Ellen Gordon

Title:
News Reports from Planet Earth, 2022

Exhibition Date:
July 2021

Acrylic on Canvas

Comment:
 My current body of work is in part a response to a patriarchal structure and a dominating power system that has survived generations of political protests and the fight for equality.

30 x 30 inches

Keywords:
Oil,Canvas,Paper

Ellen Gordon

Location, ST

Ellen Gordon is featured in the Summer/Fall 2023 online exhibition.

Artist Statement

I’m an artist, poet, and curator, and Artistic Director of Artpoetica Project Space in

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Image Info

Ellen Gordon

Summer/Fall Exhibition Catalogue

www.ellensgordon.com

@gordon.ellen

 

Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT-based mixed media artist whose work balances the collision between color, form and personal narrative. Her work is a process of spontaneously transforming flat shape, linear elements, and her use of color to create contemporary abstract and portrait compositions. Over the past two decades, Gordon’s work has evolved through many phases, but her main body of work centers on figurative collages – intimate yet colorful portrayals of a woman in her own thoughts, providing the viewer a window into honest moments with a series of striking and bold women. Her most recent work has been a transition into the abstract patterns, experimenting with geometric shapes and inverted forms in color palettes evoking various states of mind.

 

Ellen Gordon’s art training is from the Greenwich Art Society Silvermine Arts Guild and the Rowayton Arts Centre.   She holds an undergraduate degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from Baruch College, NYC.  She has exhibited regionally and is the recipient of many awards.

In 2022, Ms Gordon became the curator of the Mayor’s Art Gallery in Stamford, CT.

Quad 4
2022
acrylic on canvas (four panels)
total dimension: 40 x 40 inches

“Quad 4” is a transition into the abstraction pattern making, experimenting with geometric shapes and inverted forms in color palettes evoking various states of mind. 

Ribbons in the Sky
2022
acrylic and watercolor on d’arches paper
22 x 30 inches

“Ribbons in the Sky” is an intimate yet colorful portrayal of a woman in her own thoughts, providing the viewer a window into honest moments. 

Vortex 3
2022
oil on d’arches watercolor paper
22 x 30 inches

“Vortex 3” into the abstraction, experimenting with concentric shapes and movement.