LOOK UP, NOT DOWN (2005)
A mosaic for the mezzanine of the Queens Plaza subway station in Long Island City, New York, that shows the view as it would be seen from above rather than below ground. Commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design. Look Up Not Down. Ellen Harvey, 2005. Glass mosaic on 6 walls, overall: 1,548′ […]
ROSE PAINTING (2005)
Two frames, one containing a watercolor painting of a rose and the other a video of the artist painting the same painting in her own blood. Rose Painting. 2005, Ellen Harvey, Digital video (color, silent, 30 min.), flat-screen monitor, oil paint on frames, watercolor on clay board, and wallpaper: monitor: 14 x 11″ x 4” […]
WALK-IN (2004)
A painted box for people to stand in. Walk-In, Ellen Harvey, 2004. Oil on plywood with gilded frame, 7′ 8″ x 52″ x 24″ (233.7 x 132 x 61 cm). Photography: Etienne Frossard.
FLAT SCULPTURE (2004)
A wall painting of the classical statue of the Sleeping Hermaphrodite Flat Sculpture, Ellen Harvey, 2003. Oil on wall with electrical outlet, 48″ x 8′ (122 cm x 2.44 m). Installation view, In Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, June 21–August 16, 2003. Photograph: Sculpture Center.
WALLPAPER FOR THE RICH (2003-5)
Paintings of wallpaper to be hung over wallpaper. Left to Right: Wallpaper for the Rich (Toile), Ellen Harvey, 2006. Wallpaper on wall and oil on panel, panel: 11 3/4 x 11 3/4” (29.8 x 29.8 cm); wallpaper dimensions variable. Wallpaper for the Rich (Bluebird), Ellen Harvey, 2003. Wallpaper and oil on panel, panel: 26 x 22″ […]
PAINTINGS OF PAINTINGS (2003)
Paintings of Paintings (Installation), Ellen Harvey, 2003. Wallpaper and 9 paintings, oil on wood panels. Dimensions vary. Photograph: Ellen Harvey Studio. Left to right; top to bottom: Paintings of Paintings (Amsterdam Street), Ellen Harvey, 2003. Oil on wood panel, 12 x 10 “ (30.5 x 25.4 cm).Paintings of Paintings (Berlin House), Ellen Harvey, 2003. Oil […]
TWINS (2001)
Two synchronized video projections: of the artist’s face while drawing a self-portrait and of the self-portrait being drawn. Twins, Ellen Harvey, 2001. Two digital videos (color, no sound, 30 min.), two hand-sanded Plexiglas panels, and metal poles, each panel: 16 x 12″ (40.6 x 30.5 cm). Edition: 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs. Installation view, I […]
100 FREE PORTRAITS (2001)
One hundred passersby at various sites in New York each received a fifteen-minute pencil portrait in exchange for filling out an evaluation of the finished drawing. The portraits and evaluations were scanned and the originals mailed to the participants. 100 Free Portraits, Ellen Harvey, 2001. Scanned drawings and evaluation forms, each: 11 x 8 1/2″ […]
I AM A BAD CAMERA (2001)
A video of a thirty-minute portrait drawing projected onto a pad of paper, with a continuous audio loop that reveals the subject’s response to the completed portrait. “Do you think it looks like you?” “I think it does look like me. I think it’s an interesting perspective on my face because it seems like my […]
NEW YORK BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT (1999-2001)
New York Beautification Project (installation at Turner Contemporary), Ellen Harvey, 1999-2001. 82 framed Giclee prints on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Ultrasmooth paper. Texts by Ellen Harvey, photographs of paintings by Ellen Harvey Studio / Jan Baracz. Unframed: each 11 x 14” (28 x 35.5 cm). Photo: Thierry Bal. The New York Beautification Project consisted of forty oval […]
ID CARD PROJECT (1998)
Painted copies of photographs from each of the artist’s identity cards, hung in ascending chronological order. ID Card Project, Ellen Harvey, 1998. Oil on wood panels, each: 7 x 5″ (17.8 x 12.7 cm). Photography: Etienne Frossard.
The Tourists: Ellen Harvey & JMW Turner
Curated by Fiona ParryTurner Contemporary, Margate, U.K.May 18 – September 2021 10 years after appearing in the gallery’s opening exhibition Revealed, artist Ellen Harvey returns to Turner Contemporary opening the anniversary programme with her first UK solo show The Tourists, an exhibition paired with works by JMW Turner. The Tourists explores themes of tourism and […]
Ellen Harvey: The Painting as Ornament, the Ornament as Painting
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USANovember 11, 2020 – February 20, 2021 Locks Gallery is pleased to present Ellen Harvey’s monumental Metal Painting along with recent related bodies of work that invert and re-contextualize the traditionally hierarchical relationship between the fine and decorative arts, between the celebrated artist and the artisan laboring in obscurity. Metal Painting (2015) […]
Ellen Harvey: Nostalgia
Danese / Corey , New YorkOctober 27 – December 31, 2017 If art is a mirror, it’s obviously a failed mirror. It cannot escape its own subjectivity. Perhaps as a result, I’m particularly interested in the idea of the mirror that lies—in the dark untruthful mirror that converts life into art. I’ve long been obsessed […]
Ellen Harvey: Ornaments and Other Refrigerator Magnets
Children’s Museum of the Arts, New YorkDecember 17, 2017 – April 29, 2018 What is an ornament and how is ornamentation different from art? Is the desire to ornament our surroundings and possessions an innate human trait? If so, why is children’s art generally representational rather than ornamental? What is the relationship between ornamentation and […]
From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art
Curated by Pierre-François Galpin and Lily SiegelThe Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Christian Boltanski, Nao Bustamante, Binh Danh, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Bernice Eisenstein, Eric Finzi, Nicholas Galanin, Guy Goldstein, Fotini Gouseti, Ellen Harvey, Aram Jibilian, Loli Kantor, Mike Kelley, Lisa Kokin, Ralph Lemon, Rä di Martino, Yong Soon Min, Fabio Morais, Elizabeth Moran, Vandy Rattana, Anri […]
Et in Arcadia Ego – Weltchaos und Idylle
Simone Demandt, Ellen Harvey, Olaf Holzapfel, Korpys/Löffler, Louise Lawler, Maix Mayer, Barbara Nicholls, Julian Rosefeldt, Corinna Schnitt, Ilka Sulten, Ana Torfs Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, GermanyJuly 10, 2015 – September 20, 2015 Contemporary Artists were invited to create new work on the theme of Et in Arcadia Ego. Ausgehend von der lateinischen Wendung „Et in […]
Ellen Harvey: Metal Painting
Curated by Judith F. DolkartBarnes Foundation, PhiladelphiaSeptember 19, 2015 – January 4, 2016 After visiting the Barnes Foundation for the first time in 2011, artist Ellen Harvey (b. 1967) found herself captivated by the wrought iron keyhole escutcheons, hasps, hinges, and latches that , showstopper paintings by the great modern masters: Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, […]
Ellen Harvey: The Unloved
Groeninge Museum, Bruges, BelgiumOctober 1, 2014 – May 20, 2015 There are stories we love and stories that we don’t. The unloved are always the most interesting. Ellen Harvey Ellen Harvey’s new commission for the Groeninge Museum juxtaposes Bruges’s fraught connection to the sea with an alternative view of the Museum’s collection. Harvey’s installation spans […]
Ellen Harvey: Arcade / Arcadia
The Clay Center, Charleston, West VirginiaAugust 15 – November 16, 2014 In ARCADE/ARCADIA Harvey joins elements of Joseph Mallord William Turner’s life as a painter and engraver with the history of Margate, the once fashionable seaside resort where he painted and lived for many years, to create a disorienting and seductive space that conflates Turner’s […]
Ellen Harvey: The Alien’s Guide to the Ruins of Washington, D.C
Curated by Sarah NewmanCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC.July 3 – October 6, 2013 Ellen Harvey’s new project is a glimpse into the world of the distant future. Human civilization having long-since come to an end, the earth is populated now only by ruins, ripe for archeological interpretation by visitors from another planet. Most immediately […]
Ellen Harvey: The Nudist Museum Gift Shop
Dodge Gallery, New YorkFebruary 23 — April 1, 2012 A museum is nothing without a gift shop. A museum without nudes is really no fun at all. This the best of all worlds: a museum attached to a gift shop with nothing but nudes. In her inaugural exhibition at DODGE gallery, Ellen Harvey offers several […]
Museum Show (part 1)
Curated by Nav HaqArnolfini, Bristol, UKSeptember 23 — November 18, 2011 Museum of Contemporary African Art (Meschac Gaba), La Boîte-en-Valise (Marcel Duchamp), Museo Aero Solar, Museum of Conceptual Art (Tom Marioni), La Galerie Légitime (Robert Filliou), Schubladenmuseum/Museum of Drawers (Herbert Distel),Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals (Bill Burns), Davis Lisboa Mini- Museum (Davis Lisboa), […]
Magical Consciousness
Curated by Runa Islam and ArnolfiniArnolfini, Bristol, U.K.11 May 11 — July 2, 2011 Helena Almeida, Rosa Barba, Uta Barth, Angela Bulloch, Mariana Castillo Deball, Ula Dajerling, Matias Faldbakken, Ellen Harvey, John Hilliard, William E. Jones, Onkar Kular & Noam Toran, David Maljkovic, Melik Ohanian, Trevor Paglen, Peter Peri, Rosângela Rennó and Mungo Thomson. Magical […]