Ellen Burchenal

Work samples

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About Ellen

Ellen Burchenal is an artist who makes paintings and drawings. An adjunct instructor in the MICA Senior Thesis program, she is also the coordinator/faculty for the MICA Italy Summer program, and visiting faculty for the MICA @SACI Honors Studio program in Florence, Italy. The recipient of a NEA residency grant, an AIA Honors Award, and six Maryland State Arts Council Artist Fellowships, Burchenal has exhibited and lectured in galleries and universities throughout the region and in Italy. … more

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Florence Winter Drawings 2017

Series of 15" x 11" mixed media works on paper worked on during a winter residence/teaching appointment in Florence, Italy.
works use ink, gouache, collage and acrylic skins.

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Walking Tour

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Thank you Notes

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Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly)

These are digital ink jet prints. Using the small drawings from the Hotel Drawing Series (below) I experimented with blowing up the drawings - to make the small mark more monumental. The color and background refer to the everyday landscape of Sorrento, Sant'Agnello and Naples.

Bar 13

44" x 31" Digital ink jet print
Cloister 1

44" x 33" digital ink jet print
Bench

44" x 31" Digital ink jet print
Festina Lente (Make Haste Slowly)

Installation view, 44" x 25'
Pizza Box

44" x 44" digital ink jet print
Office

44" x 56" digital ink jet print
Sidewalk

44" x 44" digital ink jet print
Cloister 2

44" x 43" digital ink jet print
Room 210

44" x 44" digital ink jet prin
Chapel

44" x 44" digital ink jet print

Hotel Drawings

The Hotel Drawings are a series of small ink drawings of mirrors or frames. They were started in a hotel room in southern Italy. In 2008, living in the center of Florence, Italy, I was struck by how the decorative architectural forms literally elbowed me out into the street. So I have been experimenting with ways to make these lap sized drawings as big as I am.
(see Festina Lente series above)

from Hotel Drawing Series

9" x 7" Ink and paint pen on paper
from Hotel Drawing Series

9" x 7" Ink and paint pen on paper
from Hotel Drawing Series

9" x 7" Ink and paint pen on paper
from Hotel Drawing Series

9" x 7" Ink and paint pen on paper
from Hotel Drawing Series

7" x 9" Ink and paint pen on paper
from Hotel Drawing Series

7" x 9" Ink and paint pen on paper
from Hotel Drawing Series

8" x 8" Ink and paint pen on paper
from Hotel Drawing Series

7" x 7" Ink and paint pen on paper
from Hotel Drawing Series

8" x 6" Ink and paint pen on paper
Hotel Drawing Series (partial)

installation view

Untitled Daily Drawings

Selected drawings from daily drawing series, 2015-2016. India ink, watercolor, and acrylic collage on paper, approx. 7" x 5".

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Series of 365 individual prints (intaglio etching and aquatint) on various papers, metal pins 48 inches by 48 inches Storage Space Gallery Installation, Towson, MD
untitled daily drawing

Gouache on paper, 7" x 5"
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