From Time to Time, 2016

artist statement

Ericka Bruno's paintings live at the meeting place of motion and stillness. 

At once ordered and aware of life’s chaos, each is a creation that embraces the transformative nature of light and the ability of color to call us out of conscious thought before releasing us.

Each work begins with lines – intersecting – becoming shapes. A mosaic surface unfolds on the canvas that proposes both juxtaposition and balance. Ericka embraces her lived experiences and translates them into the these adjacent, related tiles. Water’s surface, sky’s reflection, family’s voices, music, running, stop. The language of her paintings comprised of pigment and movement that are not contained, but explore the pieces before the whole, unity, immersion undefined.