Erika Cosby
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Erika Ranee Cosby (born April 8, 1965) is a modern American painter and taught Art at New York University (2012–2013).
She is the niece of philanthropist Camille Cosby and comedian Bill Cosby.
Early life and education
Erika Ranee Cosby was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 8, 1965, the first of five children born to Camille Olivia (née Hanks) and William Henry Cosby, Jr. All five siblings' names began with E for "excellence." Erika has two living siblings: sisters Erinn (born 1966) and Evin (born 1976). Ennis Cosby, her brother (born in 1969), was killed in 1997. Ensa Cosby, a younger sister who was born in 1973, died of kidney disease in 2018.
Cosby graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987 after high school. She studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City after Wesleyan, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1989. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1991.
Cosby completed her MFA at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine for a nine-week summer residency course.
Artistic career
Cosby's artwork, according to David Driskell, "focuses on image recognition, particularly the media's debasing stereotypes that alter people's realistic characteristics by negative representation." Her work investigates the origins and the effect of these distorted images of African American culture through the use of satire, metaphor, and allegory. She focuses on abstract works.
Cosby was the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting. She was an artist in residence at the Abrons Arts Center from 2009 to 2010, and was granted a studio grant from The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in 2011.
"It's a Small, Small World" featured in Jayson Musson and Marilyn Minter's group exhibition at the New York Family Business in 2012.
Cosby served as an adjunct art professor at New York University in 2012 and 2013, alongside Huma Bhabha, Dike Blair, Wayne Koestenbaum, and others.
Hanging Out To Dry, one of her works on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art's 50th anniversary of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in 2014. The painting was a large, vivid, impressionist work. "The positioning of the dolls hanging from a clothingline on an upside-down course, which is suspended in perpetuity," Cosby described the painting. The expressionistic paint job and the predominant use of red are a visceral interpretation of the ongoing and enduring use of black imagery in our culture. Latanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and James Staton attended the gala, among others.
Cosby, the curator of a pop-up group art show in artist Jennifer Coates' Brooklyn studio called "Eye Contact" in July 2015. It featured art by Cosby as well as works by Ellen Gallagher, Nina Chanel Abney, Nina Kruglyanskaya, Lauren Gidwitz, Scott Grodesky, and Ryan Schneider. "I started worrying about eye imagery after seeing marchers carry artist JR's banner of Eric Garner's cropped eyes," Cosby said.
Works by Cosby have been included in shows such as SALTWORKS Contemporary Art, the Arlington Arts Center, Slate Gallery, Artspace in New Haven, the Allegra Laviola Gallery, and The Last Brucennial.
In Chicago, Illinois, Cosby is a benefactor of A Long Walk Home, an art-based sexual harassment education program.