Artist Statement:
Ellen Brook is a painter of vibrant and expressive abstract mixed media and dye on silk paintings. Ellen's passion for color, spontaneous gestures, marks and textiles produces work that has been called 'visual poetry." Ellen's most recent series, "Message in a Bottle," explores the nature of connection to one's self and lineage through time and space using the words, passions and physicality of family letters and postcards.
For Ellen's dye on silk paintings, think 'watercolor on silk'. They are lightweight, stretched over wooden stretcher bars (like canvas) and wall mountable.
Ellen also creates one of a kind fashion that has many of the same qualities of energy, dynamism and movement found in her visual art.
Exhibitions:
2021
Installation at UCSF, China Basin
2017
"Sanctuary" Woodside Priory (solo)
2016
"Handmade" Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (group)
2013
"Awaken" San Mateo County Law Library, Redwood City, CA (solo)
“Color on the Rocks" GraniteRock Design Showroom, Cupertino, CA (2-person)
“Color and Line” New Coast Studios, Palo Alto, Ca (group)
2012
“Women of Wisdom,” Gallery at Fibre Arts Design, Palo Alto, Ca. (group)
“Dreamscapes: Color Explorations on Silk,” Gallery at Fibre Arts Design, Palo Alto, Ca (solo)
2011
Hinc Showroom, Galleria Design Center, San Francisco, Ca.
“Inspired,” Spirit House, Woodside Ca, (solo)
“Bay Area Contemporary Painters”, Arc Studios and Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. (group)
2010
“Watermarks II” - selected as one of 13 paintings on cover of San Francisco Open Studios Guide
Ariba Software, Lobby, Sunnyvale, Ca
Momentum 2, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, Ca (group)
Artist Tags:
bold, abstract, expressionist, acrylic, gestural, bottle
