Artist Information:
Ellie Brown
Philadelphia, PA
United States
Member Since: Oct 2006
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Artist Statement:
About My Sisters 1996-2006
I began photographing my
sisters in 1993 during my
first photography class in
high school. It wasn’t until I
was a junior at Mass Art that
I began to take it seriously
as a project and see its
larger potential.
I began trying to compare my
sister’s very different lives
to my own. We have different
mothers; theirs being Jane my
stepmother, but we share the
same father I was fascinated
by how I thought they were
being socialized into Girls
with a capital G. I loved when
I could catch them staring in
the mirror pretending to have
breasts, playing with their
toy ironing boards and dolls
or playing dress-up in a
princess dress. At the same
time, I started photographing
their friends. What I
discovered defeated my notion
that there was an easy
definition to what a girl is.
At this time Abby was seven
and Emily was eight. Emily was
adopted when I was 12 because
my stepmother and father
couldn’t conceive. As soon as
they adopted her, Jane became
pregnant with Abby. They are
nine months apart and where
always in the same grade. I
was absolutely...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibition Record
Solo Exhibitions
2009- Lover’s Books Center for
the Book Arts, New York, NY
2008- Images from Ciudad
Colon, Galeria Nacional, San
Jose, Costa Rica
2007- Yo Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
2006- International Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Anchorage,
AK
2005- Johnson & Johnson, New
Brunswick, NJ
Morris Graves Museum
of ...
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Ellie Brown's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Ellie Brown's Portfolio. Browse Brown's body of work:
About My Sisters 1996-2006
I began photographing my sisters in 1993 during my first photography class in high school. It wasn’t until I was a junior at Mass Art that I began to take it seriously as a project and see its larger potential.
I began trying to compare my sister’s very different lives to my own. We have different mothers; theirs being Jane my stepmother, but we share the same father I was fascinated by how I thought they were being socialized into Girls with a capital G. I loved when I could catch them staring... |
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Emily Spreading Gown, 2006
Color Photograph,
20 x 16 inches
Price: US$ 300
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Corsage Crisis, 2004
Color Photograph,
20 x 16 inches
Price: US$ 300
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Abby , 1996
Silver Gelatin Photograph,
14 x 11 inches
Price: US$ 250
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Abigail 11, 2001
Color Photograph,
20 x 16 inches
Price: US$ 300
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Korean Notebook 17, 2008
Color Photograph,
16 x 20 inches
Price: US$ 600
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