Works
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Ellen BerkenblitLion Velvet Perfume, 2024 -
Ellen BerkenblitTailer, 2024
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Ellen BerkenblitFinery Plush, 2023
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Ellen BerkenblitLight Green, 2022
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Ellen BerkenblitWild Tulips, 2022
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Ellen BerkenblitFlora-nette, 2021
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Ellen BerkenblitFlugelhorn's Dream, 2022
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Ellen BerkenblitHearken, 2022
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Ellen BerkenblitThree Quarter Giraffe, 2021
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Ellen BerkenblitTiger Tails, 2020
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Ellen BerkenblitRed and Blue Taffeta, 2020
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Ellen BerkenblitStar Ribbon, 2020
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Ellen BerkenblitLeopard's Lane, 2019
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Ellen BerkenblitCircus of Books, 2019
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Ellen BerkenblitUntitled, 2018
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Ellen BerkenblitTiger Fur Umbrella, 2019
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Ellen BerkenblitJonesy, 2017
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Ellen BerkenblitUntitled, 2016
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Ellen BerkenblitUntitled, 2018
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Ellen BerkenblitUntitled, 2015
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Ellen BerkenblitGriffe, 2016
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Ellen BerkenblitUntitled, 2016
Exhibitions
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Ellen Berkenblit
September 4 - 26, 2024Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce a special presentation of new works by Ellen Berkenblit, featuring 10 gouaches with colorful Kozo paper collage elements, and a large-scale oil painting....Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit: Norton
April 21 - May 26, 2023Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce Ellen Berkenblit’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, spanning the first and second floors. This latest hometown presentation of oil paintings and gouache...Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit at WINDOW
WINDOW, 91 Walker Street New York, NY (corner of Walker and Lafayette Street) May 3 - June 25, 2022Read more -
Peep Show
WINDOW, 91 Walker Street New York, NY (corner of Walker and Lafayette Street) September 8 - October 31, 2021Anton Kern Gallery invites you to visit our WINDOW space, 91 Walker Street at Lafayette, for a playful, slightly naughty peek into Peep Show, a group exhibition curated by Brigitte...Read more
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NOW ON VIEW AT 16 EAST 55TH STREET
December 9 - 23, 2020Read more -
Sistergarden
Ellen Berkenblit February 20 - March 28, 2020Ellen Berkenblit’s eighth solo exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, Sistergarden, populates the main space with eleven large-scale paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Each face emerges from a...Read more -
One Night Only
Ellen Berkenblit October 24, 2019Ellen Berkenblit (born 1958 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American painter who lives and works in New York City. Her work is included in the public collections of the...Read more -
The Clock Unlocked
Ellen Berkenblit September 12 - October 20, 2018When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us...Read more
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Ellen Berkenblit
May 25 - July 6, 2017In her sixth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York based painter Ellen Berkenblit presents a new body of work that connects her love of textiles to her painting...Read more -
New Paintings
Ellen Berkenblit May 28 - July 2, 2015Berkenblit's practice hovers between representation and abstraction, often presenting the female figure experiencing a realm of imaginative explosion and escape. Through her unpredictable application of paint, she presents private and...Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
March 1 - 31, 2012February 15, 2012—In her fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, New York-based painter Ellen Berkenblit presents a new body of intensely colored, energetic, figurative paintings. Layers of rawness and...Read more -
Friends & Family
June 26 - August 8, 2008June 14, 2008—The premise for “Friends and Family” is simple: each gallery artist was asked to submit one work of art along with a work by an artist friend and...Read more
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Ellen Berkenblit
January 17 - February 28, 2008December 20, 2007—New York-artist Ellen Berkenblit’s third one-person exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery presents a body of black-and-white paintings with the recurring image of a girl in profile. Berkenblit uses...Read more -
Robert Altman: I Am What I Am
Organized by Ellen Berkenblit May 18 - June 24, 2006I Am What I Am brings together previously unseen materials (still photographs, snapshots and other ephemera) culled from American film director Robert Altman’s personal archive by painter Ellen Berkenblit. The...Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
March 3 - April 2, 2005New York artist Ellen Berkenblit will show a group of new paintings in the back room gallery. All works originated during her 2004 Art Production Fund residency at Claude Monet’s...Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit
September 6 - October 4, 2003For her second solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, American artist Ellen Berkenblit will present a series of paintings and recent drawings that incorporate the use of perforated and expanded...Read more
Publications
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Ellen Berkenblit
Lines Special Edition [4/20] 2018Hardcover , 75 pagesRead more
Publisher: Victoria Press,
ISBN: 9780692089118
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Ellen Berkenblit
Lines 2018Hardcover , 75 pagesRead more
Publisher: Victoria Press, London
ISBN: 9780692089118
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Ellen Berkenblit
Ellen Berkenblit 2008Softcover, 40 pagesRead more
Publisher: Anton Kern Gallery, New York, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780979032059
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Ellen Berkenblit
Ellen Berkenblit: Drawings 1999Softcover, 28 pagesRead more
Publisher: Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
News
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Ellen Berkenblit, Brian Calvin, Marcus Jahmal, and Chris Martin in Nothing Is: Sun Ra and Others’ Covers
November 1, 2024'Starting in the 1960s, extraterrestrial-American musician, composer, and thinker Sun Ra and his band the Arkestra began decorating their own record covers. Partially as an...Read more -
Ellen Berkenblit at The Mill ADK
October 17, 2024'Ellen Berkenblit’s extensive body of work employs the simplified language of cartooning to be our guide through the complexity of painting. Berkenblit’s lexicon of characters...Read more
Press
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Not to die in beauty
Brigitte Werneburg, taz, July 24, 2024 -
Editors’ picks: Eight shows to see this summer
The Editors, Art B, July 16, 2024 -
Ellen Berkenblit’s In Motion Expresses the Magic of Mark Making
Nancy Zastudil, Southwest Contemporary, October 9, 2023 -
Ellen Berkenblit
Golden, Dan, Curator, May 18, 2023
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Ellen Berkenblit
Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, May 5, 2023 -
Artforum Artguide
The Editors, Artforum, April 21, 2023 -
ArtSeen: Tales of Manhattan
Johnathan Goodman, The Brooklyn Rail, August 19, 2021 -
Ellen Berkenblit's Sistergarden
Rebecca Storm, Editorial Magazine, March 25, 2020
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Sistergarden: Ellen Berkenblit’s Faces Fill Anton Kern Gallery with Palpable Energy
Juxtapoz, February 20, 2020 -
Practical Magic
Kristin Farr, Juxtapoz, June 5, 2019 -
Samaritans
Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, January 25, 2019 -
Ellen Berkenblit’s Outcasts, Animals, and Body Parts
John Yau, Hyperallergic, September 22, 2018
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Ellen Berkenblit: The Clock Unlocked at Anton Kern Through October 20th, 2018
Art Observed, September 19, 2018 -
ELLEN BERKENBLIT with Alex A. Jones
The Brooklyn Rail, September 4, 2018 -
Human Nature: Dan Nadel on the art of Ellen Berkenblit, Carroll Dunham, Sarah Peters, and Kyle Staver
Dan Nadel, Artforum, September 1, 2018 -
From Joan Mitchell’s Early Works to Daniel Arsham’s Dystopian Future: 45 Can’t-Miss Gallery Shows in New York This Septe
Sarah Cascone, Artnet, August 30, 2018
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An Artist's Film Not Like the Others
John Yau, Hyperallergic, June 3, 2018 -
Le tigre et la sorciere
Claude Laurent, Arts Libre, May 30, 2018 -
Tigers, Horses, and Stripes
Dan Nadel, The New York Review of Books, June 30, 2017 -
Goings on About Town: Ellen Berkenblit
The New Yorker, June 12, 2017
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Will Someone Please Give Ellen Berkenblit a Museum Show Already?
John Yau, Hyperallergic, June 10, 2017 -
Eavesdropping on the Whole World: Ellen Berkenblit
Harry Darrell, Mousse Magazine, June 1, 2017 -
Critics' Picks New York: Ellen Berkenblit
Nicole Kaack, Artforum, June 1, 2017 -
Ellen Berkenblit Solo Exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Purple, May 30, 2017
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This Week's Best New Art: Ellen Berkenblit
Time Out New York, May 22, 2017 -
Wagner Collection at the Whitney, 25 Years of Astute Buying
Roberta Smith, The New York Times, December 3, 2015 -
Awards from American Academy of Arts and Letters
Sarah Cascone, Art in America, March 21, 2013 -
Review: Ellen Berkenblit
Agnieszka Gratza, Frieze, June 1, 2012
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Review: Ellen Berkenblit
Nana Asfour, Art in America: International Review, May 1, 2012 -
Artifacts | Bat-Sugar Bombshell
Lina Yablonsky, T Magazine, March 29, 2012 -
Girls Night Out: Ellen Berkenblit at Anton Kern
Kelsey Sundberg, Bullett, March 27, 2012 -
Doing the Loop-de-loop: The Latest Surprise from Ellen Berkenblit
Deven Golden, Artcritical, March 26, 2012
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Review: Ellen Berkenblit
Jennifer Coates, TimeOut New York, March 22, 2012 -
Goings on About Town | Ellen Berkenblit
The New Yorker, March 2, 2012 -
Wake Up Call
Nancy Princenthal, Art In America, November 1, 2011 -
NY Studio Visit: Ellen Berkenblit
Carole Nicksin, Artillery, September 1, 2010
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Spots, Smudges, and Glitter
Barry Schwabsky, The Nation, April 28, 2008 -
Sugar Shock
Adrian Dannatt, Artnet, February 27, 2008 -
Critics' Pick: Ellen Berkenblit
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, February 1, 2008 -
Ellen Berkenblit
Amy Sillman, BOMB Magazine, April 1, 2007