Photo credit: Stewart Clements
ABOUT ERICA LICEA-KANE
Erica has had a long career as a studio artist and college art instructor, including 17 years as the Gallery Director at Wheelock College. She received her BFA at the Parsons School of Design, and her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art, earning both degrees in the area of fine art textiles. Erica has exhibited her work extensively throughout the United States and abroad.
Select exhibitions of Erica’s work include: Krikorian Gallery at the Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester MA, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, Newport Art Museum, Newport RI, Site:Brooklyn, NY, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Andrews Art Museum, Andrews, NC, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro MA, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.
Erica has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships including the 2018 Artist Fellowship in Painting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Blanche E. Colman Award, the A.R.T Grant from the Berkshire Community Foundation, and a regional fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts of the National Endowment For the Arts.
Her work has been included in the permanent collection of the Danforth Museum, and reviewed in several publications. Recent coverage include: The Portland Phoenix, the “Take” section of the Boston Globe, The Portland Press Herald and Take Magazine as well as past reviews in the Boston Globe Magazine, The Boston Herald, Surface Design Journal and in several editions of Lark Publications, FiberArts Design Book, #’s 3, 4, and 6.
Erica is represented by SJ Art Consulting in Haverhill, MA.