About
Erica Sofer Bodwell
Erica Bodwell (b. 1965) is a self-taught artist and painter working in oil and watercolor for close to ten years. Working in the example of artists such as Atel Adnan and Joan Snyder, Erica's work engages abstraction and especially the rhythm of lines and planes painted over deeply layered and scraped supports, using color as a primary subject to the interrogate the emotional, political, and phenomenal world. In her figurative and landscape work, using a limited palette of deeply saturated colors, she focuses on "the close view" of subjects, including the gazes of girls and women she's known and been throughout her life, and the natural world around her. Her work often places the viewer in its midst, whether at eye-level with squares and squiggles, wildflowers in a meadow or the subject's gaze. Erica's work asks, Are we present? Are we paying attention now?
Erica studied with Fran O'Neil and Catherine Lepp at the New York Studio School, as well as at the Kimball-Jenkins School of Art, the Currier Art Museum, and the New Hampshire Technical College Fine Arts program and is a member of the juried New Hampshire Art Association. She is also an accomplished poet with two books of poems, Up Liberty Street (Finishing Line 2017), and Crown of Wild (Two Sylvias 2020), which won the 2018 Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize. The mother of two grown sons, she works as a healthcare attorney and lives with her husband and two dogs in Concord and Tamworth, New Hampshire. Her first solo show was held at the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, New Hampshire in February 2024. Her work was included in a group show in March 2025 at the Glimpse Gallery in Concord, New Hampshire, and currently in a group show at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
