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. Using a limited palette of deeply saturated colors, her work 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. Erica's work also engages abstraction and especially the rhythm of lines and planes painted over layered and scraped supports. Her work often places the viewer in its midst, whether at eye-level with wildflowers in a meadow or face-to-face with 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. She has an upcoming group show in March 2025 at the Glimpse Gallery in Concord, New Hampshire.
