55 Orchard Street, New York, New York 10002 212 989 5467 fax 212 989 5642
55 Orchard Street, New York, New York 10002 212 989 5467 fax 212 989 5642 |
Lori Ellison |
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In her first solo exhibition at the gallery, Lori Ellison will exhibit ink on notebook paper drawings and gouache on panel paintings. Also in the show will be paintings executed on shaped panels in various materials ranging from enamel and glitter to egg tempera. These paintings have never been exhibited previously. Although the exhibition is mostly recent work, it will include pieces spanning the past two decades. What unifies the paintings and drawings is the artist’s interest in obsessive patterning and intimate scale. Whether executed in monochromatic grid patterns or playful, organically meandering compositions, Ellison repeats single motifs throughout her compositions: wedges, circles, rectangles, and forms within forms, as well as tendril-like shapes, ropes and linked chains, among many others. Her abstract motifs, referencing nature, textile patterns, and architectural decoration, fill the pictorial space in all-over densities. The works reveal an intensity of focus and an embrace of the manifold pleasures of the slow read. As the artist has noted, her interest is in "Proportion based on the lyric, not the epic - that is where the juice lives….Art that is the size and resonance of a haiku, quiet and solid as the ground beneath one's feet…A discreet art, valiantly purified of the whole hodgepodge of artist's tricks and tics." | |||||||
 Untitled, 2002 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 1999 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2002 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2004 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 1998 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2008 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2005 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 1998 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2003 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2005 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2007 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2006 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2011 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2002 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2000 Ink on paper 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2011 Gouache on wood panel 10 x 8 inches |
 Untitled, 2011 Gouache on wood panel 10 x 8 inches |
 Untitled, 2011 Gouache on wood panel 10 x 8 inches |
 Red Triangles, 2002 Enamel on wood panel 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches |
 In the Heartland, 1997 Gouache on wood panel 36 x 24 inches |
 Untitled, 2010 Gouache on wood panel 7 x 5 inches |
 Untitled, 2011 Gouache on wood panel 7 x 5 inches |
 Untitled, 2011 Gouache on wood panel 10 x 8 inches |
 Untitled, 2010 Gouache on wood panel 11 x 8 1/2 inches |
 Untitled, 2010 Gouache on wood panel 10 x 8 inches |
 Untitled, 2011 Gouache on wood panel 8 x 6 inches |
 Untitled, 2010 Gouache on wood panel 8 x 6 inches |
 Tears, 2003 Glitter glue on wood panel 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches |
 Circuitry I, 2000 Glitter glue on wood panel 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches |
 Triangles, 2002 Gouache on wood panel 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches |
 Beaded Curtain, 2000 Oil on wood panel 18 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches |
 Veins, 1999 Enamel on wood panel 9 x 6 3/4 inches |
 Frondly, 1998 Oil on wood panel 31 1/2 x 21 inches |
 Sea Pods, 2006 Gouache on wood panel 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches |
 In the Forest, 2004 Glitter glue on wood panel 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches |
 Chex, 2001 Egg tempera on wood panel 14 x 6 inches |
 Circuitry, 2005 Glitter glue on wood panel 7 x 5 inches |
 To the Sun, 2002 Glitter glue on wood panel 13 x 11 inches |
 Untitled, 2009 Gouache on wood panel 14 x 11 inches |
 Untitled, 2011 Gouache on wood panel 10 x 8 inches |
 Untitled, 2010 Gouache on wood panel 8 x 6 inches |
 Untitled, 2010 Gouache on wood panel 8 x 6 inches |
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