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Seth Ellison
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Seth Ellison (b. 1984, Beckley, WV) graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2009 and received an MFA from University of the Arts in 2012. Ellison’s practice skillfully quilts facets of abstraction and representation to compose an expansive and lyrical vision of the American South brimming with allegory. His process is additive and automatic, recontextualizing the nostalgic and sentimental by lifting from American Regionalism, European Modernism, the Old Masters, Sunday comics, and other popular media sources and art historical movements. Various copied elements, direct citations, visual cues, formal rules and aesthetic styling synthesize in a milieu of references and associations. Though this hybridization of influences proposes an examination and recontextualization of cultural limitations and fears, it is permeated by an underlying yearning for transcendence. Ellison’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Chesapeake Arts Center in Brooklyn Park, MD entitled Days of Strange Grandeur. Group exhibitions include those at Studio Artego, New York, NY; Incubator Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Court Tree Collective, Brooklyn, NY; Sojourner Gallery, New York, NY; Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY; Gallery051, Busan, South Korea; Royal Blue Gallery, London, UK; and, FRESH SALAD, London, UK. Ellison’s work has been featured in Huts Magazine, Artsin Square, Art Seen, and Modern Renaissance among many others.
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Seth Ellison (b. 1984, Beckley, WV) graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2009 and received an MFA from University of the Arts in 2012. Ellison’s practice skillfully quilts facets of abstraction and representation to compose an expansive and lyrical vision of the American South brimming with allegory. His process is additive and automatic, recontextualizing the nostalgic and sentimental by lifting from American Regionalism, European Modernism, the Old Masters, Sunday comics, and other popular media sources and art historical movements. Various copied elements, direct citations, visual cues, formal rules and aesthetic styling synthesize in a milieu of references and associations. Though this hybridization of influences proposes an examination and recontextualization of cultural limitations and fears, it is permeated by an underlying yearning for transcendence. Ellison’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Chesapeake Arts Center in Brooklyn Park, MD entitled Days of Strange Grandeur. Group exhibitions include those at Studio Artego, New York, NY; Incubator Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Court Tree Collective, Brooklyn, NY; Sojourner Gallery, New York, NY; Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY; Gallery051, Busan, South Korea; Royal Blue Gallery, London, UK; and, FRESH SALAD, London, UK. Ellison’s work has been featured in Huts Magazine, Artsin Square, Art Seen, and Modern Renaissance among many others.