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sHARON ELLIS
(B. 1955)
Sharon Ellis is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist who is best known for her hallucinogenic, dreamlike landscape paintings. Her work is often based on themes found in nature that investigate the feelings evoked by the passage of time. She has explored this idea through paintings that visually present a single day as it progresses from morning through night, as well as the cycles of the changing seasons from Winter through Spring, Summer, and Fall.
Ellis has also created paintings that focus on the four elements and often include natural forms like clouds, stars, trees, flowers and wind. Many have been influenced by nineteenth century Romantic Poetry. Her compositions can be described as harmonious, balanced and orderly. Her canvases are representational rather than abstract and seem connected to the work of the Surrealists with their fluid lines and floating, shifting elements that evolve straight out of the artist's creative imagination.
Her paintings are filled with minute details that require many hours of work and patience and the application of paint in multiple layers. She only completes a few paintings each year, so her canvases are limited in number, as well as very unique, delighting her devoted collectors.
Sharon Ellis's work was exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2002 for a show titled "Evocations: Sharon Ellis, 1991-2001" organized by the Long Beach Museum of Art.
For additional information, visit:
San Jose Museum of Art exhibit: "Evocations: Sharon Ellis, 1991-2001"
California Desert Art: Friendly Universe: The Electric Landscapes of Sharon Ellis