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| Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2011 |
Game Boards, Haslla Art World Museum, Jeongdongjin, Gang-Neung Si, South Korea |
| 2010 |
WHAT I SAW: Paintings from the Hermitage, Gulf Coast, Florida, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ |
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND OTHER ABSTRACTIONS, Ruth S. Harley University Center Gallery at Adelphi University, Garden City, NY |
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY |
| 2002 |
Game Boards, 80 Washington Square East, New York City, NY |
| 1997 |
Game Boards, The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY |
| 1992 |
New Horse Work, Winkler Galleries, Sutter Creek, CA |
| 1986 |
Horses, Elan Gallery, Bismarck, ND |
| 1982 |
Hanky Collages and Altar Constructions, Mythology, New York City, NY |
| 1980 |
Two Cows, Harriman College, Harriman, NY |
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Selected Group
Exhibtions |
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| 2011 |
Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT |
| 2010 |
LIC Grid, Acumen Capital Partners, Long Island City, NY |
| 2007 |
Art Bars, Ithaca Fine Chocolate, Ithaca, NY |
| 2006 |
Fragments, Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, MI |
| 2005 |
Wax: Encaustic Techniques in Contemporary Art, Brush Art Gallery,
Lowell, MA |
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Color and Form, Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, MI |
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Intimate Abstraction, Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL |
| 2004 |
Drawn to the Present, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY |
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Pattern Into Pattern, New York Law School, New York City, NY |
| 2003 |
Surface, Matter, & Artifice, Dutchess Community College Art Gallery,
Poughkeepsie, NY |
| 2002 |
4 Square, Gallery Korea, New York City, NY |
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Print 2002, 354 Exhibitions, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2001 |
Over Times Squared, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City, NY |
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Encaustic, Encaustic..., Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2000 |
Contemporary Mandalas, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT |
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New Artists, Lead Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1999 |
Encaustic Works 1999, Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston, NY |
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Game Show, The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA |
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Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, The Montclair Art Museum and traveling to Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN |
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Cross Purposes, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ |
| 1998 |
Art as Spectacle, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
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Pet Shop, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York City, NY |
| 1997 |
Contemporary Visions, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT |
| 1993 |
A-Z, 0-9, ES Vandam, New York City, NY |
| 1991 |
Faith Nightingale Gallery, San Diego, CA |
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Winkler Galleries, Sutter Creek, CA |
| 1990 |
Faith Nightingale Gallery, San Diego, CA |
| 1987 |
Santa Fe Institute of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM |
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Hudson Gallery, New York City, NY |
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Animals ‘R Us, Kraine Club Gallery, New York City, NY |
| 1986 |
Artist Books Invitational, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA |
| 1981 |
Re: Pages, New England for the Arts Touring Exhibition, RI, MA, CT, NH |
| 1980 |
10 Downtown, New York City, NY |
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| Public Commissions |
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| 2006 |
THE VIEW FROM HERE, 7 faceted glass windscreens commissioned by the NYC MTA’s Arts For Transit Program for the |
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elevated Van Siclen Avenue Station on the Jamaica Line in Brooklyn, NY. Fabricated by Willet Hauser Architectural Glass. |
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Installed January 2007. |
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| 2004 |
WHILE WAITING, Two faceted glass windows 4’ x 4’ for a bus shelter in Summit, NJ. Commissioned by the City of Summit. |
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Fabricated by Willet Hauser Architectural Glass. Installed March 2006. |
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| 2003 |
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, 55 encaustic paintings 10’x 48’ permanently installed in the Cambria Heights Branch Library, |
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Cambria Heights, NY. Commissioned by NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs Percent For Art Program, The Queens Borough |
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Public Library, and NYC’s Department of Design and Construction. Kostow Greenwood Architects. Installed April 2006. |
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| Awards, Lectures, Panelist, Residencies, Visiting Artist |
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| 2011 |
International Artist Symposium, Haslla Art World Museum, Jeongdongjin, Gang-Neung Si, South Korea |
| 2010 |
The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL |
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Visiting Artist, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY |
| 2009 |
Visiting Artist, St. Johns University, Queens, NY |
| 2008 |
Panelist, Percent for Art, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City, NY |
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Visiting Artist, St. Johns University, Queens, NY |
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Visiting Artist, R & F Handmade Paints, Kingston, NY |
| 2007 |
Visiting Artist, St. Johns University, Queens, NY |
| 2005 |
Slide Lecture, School of Visual Art, New York City, NY |
| 2004 |
Slide Lecture, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY |
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Slide Lecture, School of Visual Art, New York City, NY |
| 1999 |
Gallery Talk, The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA |
| 1998 |
Juror’s Award - Thema Golden, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
| 1986 |
Slide Lecture, Elan Gallery, Bismarck, ND |
| 1983 |
Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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| Joanne Mattera, “Affinities: Fiber and Wax,” Surface Design Journal, Winter 2011. |
| Marylou Morano, “Nature Inspires Artist’s Mixed Media Exhibit,” The Westfield Leader, January 6, 2011. |
| Staff Journalist, “Ellmann’s What I Saw Exhibition To Open At Union County College Gallery,” NJ Today, November 11, 2010. |
| Daniella Woolf, Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility, Waxy Buildup Press, 2010. |
| Cindy Stockton Moore, “Missing Train, Catching Art,” The New York Sun, April 16, 2007, p.2. |
| Joyce Shelby, “Subway Art Glowin’ in the Wind,” New York Daily News, February 13, 2007, p.10. |
| William Ayres and Sandra Bloodworth, Along the Way, MTA Arts for Transit, The Monacelli Press, 2006. |
| Eleanor Heartney, City Art, New York’s Percent for Art Program, Merrell, 2005. |
| Joanna Arettam, Spirit Maps, Red Wheel / Weiser, 2001. |
| Faye Hirsch, “Working Proof,” Art On Paper, Vol. 6, No. 1, Sept-Oct 2001. |
| Joanne Mattera, The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, Watson-Guptill, 2001. |
| Kay Turner, Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women’s Altars, Thames & Hudson, 1999. |
| Robin Updike, “Game Show,” The Seattle Times, November 26, 1999, p. H1. |
| Holland Cotter, “A Garden of Subjects, Materials and Styles Across New Jersey,” New York Times, July 30, 1999, p. 36. |
| Gail Stavitsky, Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America (catalog), Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, May, 1999. |
| Marion Filler, “Crucifixion continues to inspire works of art,” Daily Record, Morris County, NJ, March 13, 1999, p. B7. |
| Vivien Raynor, “A Sense of the Spectacle and Its Place in Society,” New York Times, Sunday, May 10, 1998. |
| Florence Schetzel, “Art’s in full bloom at local galleries,” Poughkeepsie Journal, December 26, 1997, p. 1D. |
| Kathi Norklun, “Games people paint,” Woodstock Times, December 25, 1997, p. 23. |
| “Where I Live” and “Water Carrier,” Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Vol. 17:2, Winter, 1997. |
| Wendy Martin, ed. Photo Essay on Barbara Ellmann’s Sculpture, Women’s Studies, Claremont, CA, December, 1995. |
| Women Sculptors of the 90's, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, December, 1995. |
| Kay Turner, “Barbara Ellmann — Altars,” lady-unique-inclination-of-the-night, Cycle 6, University of Texas, Austin, TX, Autumn, 1983. |
| Gary Richman, Re:Pages. An Exhibition of Contemporary American Bookworks, Hera Educational Foundation/New England Foundation |
| for the Arts, 1981. |
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Corporate and Private Collections |
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| Peter Norton |
| United States Embassy, Kampala, Uganda |
| Leonard Nimoy |
| Banner Estrella Medical Center, AZ |
| Four Seasons Hotel and Resort, Marrakech, Morocco |
| Peter J. Sharp Foundation |
| Walter Scheuer |
| Acumen Capital Partners LLC, NY |
| Centre Solutions, Bermuda |
| Judge Alan C. Marin |
| New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
| Queens Borough Public Library |
| City of Summit, NJ |
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| EDUCATION |
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| Master Class with James Rosenquist, Guggenheim Museum, 2003 |
| Master Class with Nancy Graves, Santa Fe Institute of Fine Art, 1987 |
| School of Visual Arts, 1980-84 |
| University of Michigan, 1968-69 |
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