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Ellen Berkenblit

Past exhibition
September 6 - October 4, 2003
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Overview
Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003 Ink, graphite, watercolor on paper 12 x 9 inches
Ellen Berkenblit
Untitled, 2003
Ink, graphite, watercolor on paper
12 x 9 inches

For 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 metal. Painted separately and fused together, the metal assemblage forms a graffiti landscape that is both uniform and trippy.

 

For this exhibition Ellen Berkenblit switches the underlying support and transports her imaginary world from the canvas onto a lattice metal surface. Using the grid as a framework for her compositions, she manipulates the structure through color, form and repetition of imagery. Scenarios of a distant world drift across the construction in a cursive route of visual thought.

 

Animals and figures punctuate the drawings and paintings in a recognizable style that hovers between representation and abstraction. The artist depicts a private world where real and imagined experience exists side by side. The paintwork itself, sometimes reckless, sometimes gentle, is as important to understanding the thoughts as the narratives depicted. Berkenblit’s patchwork creation resembles the story of Frankenstein in that it composites the artist’s surroundings; the resultant climax is the creation of its own development.

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List of Works
Installation Views
  • Installation view of Ellen Berkenblit's seocnd show at Anton Kern Gallery, featuring a series of paintings, drawings, and metal assemblages.
  • Installation view of Ellen Berkenblit's seocnd show at Anton Kern Gallery, featuring a series of paintings, drawings, and metal assemblages. Drawings featured.
Works
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2002
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2002
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2002
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2002
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2002
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2002
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2002
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2002
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2002
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2002
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2002
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2002
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2002
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2002
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2002
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2002
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Untitled, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Untitled, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Swampling, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Swampling, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Traffic, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Traffic, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit A Day on Blueberry Street, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    A Day on Blueberry Street, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Rat's Milk Blues, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Rat's Milk Blues, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Lionel's Happy Ending, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Lionel's Happy Ending, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit The Clouds over Spider Boulevard, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    The Clouds over Spider Boulevard, 2003
  • Ellen Berkenblit Sir Peacock and the Falcon, 2003
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Sir Peacock and the Falcon, 2003
Press
  • Review: Ellen Berkenblit

    Adam Mendelsohn, Frieze, November 1, 2003
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  • Art in Review: Ellen Berkenblit

    Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, September 12, 2003
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