Ellen Garvens' show is going up February 23rd-March 31st. Come on over to the WSU Fine Art Building for the Opening on February 24th at 5pm. Lecture with reception to follow!
- Ellens Artist Statement on her series Prosthesis:Ambivalence
- Bio from the UW Website
- Ellen Garvens
- Associate Professor
The body, tools, and science are subjects I have consistently examined with my work as an artist over the last 25 years. I have combined photography, sculpture and drawing with interest in the fluctuation between two and three dimensions. Crossovers and intersections have persisted in a current project that is interested in what art, the social sciences and healthcare might find by bringing them in closer contact. This research has been based in prosthetic clinics in the US and Southeast Asia. In addition to the narrative direction of the prosthetic work, I continue to work in the studio with a series of temporary sculptures translated into photographs and drawings.
I received a B.S. in Art at the University of Wisconsin and a MFA from the University of New Mexico. The work has been included in numerous national and international gallery and museum exhibitions. Grants include a Fulbright–Hayes Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship Grant, and an Artist Trust /Washington State Fellowship. My work has been reviewed in Arts Magazine, Art on Paper, Sculpture Magazine, The Village Voice, New Art Examiner, New York Times, Creative Camera London, and SF Camerawork. It has been featured in MIT Press book by Geoffrey Batchen, Each Wild Idea. I have been teaching at the University of Washington for 15 years.
Come meet her in person at the opening and get a better understanding at her work during her lecture February 24th at 5pm!
