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| Selected
Professional Achievements: |
| Recently,
Erika received the Silver and Merit Award in a New York City based national competition,
the 2nd place Award in the "Texas National" competition juried by nationally
recognized artist Mel Chin, the 2nd place Award in the Houston-based competition
"Texas Art" juried by Shelly Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and
Drawings in Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a First place Award in a New Arts
Perspective Competition. Erika was a selected finalist for the 'Hunting Art Prize'
in Houston in 2010, won 3rd place in the 'International Landscape Competition',
and was selected for the competition 'System Failure' in Alexandria, VA, curated
by Sarah Tanguy, an independent curator, arts writer & critic, and a curator
for the Art in Embassies Program in Washington, DC. In the past year, Erika's
work was featured in the Artist Portfolio Magazine. Recently, Erika became an
official winner for The Pride of Our Heritage: Mural Design Contest for Buffalo,
NY, and her winning design was published in the NewArts Magazine. Erika is also
a selected artist for the juried artist magazine, 'Studio Visit' (the Open Studios
Press) curated by Beth Venn, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Senior
Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum that will be published in April this
year. In February 2011, Erika was a selected co-winner of the William B. Kens'
Award in Visual Arts awarded by the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts
in Lubbock, TX. | | So
far, Erika has participated in group shows in Chicago, Dallas, Austin, Houston,
New York, Beverly Hills, Minneapolis, Sacramento, Alexandria, Nacogdoches, and
Lubbock. | | |
