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Erika Stanley - Biography
Studies:
1997
Fine art study, specialty in painting, Faculty Of Fine Arts,
University Of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
Video direction and production, Costa Rican Film Centre, San
José, Costa Rica.
1995
Video direction and production, Technologic Institute Of Costa
Rica, Cartago, Costa Rica.
Individual expositions:
2006
“Hanging Music”, Valanti Gallery, San José,
Costa Rica
2005
“Sub Worlds”, Topacio Gallery, Puerto Rico
2004
“Sub Worlds”, Arteconsul, Panama
2002
"Eros And The Dreams", Alternative Space, Museo
de Arte Costarricense, San José
2001
“Sub Worlds In Cages”, Valanti Gallery, San José,
Costa Rica
1996
“Sub Worlds”, Gallery Kandinsky, San José,
Costa Rica
Collective expositions:
2006
“32 Female Artists from 32 Participating Countries In
The World Cup Football (Soccer) 2006”, Art Gallery Festl
& Maas, Reutlingen, Germany
2002
"Recent Paintings", Gallery Kandinsky, San José,
Costa Rica
2001
"Recent Paintings", Gallery Real, San José,
Costa Rica
"Recent Paintings", Grupo Sama, San José,
Costa Rica
2000
"Women Of The 2000", Latin American Art Museum,
Miami, EE.UU
"Latin American Synthesis", Latin American Art Museum,
Miami, EE.UU
1999
Gallery Pléyades, Managua, Nicaragua
1998
“Drawing Contest Of The Caja Costarricense del Seguro
Social", National Gallery, Costa Rican centre of Science
and Culture, San José.
1997
“Female Artist Collective”, Gallery Enrique Echandi,
San José, Costa Rica
"De Woman Today And Always", Gallery Arte Nativo,
San José, Costa Rica-
"Graduation Exposition", Faculty Of Fine Arts, University
Of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
1996
Female Artists Collective, Technologic Institute Of Costa
Rica, Cartago, Costa Rica.
1995
Student painting contest "University View", Faculty
Of Fine Arts, University Of Costa Rica, San José, Costa
Rica
French Alliance, San José, Costa Rica
Hotel Herradura, San José, Costa Rica
New values contest “Fausto Pacheco”, Cultural
Centre Costarricense Norteamericano, San José, Costa
Rica
Awards:
1997
Graduation with honor of last year of fine art studies, specialty
in painting, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa
Rica.
1996
First price in National Contest Of Cinema and Video, category
Fiction Amateur, San José, Costa Rica.
1995
First price student painting contest "University View",
Faculty Of Fine Arts, University Of Costa Rica, San José,
Costa Rica
Price Of Honor in New values contest “Fausto Pacheco”,
Cultural Centre Costarricense Norteamericano, San José,
Costa Rica
Erika Stanley:
“Creating art is what my life is all
about; painting and making sculptures are my reasons to be”.
Erika Stanley, born on the 9th of October 1973, lets her creativity
rule since her early youth. As a child, she’s not interested
in easy toys. She prefers to draw, play with Lego and Meccano
and experiment with music instruments. Her parents stimulate
her in that, something for which the artist will always be
grateful. At the age of 3 she starts to be interested in art,
after examining a book from Belgian painter Magritte. His
surrealistic works have such a deep impact on Erika, that
she naturally chooses a similarly direction of art.
After her high school period, which is highlighted
by excellent results in creative classes, Erika starts to
paint at the age of 17. She becomes a student at the Faculty
of Fine Arts at the University of Costa Rica. At first she
combines traditional art classes with film production, but
along the way Erika starts to prefer working alone over creating
within a team. It doesn’t take long before the young
artist is successful with mysteriously looking, surrealistic
works, sold through renowned galleries In Costa Rica. Being
just 22 years old, she is acknowledged by critics as a great
talent in painting, sculpturing and creating three dimensional
art objects. Those art expressions come by turns in Erika’s
work schedule. “When I’ m painting, I think about
designing sculptures and vice versa. It’s a process
that I can’t stop and because of that I never have a
lack of inspiration.”
The interest in Erika’s work is not
limited to the Costa Rican market. Expositions in Nicaragua,
Panama, Puerto Rico, the United States and Germany help her
to become internationally well-known. Recently she’s
mainly active in Latin America, while her second home base
in The Netherlands gives Erika the opportunity to further
explore European art territories. She is resolved to grow
and to keep developing her art. “The reason that I like
to renew my work and expose it all over the world is that
I want to spend the rest of my life making art, wherever possible
and in each thinkable form.”
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