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Lori Ellison
January 5 - February 11, 2012


 
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."
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10024
Untitled, 2002
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10027
Untitled, 1999
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10032
Untitled, 2002
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10029
Untitled, 2004
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10025
Untitled, 1998
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10042
Untitled, 2008
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10040
Untitled, 2005
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10050
Untitled, 1998
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10049
Untitled, 2003
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10041
Untitled, 2005
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10048
Untitled, 2007
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10021
Untitled, 2006
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10009
Untitled, 2011
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10028
Untitled, 2002
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10039
Untitled, 2000
Ink on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10068
Untitled, 2011
Gouache on wood panel
10 x 8 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10070
Untitled, 2011
Gouache on wood panel
10 x 8 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10071
Untitled, 2011
Gouache on wood panel
10 x 8 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Red Triangles
Red Triangles, 2002
Enamel on wood panel
14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, In the Heartland
In the Heartland, 1997
Gouache on wood panel
36 x 24 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10083
Untitled, 2010
Gouache on wood panel
7 x 5 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10084
Untitled, 2011
Gouache on wood panel
7 x 5 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10072
Untitled, 2011
Gouache on wood panel
10 x 8 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10069
Untitled, 2010
Gouache on wood panel
11 x 8 1/2 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10073
Untitled, 2010
Gouache on wood panel
10 x 8 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10075
Untitled, 2011
Gouache on wood panel
8 x 6 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10078
Untitled, 2010
Gouache on wood panel
8 x 6 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Tears
Tears, 2003
Glitter glue on wood panel
6 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Circuitry I
Circuitry I, 2000
Glitter glue on wood panel
14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Triangles
Triangles, 2002
Gouache on wood panel
12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Beaded Curtain
Beaded Curtain, 2000
Oil on wood panel
18 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Veins
Veins, 1999
Enamel on wood panel
9 x 6 3/4 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Frondly
Frondly, 1998
Oil on wood panel
31 1/2 x 21 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Sea Pods
Sea Pods, 2006
Gouache on wood panel
9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches
 
Lori Ellison, In the Forest
In the Forest, 2004
Glitter glue on wood panel
16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Chex
Chex, 2001
Egg tempera on wood panel
14 x 6 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Circuitry
Circuitry, 2005
Glitter glue on wood panel
7 x 5 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled
To the Sun, 2002
Glitter glue on wood panel
13 x 11 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10053
Untitled, 2009
Gouache on wood panel
14 x 11 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10052
Untitled, 2011
Gouache on wood panel
10 x 8 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10076
Untitled, 2010
Gouache on wood panel
8 x 6 inches
 
Lori Ellison, Untitled LE10077
Untitled, 2010
Gouache on wood panel
8 x 6 inches
 
  Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 1
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Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 2
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Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 3
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Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 7
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Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 6
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  Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 8
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Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 10
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Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 11
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  Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 12
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Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 13
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Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 14
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  Lori Ellison, 2012 installation 15
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