Amy Ellingson’s latest print is “Variation (afterimage)“. The artists describes this work as follows:
“Variation (afterimage) continues my long-standing interest in repetition, variation, and the migration of forms across different bodies of work. Derived from the same vocabulary that produced my earlier prints with Shark’s Ink., the image has been reduced to a residual structure that appears simultaneously present and dissolving. The title refers to the persistence of visual information after the original stimulus has vanished, placing the work between perception and memory.
Originating in a digital process of copying, layering, permutation, and translation, the print combines crisp pixelated forms with the softness of the paper’s torn edges. Layers of vermillion, pink, and violet create moments of transparency and visual vibration. The work explores how patterns persist, mutate, and accrue meaning through repetition over time.”
Amy Ellingson’s work has been exhibited nationally and in Tokyo, Japan. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and the Artadia Grant to Individual Artists and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Recent group exhibitions include Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University. Ellingson’s work is held in various public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the US Embassies in Algeria and Tunisia. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and an M.F.A. from CalArts. Her public commission, Untitled (Large Variation), is an 1100 square foot ceramic mosaic mural. It is a permanent installation on view in Terminal 3 at the San Francisco International Airport. Ellingson was Associate Professor of Art at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2000 to 2011 and has served on the Board of Directors at Root Division, a San Francisco nonprofit arts organization, since 2011. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Selected Collections:
The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Paul Allen Collection, Seattle, WA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
City and County of San Francisco, CA
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
United Sates Embassy, Algeria
United States Embassy, Tunisia
