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Carpet and Arch by Ellen Wiener

$7,500.00

2015

Unique woodcut with etching, relief print, lithographic transfers and hand coloring, framed

45” x 32.5”

Ellen Wiener

I approach printmaking as a feast- it is an enormous set of tools-- a bounteous chemistry set that serves and enhances content in a multitude of ways. As an artist, it gives me the opportunity to experiment with all the 'versions' one cannot experience or see in a single painting. As a teacher, I know it jogs leery novices right out of the 'masterpiece' mindset.

Unlike my quiet monastic painting studio, printmaking is a practice always engaged in conversation; it engenders successive discourse, many voices and progressive solutions.

2015

Unique woodcut with etching, relief print, lithographic transfers and hand coloring, framed

45” x 32.5”

Ellen Wiener

I approach printmaking as a feast- it is an enormous set of tools-- a bounteous chemistry set that serves and enhances content in a multitude of ways. As an artist, it gives me the opportunity to experiment with all the 'versions' one cannot experience or see in a single painting. As a teacher, I know it jogs leery novices right out of the 'masterpiece' mindset.

Unlike my quiet monastic painting studio, printmaking is a practice always engaged in conversation; it engenders successive discourse, many voices and progressive solutions.

Ellen Wiener is a visual artist whose prints, paintings and books revolve around themes concerning landscape, reading, myth and the natural sciences. She has shown and or spoken about her work in such disparate places as The International Medieval Conference, The National Academy of Design, The New York Botanical Gardens, Physics Magazine, the American Antiquarian Society, The Center for Book Arts NYC, The Princeton Theological Seminary, PS 1, and The International Joint Mathematics Conference besides participating in over 100 exhibitions at libraries, museums and galleries in the US and Europe. She is a MacDowell fellow and her work has been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, The NY Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Art Forum, Art in America, and The Washington Post.

Ellen and her family have lived on the North Fork since 1989.