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
2011- BAG, Glasgow Goodkind
Gallery, Glasgow, MT
2010- BAG, Independent Media
Center, Urbana, IL
2009- A Chronicle of Lovers
Center for the Book Arts, New
York, NY
Korean Notebooks
Orange Coast College
Photography Gallery, Costa
Mesa, CA 2009-
2008- Images from Ciudad
Colon, Galeria Nacional, San
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Dear Friends,
In my last email I announced
my partnership with United
States Artists to raise funds
for the BAG project to travel
to Montana. I am writing to
you again with a plea for
action. There are only
30-something days left for me
to reach my funding goal ...
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Commissions:
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Ellie Brown's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Ellie Brown's Portfolio.
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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