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Artist Exhibitions:
Book: Parramon
ediciones,2004,Barcelona,
Spain: MOSAICO by Philippa
Beveridge and Eva Pascual.
English edition MOSAICS 2005
by Parramon editorial staff.
Book depicts and discusses 2
works by this artist: "Fruit
Vendor: memories of home" and
"Dragon".
Book: Kennedy Promotions BEST
OF series' Best of Michigan
Artists and Artisans Third ...
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Artist Galleries:
Represented on these Websites:
www.americanmosaics.org
www.artservemichigan.org
www.vsami.org
www.parramon.com
www.Betweenthecracksmosaics.com
www.markschwing1.com
http://www.menopausethemusical.
com/detroit40x2.html
http://www.thecaid.org/artists/
artists-visual-profile.asp?aid=
e_stern
http://alumni.buffalo.edu/drpl/
node/589
www.stacyalexander.blogspot.com
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Artist Reviews:
http://www.alumni.buffalo.edu/p
rofile_stern.html
State University of New York
at Buffalo Alumni Bio dated
May 23, 2005.
DETROIT FREE PRESS-October
15,2004 BY CASSANDRA
SPRATLING;FREE PRESS STAFF
WRITER
ART IN PIECES, published in
EASY STREET Magazine, SC.:
"Ellen Stern is an emerging
artist that produces ...
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Collections:
Beaumont Hospital Facility,
Berkley, MI
Next Detroit Neighborhood
Initiative...
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Commissions:
Private Residence, Southfield,
Michigan, USA
Private Residence, Oak Park,
Michigan, USA
Private Loft;
Detroit,Michigan, USA...
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Artist Statement for Ellen Darlene Stern
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My quirky and unique style is not limited to one genre.
By combining disparate objects, textures, and references in new ways, I engage the viewers' emotions, humor and intellect.
I try to show the process of creation within the piece itself.
I hope to transmit to the viewer the same Eureka! moment that I experienced in conceiving the idea of the piece.
I have embarked on many simultaneous missions:
I play God(dess), attributing characteristics to my medium and by being consistent within one piece, I aim to convince the audience of their validity.
In some instances, I find, recreate, and reinforce the parallels between mosaic tile work and fiber work. I believe that pointillism began with the weaving of plaid, in which a warp and a weft of 2 different colors crossed each other and played a trick on our eyes, becoming yet a third color. This happened long ago in history, and the Pointillists, such as Seurat, were making use of this principle.
The task I have set for myself is to reproduce this effect in using bits of ceramic tile, making it appear that they have been woven as warp and weft, creating the illusion of a weaving.
Please see my piece "Mosaic Pointillist Plaid (number 44)on my gallery pages......added Feb 17,2005: Description: An imitation of weaving using ceramic tile. As fibers of a woven plaid pattern cross each other, they create an illusion of a new color, exactly as the Pointillist painters do. This piece is NOT really woven at all, but is imitating the effect of weaving." The loose strips were glued onto the flat canvas to add to the illusion. I have freed one of these canvasses from its bondage to its stretchers, and it has been made into a piece of wearable art.
In other instances I attribute characteristics of a liquid, of a sharp or cutting or corrosive substance, the possibilities are limitless.
Some of the artists who have inspired me: Ray Materson (embroidery), Glen Michaels(mosaic),Steve Gerberich (kinetic assemblage), Red Grooms, Frida Kahlo, Antonin Gaudi,Alexander Calder, Raymond Isidore, Rube Goldberg.
Thanks first to my wonderful husband, Frank Shannon Johnson, not only for transporting me and my art to and from many venues, who respects and is so supportive of my work and who helps me live my life as a fulltime artist.
Special thanks to Lisa Toigo and to the ART CLUB at Brighton High School.
Thanks to George Heritier(www.gangofpour.com) for my website: WWW.Betweenthecracksmosaics.com and to Sherry Chakrin of The Slide Project in Bedford,NH and to other appreciators, past and present: cousin Beth Woogen, friends Mary Birnbaum, Steve Neiman,Pam Goldman, and Sylvia Inwood,sculptor Ada Cruz, glass artist Philippa Beveridge, Phaedra Robinson, James Hart, and to Joe Taylor of the Tile Heritage Foundation, Janet Kozachek and other members of theSociety of American Mosaic Artists, Cassandra Spratling and Susan Tusa of The Detroit Free Press, and the galleries that have welcomed me so warmly that are listed in my "Exhibitions" section.
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