Barbara Ellmann

Born in Detroit, MI

BIO

Barbara Ellmann is a New York based artist who works in painting, drawing, and mixed media. She has produced public works for the MTA; the City of Summit, NJ; and the Queens Public Library. She is an educator at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and Lincoln Center Education. Exhibited widely, she has been selected for residencies at Bær Art Center in Iceland, Yaddo the Hermitage Artist Retreat, and Haslla Art World Museum in Gangneung, South Korea.

I am interested in close looking, and examining how parts come together to create a whole. I organize my encaustic paintings into large grids with the intention of creating unexpected connections between visual records of places near and far, past and present. This practice explores the patterns, landmarks, symbols, and colors that we use as markers to catalog visual experience, and gestures to the overabundance of visual stimuli that we daily sift through and assign meaning to.