This work is part of our exhibition One Thing Becomes Another at Perspectives Gallery at Whitney Center. The exhibition runs from January 19 - May 7, 2024. Works can be picked up after May 7 at the Ely Center, 51 Trumbull St, New Haven, CT. To arrange shipping, for an additional fee, please contact info@elycenter.org.

Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT-based award-winning mixed media artist.  The colors and patterns in her artwork are roller coaster rhythms of fences, grids, and fractured geometries – a kind of mapping. She guides us along a journey of the personal narrative through landscaped layers of abstraction and portraiture. Playful and speculative, the rhythms remain determinedly open-ended and essentially borderless. An un-plotted story with unbounded possibilities.  Over the past two decades, Gordon’s work has evolved through many phases, but her main body of work centers on figurative collages - intimate yet colorful portrayals of a woman in her own thoughts, providing the viewer a window into honest moments with a series of striking and bold women. Her most recent work has been a transition into the abstract patterns, experimenting with geometric shapes and inverted forms in color palettes evoking various states of mind.