Last Update June 19, 2008
Two Girls: About My Sisters 1996-2006
Book published on blurb.com
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/293305
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Last Update March 11, 2008
Ellie Brown Awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for 2008Last Update February 10, 2008
Solo Exhibition: Images from Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
Galeria Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo (257-5524), Av. 3-7, Ca. 11. Sala Julian Marchena, west side of National Library
Exhibition dates: February 1-29th, 2008
The work in this exhibition was produced during an artist residency in May 2007 at the David and Julia White Artist's Colony in Cuidad Colon, Costa Rica. It features images of women and girls from the village.
PACIFIC FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK ART INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
Dates: March 3- April 26, 2008
Location: Victoria Arts Connection, Victoria, BC
Over 100 works from more than 50 artists from across Canada and parts of the US.
This exhibition features both 2D and 3D works from book arts, cover designs (published and conceptual), hand made books, installation and conceptual works, art inspired by literature, sculpture and more.
http://www.victoriaartsconnection.com/html/pfb08art.html
PRINT CENTER INTERNATIONAL PRINT COMPETITION
May 31 - August 2, 2008
82nd Annual International Competition: Photography.
http://www.printcenter.org
36 artists have been selected out of 544 entrants:
Paul Adams
Alberto Aguilar
Sarah Bones
Devorah Bowen
Ellie Brown
Allen Bryan
Marshall Clarke
Phyllis Crowley
Carol Dragon
Daniel Farnum
Jimmy Fike
Timothy Fitzgerald
Irene Imfeld
Sean Justice
Stephanie Kirk
Susan Lakin
Michael Matsil
Mike Mergen
Thomas Porett
Robert L. Pratto
Jack Ramsdale
Paul Rider
Nadine Rovner
Libby Rowe
Constance Schroder
Robert Shults
Harris J. Sklar
Chris Smiar
Amy Stein
Stephen Strom
Jennifer Tauber
Daniel Traub
David Underwood
Matthew D. White
Petronella Ytsma
Bahar Yurukoglu
Juror: Joel M. Smith, Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum. Smith has written several books including Edward Steichen: The Early Years, Yale University Press, and has written a wide range of articles, reviews and exhibition publications including Steiglitz et New York (2004) and Roll Over: The Snapshot's Museum Afterlife (2001). He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2001, and has held the Jackson Brothers Research Fellowship, Beinecke Library, Yale University, The Chester Dale Fellowship and the Jane & Morgan Whitney Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
SPE 2008 National Conference, Denver, CO
Agents of Change: Art and Advocacy
March 13-16, 2008
The conference will take place at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Denver. Governor's Square 16:
Friday- Mary Ann Lynch, "One by One: Photographers Seeking Social Change"
If you are planning on attending SPE, Mary Ann Lynch will be discussing my work in her panel about Art and Social Change.
http://www.spenational.org
ALTERED BOOKS: UNBINDING THE BOOK
Minneapolis Central Library curated by Dr. Betty Bright
Altered Books: Unbinding the Book
January 18-March 29, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday February 7, 6:30-8:30pm
http://www.mplib.org/arts/asp
LAUNCH OF BOOK MAIDEN USA BY KATHLEEN SWEENEY
http://www.video-text.com/maidenbook.html
Kathleen Sweeny's book explores icons of girls in American popular culture and features images and text of my work.
ISBN-13: 9781433102080
LOOK FOR MY WORK ON ARTNET.COM IN 2008 WITH THE RHONDA SCHALLER STUIO IN CHELSEA, NYC
CONTINUED WORK IN PROGRESS FROM THE KENSINGTON TRASH PROJECT
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elliebrown
WORK ALSO ON VIEW AND FOR SALE ON THE SAATCHI GALLERY WEBSITE:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Ellie+Brown/4072.html
ARRIVING IN S. KOREA FEBRUARY 22, 2008
Ellie Brown: Visiting Professor at the University of Ulsan, S.Korea
Here is how you can contact me after 2/21/08 when I arrive in Ulsan, S. Korea.
To purchase, get or return artwork for or from an exhibition:
Gross McCleaf Gallery
Attn: Mark Brosseau
127 South 16th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-665-8138
To reach me in Korea (phone number forthcoming):
Professor Ellie Brown
Department of Digital Information
College of Design
P.O. Box 18
University of Ulsan
Ulsan, 680-749 South Korea
http://www.ulsan.ac.kr/English/academics/cDesign.aspx
Last Update November 1, 2007
Disposable Culture by Kate Kilpatrick
Article in the Philadelphia Weekly about new work: Urban Detritus
http://philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=15708
Last Update September 22, 2007
International Museum of Women
Imaging Ourselves: The Age of Beauty
Article about Ellie Brown's photographs of girls and her sisters
http://imaginingourselves.imow.org/pb/Story.aspx?id=1400&lang=1&g=0
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS
Altered Esthetics Gallery
Show run: October 4-27, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, October 5, 2007: The Artists' reception for
friends and family with food and refreshments will be from 6pm-7pm and the
public reception will be from 7pm - 9pm.
Altered Esthetics Gallery Hours
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1pm - 7pm
Saturdays from 1pm - 5pm.
1224 quincy st ne · minneapolis MN 55413 ·
(612) 378-8888
contact@alteredesthetics.com
POST OPEN STUDIO TOURS WITH PHILAGRAFIKA
During the Philadelphia Open Studio Tour (POST), West of Broad Street
728 S. Broad Street, Phila.
October 27-28, 2007
Please direct all inquiries to openportfolio@philagrafika.org or call 215-557-8433
Philagrafika, in partnership with The Print Center,Inliquid, and the Philadelphia Center for the Book will host the Philagrafika Open Portfolio to support individual artist printmakers and photographers in the Philadelphia region whose studios cannot accommodate public visitation. This event will provide a venue for more than 40 individual artists during the weekend of October 27-28, 2007 as part of the citywide Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, to showcase their fine art prints and photographs to the public in an art fair setting. Each participating artist will be given a table to display his or her work for the public from noon to 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday. And, the setting for the event is the headquarters of Solutions for Progress that has, by far, the largest installation of fine art prints in a corporate setting - certainly in this region!
CONCEPTUALLY BOUND 3
Exhibition Dates:
University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico
November 13 - December 16, 2007 (closed Thanksgiving week, Nov. 19 - 24)
Reception: Wednesday, November 14, curator talk 5:30, reception 6 - 7:30
Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View, California
April 1 - May 26, 2008
Reception: Friday, April 11, 2008, early evening
http://conceptuallybound.org/
DANGEROUS WOMEN TWO
70 contemporary artists + 70 historical counterparts = combustible art!!!
September 4 - October 6, 2007
Curated by Tricia Fagan
The Gallery, 2nd Floor Communications Building, Mercer County Community College
1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, NJ 08550
Reception: Saturday, September 8, 2 - 5 pm
Closing Event: Wednesday, October 3, 7 - 9 pm (Kelsey Theater)
Gallery Talks: Wednesday, September 19, noon & Wednesday, September 26, 7 pm
Gallery hours: Tuesday & Wednesday 9 am - 3 pm AND 6 - 8 pm
Thursday 10 am - 3 pm, 7 - 9 pm
Friday 10 am - 2 pm
Saturday 10 am - 2 pm
Sunday 11 am - 1 pm
For directions, visit www.mccc.edu
Last Update July 15, 2007
Yo Gallery Solo Exhibition
for questions contact: sherry@yodarkroom.com
http://www.yodarkroom.com
The photographs exhibited are excerpts from the body of work, About My Sisters 1996-2006. Ellie has been photographing her half-sisters' passage through childhood, into and out of adolescence for ten years. The work chronicles the quest for identity, changes in voice and confidence through adolescence, the strong influence of media, peer groups and an eating disorder. http://www.elliebrown.com
Location:
YO Gallery
113 N 23rd St.
(btw Arch & Cherry)
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Hours of Operation
Wednesday - Friday: 5p - 11p
Saturday: 1p - 11p
Sunday: 10a - 9p
Last Update April 8, 2007
Crossroads, Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, NY
Show dates are : 5/31/07 - 6/23/07
Opening reception: Thursday evening June 7th, from 6 - 8 pm
Rhonda Schaller Studio
547 West 27, Suite 529
New York, NY 10001
T: 212-967-1338
F: 212-967-1121
www.RhondaSchallerChelsea.com
info@RhondaSchallerChelsea.com
http://www.rhondaschallerchelsea.com/upcoming_exhibitions.htm
Interactions, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
http://www.c4fap.org/index.asp
Spring Juried Competition, Divishow Gallery, Cuautitlan Izcali, Mexico
Detrius Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, S. Orange ,NJ
An exhibition of art from recycled or found art materials. Focusing on artwork made with found objects or discarded materials, Detritus is a mixed-media exhibit which will be on view at the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University from April 16 through May 25, 2007. Environmental concerns, recycling, and broader social issues are just some of the big picture themes explored by the artists represented in the exhibit. Through a collaborative effort with the Seton Hall University Environmental Studies department and local environmental groups, the exhibit will correspond with the celebration of Earth Day on April 22 and will engage the general public with a variety of community events, artist led talks and guided visits.
Monday, April 16 - Friday, May 25, 2007
http://library.shu.edu/gallery/current.htm#Detritus
SPRING TOP 30 JURIED EXHIBITION
that will be held from March 15th to April 16th 2007 at:
DS&G DIVISHOW STUDIO & GALLERY
Av. Camino a Tepotzotlan Mz. 4 LT. 1 #8-B
CUAUTITLAN IZCALLI ESTADO DE MEXICO
C.P. 54715 MEXICO
http://www.divishowstudio.com/dsgtop/
Last Update November 27, 2006
Buy a limited edition photo to fundraise for thepublication of About My Sisters 1996-2006
http://www.inliquid.com/features/elliebrown/
Sub Terr ane exhibit curated by Sean Stoopes at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists
November 30- December 21, 2006
Opening Reception: Thursday November 30, 5:30-7:30
237 S. 18th Street, Suite 3A, Philadelphia, PA 19103
http://www.cfeva.org
Last Update: October 16, 2006
Growing Up Girl
Photographs by Rita Bernstein, Ellie Brown & Jeff Hurwitz
December 11, 2006 - February 4, 2007
Opening reception: Thursday, December 14, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Three photographers focus on daughters, sisters and others to explore the passage of girls into young womanhood with intimacy and empathy.
http://www.gershmany.org/Open-Lens-Gallery.asp
Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Region Conference 11/10-11/11
Ellie will be lecturing about her Lover's Book series and showing some samples from the project at the Meyerson Gallery on Penn's Campus. The conference is entitled Vernacular Spectacular and features John Waters as the keynote speaker.
Last Update: August 11, 2006
Cut and Paste
Lovers Books and prints will be displayed in the Cut and Paste show at the Falling Cow Gallery from Sept. 2nd -30th. The opening reception will be September 8th from 6-8pm.
732 South 4th St. Philadelphia PA
Axis Annual Juried Exhibition
A national exhibition of works on paper curated by Scott Shields. August 5th-27th 2006.
The Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CAl
Texas Photographic Society National Competition
A record 381 artists entered 2,596 images for the travelling competition and exhibition.
Juror Harris Fogel has accepted 72 artists into TPS 15: The National Competition. Accepted entries came from 26 states, Argentina, England, France, Japan and Mexico.
Second Skin Exhibition at the University of Michigan, Flint
By Carol Azizian
University of Michigan-Flint art students Marti Miller and Jessica Kroeger have created a show titled "Second Skin" to push the concept of skin beyond the world of fashion.
It opens from 6-8 p.m. today and continues through August at the Harding Mott University Center Gallery in the University Center on the UM-Flint campus.
"Flint is really becoming an art community," Miller said in an e-mail. "We thought a national show would add to the art environment here.
"The curatorial statement we envisioned with 'Second Skin' asked the artist to conceptually push the title's boundary beyond the marketplace garment," Miller said. "How the artist chose to interpret that boundary in a 2-D or 3-D format was open." (Videos also are displayed.)
The show features the work of 11 artists from five states with various levels of art education. Included are students, art and non-art majors, practicing artists and professors.
The exhibit took months to plan and involved coordination with art professors and art students at UM and other universities, Miller said.
Details: (810) 762-3431. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
Last Update: July 19, 2006
International Gallery Of Contemporary Art Exhibit
Ellie is having a solo exhibition at The International Gallery of
Contemporary Art in Anchorage Alaska in September, 2006
International Gallery of Contemporary Art
Boobies Show
July 22nd through August 26th
Throughout the ages, one thing in the history of art has remained constant - artists love naked women!
From the primitive carvings of ancient races, to the fleshy voluptuous figures of Rubens, Renoir and Modigliani;
from the shocking and provocative experiments of Picasso, Matisse and DeKooning to the sensuous photographic
meditations of Weston, it soon becomes obvious - the female body is one of the most beloved and inspiring of all
subject matter.
The nude model remains a staple of art schools despite the proliferation of the feminist movement, postmodern sensibilities and ever changing tastes. Naked ladies have been studied, analyzed, stylized, objectified, sanctified, appreciated, admired, drawn, painted, sculpted, etched, photographed and filmed like nothing else.
Falling Cow Gallery focuses in on perhaps the favorite feature of the female body - the Boobie - in all of its glorious and miraculous shapes, sizes and varieties. Boobies will feature work from a diverse collection of artists using a wide range of media, all putting forth their own personal interpretation of the most celebrated component of the female form.
Exhibiting artists include Robert Asman, Julia Blaukopf, Alana Bograd, Ellie Brown, Bruce Campbell, Keith Cheek,
Sarah Eberle, Nathan Patrick Flanagan, Sara Gates, Bruce Glider, Eric McDade, Bill McRight, Heidi Neff, Adam Neuman,
Kate Norton, John Overmyer, Bill Schafer, Caroline Sheilds, Gerard Silva, John Strothfang, Jed Williams
with more to come.
Falling Cow Gallery
The Print Center's 80th Annual International Competition:
Photography will be on view June 8 ñ August 5, 2006
The Print Center
3:00 pm Gallery Talk by Juror, Stephen Pinson, Curator, Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Exhibiting Artists:
19th & Vine sts., 215-686-5322. BOUND/UNBOUNDBound/Unbound
The Dialog between Printmaking and the Art of the Book The exhibition explores the inextricable relationship between prints, artists' books and fine press publications. Curated by Robert Wuilfe. Through June 16th, 2006.
Free Library of Philadelphia Philly Gallery Guide 2 - d - 2" art exhibit at Energy Gallery by 49 International Artists:
12th Annual Griffin Museum Juried Show
Winning photographs from the 12th Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition will be on display in the Museumís Main and Emerging Artist Galleries May 11 ñ August 13. Four hundred and fifty photographers from around the country submitted approximately 2500 images that ranged from dramatic and timeless black and white to striking color and digital photography. Bonnie Benrubi, owner of the Bonnie Benrubi Gallery in New York, judged the entries and selected the more than 60 images that make up the show. Two photographers were also selected to be featured in a joint show in the Emerging Artist Gallery.
Griffin Museum Ellie Brown will be an artist in residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute on a Full Fellowship in May 2006
Santa Fe Art Institute Click Art, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Woman Made
Congratulation to the following artists whose work was selected for the Click Art group exhibition on display from January 20 to February 23, 2006. Theresa Bertocci - Chicago, IL; Ellie Brown - Philadelphia, PA; Mare Dianora - Sag Harbor, NY; Christine DiThomas - Chicago, IL; Mary Rachel Fanning - Chicago, IL; Mary Farmilant - Chicago, IL; Courtney Kotsionis - Winston Salem, NC; Judy A. Langston - Park Ridge, IL; Kate Love - Brooklyn NY; Amy MacWilliamson - San Francisco, CA; Monika Merva - Brooklyn, NY; Lydia Moyer - Montevallo, AL; Colleen Plumb - Chicago, IL; Christina Richards - Brooklyn, NY; Kris Sanford - Tempe, AZ; Karen St. John-Vincent - Lakewood, OH; Susan Tennenbaum - Glencoe, IL; Martha Thomas - Houston, TX Jurorís Statement: Jurying an exhibition is always invigorating. I usually curate exhibitions from a collection of photographs I know quite well which is exciting and challenging , but choosing pieces for a juried exhibition such as this allows me to work more instinctually. The time to look and consider is much shorter. It feels spontaneous and experiential. In the end, the pieces I chose were the ones that were fresh, engaging, and well executed. Each artist Iíve included has a unique perspective that when grouped together gives a sense of the myriad visual ideas at work within contemporary photographic practice. - Click Art - Whitney Bradshaw. The Print Center Gallery Store is proud to announce an exhibition of 7 photographers:
Ellie Brown, Sara Gates, Jane Grossenbacher, Phil Marquez, Alan Shulik, David Simchock, Hiroshi Watanabe
Tower Gallery, Northern Liberties, 969 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphia
Ellie Brown, Lisa Marie Waters and Lisa Hale
Several exhibitions will be on view at the Morris Graves Museum this summer. Ellie Brownís Elastic Identity will feature a series of photographs of young girls on the brink of adolescence. Particularly interested in the coming of age experience, Brown attempts to document the lives of specific girls as they go through these life changes. Looking for the visible signs of identity crises, media influences and grooming rituals, Brownís photographs provide a mirror that might help the girls through this difficult stage of life. In Corsage Crisis, an older woman puts a corsage on a young womanís wrist. They are outside, in front of a gray, wood-slatted house. The younger womanís face is heavily made up; her wide-open brown eyes express intense emotion. She appears either confused or horrified or disturbed and the ambiguity of her state makes the point of the whole exhibition. Lisa Marie Waters will be showing traditional dry pastel paintings made over the last twenty years. Her work focuses on abstracted elements found in the natural world, forming loosely interpreted landscapes which do not reference specific places. Interested in the coexistence of order and chaos, and in the idea of humans as playing one tiny part in a much larger picture, Waters addresses the experience of a particular moment through the use of broad gestural movements. Lisa Haleís abstracted installation, City Blocks, combines sculpture and painting and functions as a metaphor for communities in both urban and rural environments. The many, many literal blocks that make up the work hang haphazardly on the wall, somewhat like picture frames. The blocks are painted white except for their outer edges, which are each painted with a separate, transparent and appealing color. Most of the frames are empty, though a few contain one smaller block of some irregular shape nestled inside. None of these so-called ìframesî are squared, so that the apparent reference to city streets or architectural structures seems to have gone somewhat awry. The painting Intersection features many abstract forms, zips and dashes in pleasing colors that move along in a frenetic rhythm that reflects the pace of contemporary life. Lisa Marie Waters: Retrospective will be on view June 4 through July 17; Ellie Brown: Elastic Identity will be on view June 11 through July 31; and Lisa Hale: Depicting Spaces, On and Off the Wall will be on view June 11 through August 14, all at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 636 F St., Eureka., CA. Particularly interested in the coming of age experience, Brown attempts to document the lives of specific girls as they go through these life changes. Looking for the visible signs of identity crises, media Humboldt Arts Council
Each month, Artweek Previews Editor Debra Koppman highlights selected exhibitions from venues listed in the Artweek Exhibition Calendar.
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