Collection, Canada Council Art Bank and the Richmond Art Gallery. Erica’s current visual work uses encaustic, steel, medical imagery (PET scans, Angioplasty animated gifs., EKG readings), video and sound, exploring how the body is mapped and how the meaning of body travels over various materials and culturally specific signifiers of meaning. Her PhD dissertation The Aesthetics of Attentiveness: A Philosophy for Artists and Educators is a philosophical aesthetics written from the vantage point of the maker of art. It proposes that in the active practice of making work artists come to knowing by passing through a liminal passage of unknowing. Art-making can therefore be thought of as a kind of apophatic epistemology, a form of understanding born out of mindful attention. www.ericagrimm.com