Ekasala has explained how her materials and process inform the play between abstraction and representation in her artwork. "My paintings are never thought up in advance. I worked primarily with oils on linen until several years ago when I began to work with acrylic on paper. This has brought much more to my practice. I feel less restraint, freer to experiment, always looking for new approaches to bring an image out. For years I worked, for the most part, abstract until this introduction of acrylic and paper. Suddenly and surprisingly figures or figurative images began to appear!" Ekasala was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and studied at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1983, she set up her first studio in Miami Beach and became a member of the Artifacts Art Group, which staged weekly events at Miami's Fire & Ice nightclub. In 1987, Ekasala moved to Paris, where she became part of a diverse artistic community that organized the first artist squat to become legal in Paris. In 2001, Ekasala moved to Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. Today, she resides with her family in East Burke, Vermont.

Terry was the recipient of the 2023 Vermont Art Prize Ekasala's work has been exhibited at numerous institutions around the world, including Burlington City Arts VT, the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vermont; Metalstone Gallery in New York City; PIERMARQ* in Sydney, Australia and Schonfeld Gallery, Brussels.

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