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Sistergarden: Ellen Berkenblit

Past exhibition
February 20 - March 28, 2020
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Ellen Berkenblit The Missing Peacock Feather, 2019 Oil on linen 93 x 76 inches (236.2 x 193 cm)
Ellen Berkenblit
The Missing Peacock Feather, 2019
Oil on linen
93 x 76 inches
(236.2 x 193 cm)

Ellen 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 velvety abyss with unbridled intensity and a noticeable shift in palette. The artist’s signature electric colors now merge with earth tones and twilight blues. This otherworldly color language, coupled with formal choices in cropping, creates a subplot of intrigue. Berkenblit’s compositions intentionally exclude narrative attributes, allowing the viewer to focus on the emotional qualities of paint application, brushstroke, and shape.

 

Ellen Berkenblit (born 1958 in Paterson, NJ) is an American painter who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 1980. Her work is included in the public collections of the Aspen Art Museum, CO; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

 

In 2019 Berkenblit was commissioned to create a site specific mural Leopard’s Lane for the MCA Chicago’s Atrium Project. In 2018 The Drawing Center commissioned the artist to create her first experimental film Lines Roar. Recent group exhibitions include All Of Them Witches organized by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons, Deitch Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Downtown Painting Presented by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, New York, NY; True Blue Mirror: Ellen Berkenblit and Sarah Braman, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; ELECTIVE AFFINITIES, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Austria (2018); Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, Hall Art Collection, Reading, VT; and MCA DNA: Riot Grrrls at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (all 2017).

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List of Works
Installation Views
  • Installation view's of Ellen Berkenblit's 'Sister Garden', a solo exhibition of paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces.
  • Installation view's of Ellen Berkenblit's 'Sister Garden', a solo exhibition of paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Three works shown here.
  • Installation view's of Ellen Berkenblit's 'Sister Garden', a solo exhibition of paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. One face can be seen here.
  • Installation view's of Ellen Berkenblit's 'Sister Garden', a solo exhibition of paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Multiple works shown here.
  • Installation view's of Ellen Berkenblit's 'Sister Garden', a solo exhibition of paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Six works from the main room presented here.
  • Installation view's of Ellen Berkenblit's 'Sister Garden', a solo exhibition of paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Two additional faces shown.
  • Installation view's of Ellen Berkenblit's 'Sister Garden', a solo exhibition of paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Image centered on the Missing Peacock Feather. Two paintings frame the larger piece.
  • Installation view's of Ellen Berkenblit's 'Sister Garden', a solo exhibition of paintings that form a dizzying daisy-chain of faces. Two more of Berkenblit's mesmerizing faces.
Works
  • Ellen Berkenblit The Missing Peacock Feather, 2019
    Ellen Berkenblit
    The Missing Peacock Feather, 2019
  • Ellen Berkenblit Little Blue, 2019
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Little Blue, 2019
  • Ellen Berkenblit Gloves To Love, 2020
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Gloves To Love, 2020
  • Ellen Berkenblit Vert, 2019
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Vert, 2019
  • Ellen Berkenblit Plastic Fantastic, 2019
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Plastic Fantastic, 2019
  • Ellen Berkenblit View Through, 2019
    Ellen Berkenblit
    View Through, 2019
  • Ellen Berkenblit The Room, 2019
    Ellen Berkenblit
    The Room, 2019
  • Ellen Berkenblit Apple Green, 2019
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Apple Green, 2019
  • Ellen Berkenblit Tuesday, 2019
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Tuesday, 2019
  • Ellen Berkenblit Tiger Tails, 2020
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Tiger Tails, 2020
  • Ellen Berkenblit Patchouli Magoo, 2020
    Ellen Berkenblit
    Patchouli Magoo, 2020
Press
  • Ellen Berkenblit's Sistergarden

    Rebecca Storm, Editorial Magazine, March 25, 2020
  • Sistergarden: Ellen Berkenblit’s Faces Fill Anton Kern Gallery with Palpable Energy

    Juxtapoz, February 20, 2020
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