Ellen Driscoll
Ellen Driscoll’s professional work includes sculpture, drawing, installation, and public art. Recent works include Distant Mirrors, a stunning, floating archipelago of forms in the Providence River for 6 weeks in 2011. Co-produced with Waterfire, this work was created in partnership with the Roger Williams National Memorial and the Rhode Island Resources Recovery Corporation. Her multi-part, multi-year project, FASTFORWARDFOSSILhighlighting the relationship between water and oil consumption was displayed at the SmackMellon Gallery in Brooklyn, N. Y. and Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, N.Y. (2009) and Skibbereen, Ireland (2010). Her most recent solo exhibition was “Core Sample” at the Esther Massry Gallery at the College of St. Rose curated by Jeanne Flanagan in 2012, and at Amherst College in 2013.
Driscoll's previous work includes installations such as The Loophole of Retreat, Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris (1991); and Passionate Attitudes, Threadwaxing Space, New York (1995). Several public art projects include As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal (1999); a suite of 20 mosaic and glass works for the tunnels at 45th, 47th and 48th streets; Catching the Drift, a women’s restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art (2003); and Aqueous Humour, a kinetic sculpture for the South Boston Maritime Park (2004).
The Artist has received numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Anonymous Was a Woman, the LEF Foundation, and Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute. Her work is included in major public and private collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York; the Detroit Institute of Art; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; University of Michigan Museum of Art and Smith College Museum of Art, among others.
Ellen Driscoll is currently Co-Chair of the Studio Arts program at Bard College with Judy Pfaff.
American. Based in NY, USA.
Available Works
DownSideUp 2011
SCULPTURE
Artist: EllenDriscoll
Sculpture Dimensions: 13” x 10” x 9”
Materials: Recycled #2 Plastic
About: Made in 2011 as the world reeled from the bursting of the housing bubble and subsequent economic turmoil, DownSideUp was created as a maquette for a re-imagined "Speaker's Corner" in which anyone could climb the ladder to speak his or her mind about squandered resources both natural (the piece is made from plastic, an oil product, used to sell bottled water) and economic.
Proceeds Benefit: 50% of the net proceeds from the sale of this sculpture go to Project Aware.
Price: $3,000 USD
(Price does not include shipping or installation costs.)
Wraith, 2011
SCULPTURE
Artist: Ellen Driscoll
Sculpture Dimensions: 12’4” x 7’5” x 36”
Materials: Recycled #2 Plastic.
About: “Wraith” is a translucent mountain hanging like a floating cloud just above the heads of viewers. Clinging to its underside, are elements from an upside-down, contemporary American landscape. By having the translucent mountain act as the host for the shrunken parasitic landscape on it’s underside, the interconnectedness of American habits of consumption with such consequences as the melting of glaciers form an uncanny alliance.
Proceeds Benefit: 50% of the net proceeds from the sale of this sculpture go to Project Aware.
Price: $30,000 USD
(Price does not include shipping or installation costs.)
Oil Refinery, 2009
PRINT
Artist: Ellen Driscoll
Sculpture Dimensions: 20” x 30”
Materials: Unframed print on tyvek. Limited edition of 10.
Proceeds Benefit: 50% of the net proceeds from the sale of this sculpture go to Project Aware.
Price: $500 USD
(Price does not include shipping or installation costs.)
For purchasing, high resolution images or other details, please contact ellendriscoll@gmail.com
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