Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary American artist traversing disciplines of drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Her solo and collaborative works have addressed wide-ranging subjects such as physical fitness, endurance, illness, social ritual, and religious tradition. She is interested in art merging with everyday life and public and private experiences colliding in unexpected places. She is a descendant of LDS prophet Lorenzo Snow and was raised as a Mormon; some of her work relates to her religious upbringing.[1][2] She is openly queer and married to writer/ performer Tania Katan.[3]
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| Born | Angela Ellsworth |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Hampshire College (BFA) Rutgers University (MFA) |
| Partner | Tania Katan 2006-present |
| Website | aellsworth |
Ellsworth is a professor in the School of Art at ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.[4] She studied at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she received a bachelor's degree in fine art, and graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a Master of Fine Arts degree in performance and painting.[3] She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture on a fellowship.
Ellsworth has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, and at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona.[3] She is one of the founders of the Museum of Walking (MoW) which is the only museum of its kind in the United States. [5] Her work can be found in Art News, Fiber Arts, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Canadian Art, Frieze Art, Artforum.com, and Performance Research.
She has presented work nationally and internationally including the Getty Center (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Australia), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow, Scotland), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, California), Crystal Bridges (Bentonville, Arkansas), Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, Arizona), Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver), Colorado), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, Arizona), and Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, Arizona.)
Awards and grants include Art Matters, Franklin Furnace, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, from Mexic-Arte Museum, and DiverseWorks, funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. She is represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix Arizona and Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City.
Selected solo exhibitions and performance (2018–2008)
edit| Year | Title | Gallery/Museum | Location | Notes |
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| 2018 | Angela Ellsworth: Holding Pattern | Lisa Sette Gallery | Phoenix, Arizona | |
| Angela Ellsworth: Leaving Loves Company | University of Illinois | Springfield, Illinois | ||
| Angela Ellsworth: Between Them | Western New Mexico University | Silver City, New Mexico | ||
| 2015 | Angela Ellsworth: Volume I | Joseph Gross Gallery | Tucson, Arizona | |
| 2014 | Stand Back | Crystal Bridges | Bentonville, Arkansas | Action/Interaction, (performance) |
| Angela Ellsworth: Volume | Lisa Sette Gallery | Scottsdale, Arizona | ||
| Soundproofed Laboratory | Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art | Scottsdale, Arizona | ||
| Promiscuous Code/ Plural Wife Project | Julius Caesar Gallery | Chicago, Illinois | (Two-person with ATOM-r: Mark Jeffrey & Judd Morrissey) | |
| 2012-11 | Seeing Is Believing: Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth | Phoenix Art Museum | Phoenix, Arizona | (Installation, Sculpture, and Performance) |
| 2011 | Training, Walking, and Drawing | Fehily Contemporary | Melbourne, Australia | |
| They May Appear in Alone, in Lines, or in Clusters | Lisa Sette Gallery | Scottsdale, Arizona | ||
| Where The Skies Are Blue | Arizona State University Art Museum | Tempe, Arizona | (Performance) | |
| 2010 | Angela Ellsworth: Seer Bonnets: A Continuing Offense | Snow College Gallery | Ephraim, Utah | |
| Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch | Museum of Contemporary Art | 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia | (Performance) | |
| Another Women’s Movement | IN>TIME, Chicago Cultural Center | Chicago, Illinois | (Performance) | |
| Another Women’s Movement | Murphy Hall Fine Arts Building, Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles, California | (Performance) | |
| 2009 | Underpinnings | Lisa Sette Gallery | Scottsdale, Arizona | |
| Compounded | Lisa Sette Gallery | Scottsdale, Arizona | (Performance) | |
| Arte Gigante Variety Hour | Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Stage 2 Theatre, | Scottsdale, Arizona | Artist on Artist Series, Collaboration with Rico Reyes
(Performance) | |
| 2008 | Overflow | The Getty Center | Los Angeles, California | Reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s Fluids, Collaboration with LA Art Girls (Performance) |
| Is This The Place II | University of California | Santa Cruz, California | Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking art as Social Practice (Performance) | |
| Pace Yourself II: Flexible Detection of Sound | Glendale Temporary Public Art Project | Glendale, Arizona | (Performance) | |
| Drawing on Site, | National Review of Live Art | Glasgow, Scotland | Depicting Action (Performance) |
References
edit- ^ "Intriguing Art with Social Commentary at Art Miami". Artsy Editorial. Artsy. November 25, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
- ^ Sativa Peterson. "Hero Worship (2010) Angela Ellsworth". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
- ^ a b c Kathleen Vanesian. "Angela Ellsworth on Being Gay, the Mormon Church, and Her Increasing Artistic Success". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
- ^ ASUHerberger (October 29, 2018), Meet Angela Ellsworth, School of Art Professor, retrieved March 2, 2019
- ^ Sarah Ventre (November 6, 2015). "Museum of Walking Wishes You Would Take a Hike". KJZZ. Rio Salado College and Maricopa Community Colleges. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
- ^ "CV". Angela Ellsworth. Retrieved March 2, 2019.