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ERICA DEEMAN

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Erica Deeman Duppie, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
Erica Deeman Duppie, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
Erica Deeman Duppie, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
Erica Deeman Duppie, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
Erica Deeman Duppie, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm

Erica Deeman
Duppie, 2023
Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter
Framed Dimensions:
34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches
88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
30 x 24 inches
76.2 x 61 cm

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Erica Deeman Territories Of The Soul, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
Erica Deeman Territories Of The Soul, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
Erica Deeman Territories Of The Soul, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
Erica Deeman Territories Of The Soul, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
Erica Deeman Territories Of The Soul, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm

Erica Deeman
Territories Of The Soul, 2023
Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter
Framed Dimensions:
34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches
88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
30 x 24 inches
76.2 x 61 cm

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Erica Deeman, Untitled 06, 2013
Erica Deeman, Untitled 06, 2013
Erica Deeman, Untitled 06, 2013
Erica Deeman, Untitled 06, 2013
Erica Deeman, Untitled 06, 2013

Erica Deeman
Untitled 06, 2013
Digital Chromogenic print
Framed Dimensions:
46 5/8 x 46 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches
118.4 x 118.4 x 3.5 cm
Edition of 5

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Erica Deeman, Untitled 27, 2014
Erica Deeman, Untitled 27, 2014
Erica Deeman, Untitled 27, 2014
Erica Deeman, Untitled 27, 2014
Erica Deeman, Untitled 27, 2014

Erica Deeman
Untitled 27, 2014
Archival Inkjet Print
Framed Dimensions:
46 5/8 x 46 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches
118.4 x 118.4 x 3.5 cm
Edition of 5

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Video of Erica Deeman in conversation with Antwaun Sargent, artist and New York-based art critic, writer, and curator

Erica Deeman, Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA
Erica Deeman, Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA
Erica Deeman, Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA
Erica Deeman, Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA
Erica Deeman, Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA
Erica Deeman, Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA
Erica Deeman, Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA

Erica Deeman
Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA

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Erica Deeman, George, 2016
Erica Deeman, George, 2016
Erica Deeman, George, 2016
Erica Deeman, George, 2016
Erica Deeman, George, 2016

Erica Deeman
George, 2016
Archival pigment print
Framed Dimensions:
29 x 29 x 2 inches
73.7 x 73.7 x 5.1 cm
Edition of 5

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Erica Deeman, Llane, 2016
Erica Deeman, Llane, 2016
Erica Deeman, Llane, 2016
Erica Deeman, Llane, 2016
Erica Deeman, Llane, 2016

Erica Deeman
Llane, 2016
Archival pigment print
Framed Dimensions:
29 x 29 x 2 inches
73.7 x 73.7 x 5.1 cm
Edition of 5

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Erica Deeman, Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020

Erica Deeman
Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020
Cassius Obsidian clay, unique in a series
Framed Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches
26.7 x 22.2 x 7 cm
Edition of 3

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Erica Deeman, Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020
Erica Deeman, Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020

Erica Deeman
Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020
Cassius Obsidian clay, unique in a series
Framed Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches
26.7 x 22.2 x 7 cm
Edition of 3

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Erica Deeman Installation view of The Artist Speaks: Erica Deeman, 2018 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Erica Deeman Installation view of The Artist Speaks: Erica Deeman, 2018 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Erica Deeman Installation view of The Artist Speaks: Erica Deeman, 2018 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Erica Deeman Installation view of The Artist Speaks: Erica Deeman, 2018 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Erica Deeman
Installation view of The Artist Speaks: Erica Deeman, 2018
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

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Erica Deeman: Brown
Video, March 2017

Erica Deeman Duppie, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm

Erica Deeman
Duppie, 2023
Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter
Framed Dimensions:
34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches
88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
30 x 24 inches
76.2 x 61 cm

Erica Deeman Territories Of The Soul, 2023 Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter Framed Dimensions: 34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches 88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm

Erica Deeman
Territories Of The Soul, 2023
Unique archival pigment print with hand-cut neutral density filter
Framed Dimensions:
34 3/4 x 28 3/4 x 3 inches
88.3 x 73 x 7.6 cm
Artwork Dimensions:
30 x 24 inches
76.2 x 61 cm

Erica Deeman, Untitled 06, 2013

Erica Deeman
Untitled 06, 2013
Digital Chromogenic print
Framed Dimensions:
46 5/8 x 46 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches
118.4 x 118.4 x 3.5 cm
Edition of 5

Erica Deeman, Untitled 27, 2014

Erica Deeman
Untitled 27, 2014
Archival Inkjet Print
Framed Dimensions:
46 5/8 x 46 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches
118.4 x 118.4 x 3.5 cm
Edition of 5

Video of Erica Deeman in conversation with Antwaun Sargent, artist and New York-based art critic, writer, and curator

Video of Erica Deeman in conversation with Antwaun Sargent, artist and New York-based art critic, writer, and curator

Erica Deeman, Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA

Erica Deeman
Installation view of Erica Deeman: Silhouettes, 2017
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive​, ​Berkeley, CA

Erica Deeman, George, 2016

Erica Deeman
George, 2016
Archival pigment print
Framed Dimensions:
29 x 29 x 2 inches
73.7 x 73.7 x 5.1 cm
Edition of 5

Erica Deeman, Llane, 2016

Erica Deeman
Llane, 2016
Archival pigment print
Framed Dimensions:
29 x 29 x 2 inches
73.7 x 73.7 x 5.1 cm
Edition of 5

Erica Deeman, Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020

Erica Deeman
Untitled ​10 (Self Portrait), 2020
Cassius Obsidian clay, unique in a series
Framed Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches
26.7 x 22.2 x 7 cm
Edition of 3

Erica Deeman, Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020

Erica Deeman
Untitled ​14​ (Self Portrait), 2020
Cassius Obsidian clay, unique in a series
Framed Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches
26.7 x 22.2 x 7 cm
Edition of 3

Erica Deeman Installation view of The Artist Speaks: Erica Deeman, 2018 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Erica Deeman
Installation view of The Artist Speaks: Erica Deeman, 2018
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Erica Deeman: Brown Video, March 2017

Erica Deeman: Brown
Video, March 2017

Erica Deeman - Artists - Anthony Meier

Erica Deeman was born in 1977 in Nottingham, UK and lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Deeman received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Public Relations, degree in 2000 from Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, degree in 2014 from Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA.

Deeman is a visual artist whose work explores the intersections of race, gender, and the hybridity of Black identity. Deeman is concerned with the multiple ways selfhood manifests through queer, transnational and hybrid modes; and how we find a sense of belonging and ‘home’ through migratory patterns, memory, personal biography, and ancestral legacy. Her multidisciplinary practice embodies the complexity and transformational nature of Blackness.

Deeman's Silhouette series was made with the participation of women of the African diaspora, most of whom were unknown to the artist. Her portraits employ the silhouette in conscious reference to the 18th-century pseudoscience of physiognomy - the silhouette was used to demonstrate how an individual's specific character traits were reflected in their facial forms. Her goal is to create a complicated expression of identity analogous to her own journey of self-discovery as a woman of dual English and Jamaican background. 

Deeman's Brown series is comprised of a series of 26 x 26-inch archival pigment photographs of men from the African diaspora. Deeman placed her models in front of a backdrop matching her own skin color as a way to personally connect to the individual and collective identity of men from the African diaspora. Together with traditions of classical portraiture, the mugshot, and physiognomy, Deeman engages the viewer to reexamine the basis of their inherent reading of a face, and ultimately, the being. 

In her Familiar Stranger series, Deeman turns the camera on herself for the first time, forging a pathway between photography and sculpture, sharing 15 intimate self-portraits rendered in Cassius Obsidian clay. In this new series, Deeman continues her reflections on diasporic and transnational movements, Black permanence and the nuance of cultural identity.

The artist's most recent series, Emerging States, consist of self-portraits that conjure a distinct sense of movement and the innate fluidity of identity. Neutral Density filters traditionally used in photographic studio lighting, varying in texture and opacity, float over each portrait, obfuscating the image below. The ethereal, flowing effects, and points of  emergence speak to the artist’s queer, transnational, and Black diasporic becoming a British-Jamaican and the liminal and transitory states of Black selfhood. A hand-cut window in the film of each is a place of emergence, a point of observance. Intentional shapes serve as symbolic references to the artist about queerness, boundaries and collective reclamation.

Erica Deeman - Artists - Anthony Meier

Erica Deeman is the recipient of the 2019 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, Sausalito, CA; a 2016 TOSA Award Finalist; the ProArts 2 x 2 Solos 2015: Emerging Artists; and the 2015 Working Artists Grant.  

Deeman has had solo exhibitions at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Archive, Berkeley, CA; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, and Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY; Domestic and international group exhibitions include Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; The Hive, Worcester, Worcestershire, UK; Municipal Gallery, Library and Cultural Centre, Dublin, Ireland; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Old Truman Brewery, London, UK; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA; and SF Cameraworks, San Francisco, CA and University of Derby, Derbyshire, UK.

Permanent collections include Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and San Francisco Civic Art Collection, San Francisco, CA.

 

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