up front w/ ERICA EYRES features a selection of new paintings and ceramic works from the Glasgow-based Canadian artist.

Over the past two decades, Erica Eyres has cultivated a consistent practice marked by her unique, awkward, and idiosyncratic figurative drawings, paintings, ceramic sculptures, and video performances. Personal histories subtly weave into her art, merging the familiar with the strange through her intricate and meticulously handcrafted creations. Her works render real life slightly artificial, if not completely lifeless.

In this new collection of ceramic and painting works, Eyres once again draws from obsolete, seemingly innocuous pop-cultural artifacts she encountered growing up in Winnipeg, MB (her home away from home) and is thrilled to be presenting them in the prairies.

Winnipeg-born Erica Eyres lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Through video, drawing, painting and sculpture, she uses found images and objects to explore the unreliability of autobiography and subjective truth. Her ceramic sculptures are based on objects such as books, inflatable toys, cigarettes, and foods, all of which appear used and cast aside. The objects are often chosen based on their significance to the artist; however, their uncanny presence invites viewers to project their own experiences and associations, imbuing the objects with multiple narratives.

Eyres’ solo shows include Do I Have to Love You? at OTP Copenhagen, Family Meal at Norberg Hall in Calgary, Another Dirty Room at Celine in Glasgow, and Fascinated Witness at koraï in Cyprus. Group shows include Secret Signals with Keith Boadwee at OTP Copenhagen, Lunch at London’s Kitchen, and Private Behaviour at White Columns in New York City