 Among other formats Erasmus is known for his Resistance Art protesting the apartheid regime in South Africa.Beginning as graffiti protest art his State of Emergency series depicts images of entrapment.Writing in a review of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Arts 2002 exhibition "Encounters With the Contemporary," critic Mark D'Amato called Erasmus' painting The Muse 3 (1995) "a highlight."