RECENT EXHIBITIONS:
"Distant Mirrors" A site-specific installation by Ellen Driscoll created with Rose Heydt, Dianne Hebbert, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, and Megan McLaughlin
Providence River, Rhode Island -
on view through October 24, 2011
"Art Encounters Preservation"
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
July 30-October 15, 2011
"Spill: Drawings and Books"
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York
June 28-September 18, 2011
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Ellen Driscoll' work encompasses sculpture, drawing, and public installation. Recent large scale installations include FastForwardFossil #1 and #2 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, and Smack Mellon, and "Revenant" and "Phantom Limb" for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan. Earlier works include "The Loophole of Retreat" at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, "As Above, So Below" for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), "Catching the Drift", a restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and "Wingspun" for the International Arrivals corridor at Raleigh Durham airport. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art. Ellen Driscoll is a Professor of Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design.
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