Erica Lord
flatscreen DVD: Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Opening Friday March 9, 2007 from 6pm-10pm
March 9 - March 31, 2007

Erica Lord grew up between Alaska and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. An inter-disciplinary artist, Erica works with themes of race, ethnicity, and gender roles, as well as concepts regarding memory and the idea of home. Her exploration of these universal aspects are in relation to her constantly changing identity, a shifting self whose qualities seem to surface and diminish, depending on her context or present environment. Erica currently serves on the Indigenous Arts Action Alliance (IA3), a non-profit organization that has supported bringing Native artists to the Venice Biennale for the past 8 years, has had her creative writing published in Red Ink magazine and has exhibited at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture, the Carl Gorman Museum (CA), and the Two Rivers Gallery in Minneapolis. She received her BA from Carleton College (Northfield, MN) in liberal arts/studio arts in 2001 and her MFA in the sculpture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

flatscreen DVD: Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud was born in Texas in 1978 and studied Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She acts as artist, performer, collaborator, and writer on a variety of interactive works dealing with everyday and metaphysical rituals. She currently lives and works in New York and Miami, and just started labotanica.wordpress.com. See the video online HERE

see a review of this video in ArtLies Magazine from Texas


DOWNLOAD AN INTERVIEW WITH ERICA LORD HERE: http://polvo.org/march07/ericalord.mp3
or stream audio the interview at the internet archive.