Interviews/Press
About the Artist:
Ellen Sherman is a visual artist working in Ann Arbor, MI.
She graduated from Michigan State University in 2008 with a BFA in Studio Art and moved to Miami, Florida where she worked as Lead Artist/Art Director for a mobile game studio.
After a few years of working on many award winning titles, she left her position in 2011 to focus on her own art full time.
In 2017 she and her husband moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan where she has since set up her studio and small gallery space.
Ellen’s work can be found in galleries and collections in the US, Canada, Japan, Greece, and the Netherlands.
Statement ///
I am endlessly interested in the meeting of planned and unplanned moments. I try to encourage these collisions by carefully controlling one aspect of the work and leaving another up to my materials or the environment I’m in. The result is a bit of a group project between the materials and an ever-morphing combination of marks and processes. In this I hope to examine ideas of finality and re-use.
My practice involves the use of hard and soft processes; powertools to shape wood and slow, quiet careful layering of painted and cut paper or canvas. Again, to find the point of balance between two opposing forces - or to find the unbalance that can be more interesting than it’s parts
PDF of CV (downloadable)