Ellie's profile
I was raised in Annapolis, Maryland and received my Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Towson University in 2013. I am currently a MFA candidate at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
My work is concerned with using scientific imagery as a means to discuss bodily disease including mental illness. I illustrate broader conversations of infection, replication, containment, and how our bodies are growing and simultaneously dying. Well and unwell both occur simultaneously in my paintings to discuss what it means to be cured of an illness. The concept of the “chemical veil,” a political term used to describe pharmaceuticals prescribed to disguise illness instead of curing the problem, is seen in the physical covering of pockets of disease. I am interested in mimicking the organic spread of disease with synthetic materials that beautifies, distracts, and disguises illness.
I create intimate, jewel-like objects that often reference various scientific disciplines in mediums, surfaces, tools, and compositions. Translucency and a spectrum of scale depicts the magnitude of the complexity of a variety of biological systems. I make internal disease visible with recognizable imagery such as wounds, flesh, bruises, and general biomorphic patterns that reference the innards of a body. I create abstracted space where the microscopic and real-sized organisms exist and interact on the same plane. Additive materials are tactile reinforcements of growth and reference fungi and lichen growth patterns that influence how they invisibly communicate. Proximity to the work determines the attractive or repulsive nature of the materials. Although still, my works captures a moment of constant emotive bloom.
My work is concerned with using scientific imagery as a means to discuss bodily disease including mental illness. I illustrate broader conversations of infection, replication, containment, and how our bodies are growing and simultaneously dying. Well and unwell both occur simultaneously in my paintings to discuss what it means to be cured of an illness. The concept of the “chemical veil,” a political term used to describe pharmaceuticals prescribed to disguise illness instead of curing the problem, is seen in the physical covering of pockets of disease. I am interested in mimicking the organic spread of disease with synthetic materials that beautifies, distracts, and disguises illness.
I create intimate, jewel-like objects that often reference various scientific disciplines in mediums, surfaces, tools, and compositions. Translucency and a spectrum of scale depicts the magnitude of the complexity of a variety of biological systems. I make internal disease visible with recognizable imagery such as wounds, flesh, bruises, and general biomorphic patterns that reference the innards of a body. I create abstracted space where the microscopic and real-sized organisms exist and interact on the same plane. Additive materials are tactile reinforcements of growth and reference fungi and lichen growth patterns that influence how they invisibly communicate. Proximity to the work determines the attractive or repulsive nature of the materials. Although still, my works captures a moment of constant emotive bloom.
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