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List of artists

(alphabetized by first name)

Carol Erickson
Carol Es
Cheryl Bailey/Deborah Henson
Connie Norman
Danielle Feliciano
E. Brooke Lanier
Elizabeth McKee
Ellen Wiener
Friedrich Kerksieck
Heidi Zednik
Jan Owen
Jennifer Hines
Justin Quinn
Kristen Catlett
Mamiko Ikeda
Marí Emily Bohley
Marina Soria
Stephen Sidelinger
Sun Young Kang
Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
Turner Hilliker

 

 

 

Ellen Wiener

Southold, New York

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Even The Rain

gouache, casein, linoleum relief prints, etching transfers, oil, pencil

6 x 4 closed, 51/2 x 120 open

edition of 4

© 2009-2010 - $500

This is an homage to one of my favorite poems by Agha Shahid Ali. He wrote it as an homage to one of his favorite poets, e.e. cummings, taking his title from cumming’s poem, somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond. A ghazal is an Arabic lyric form where each couplet ends with the same echoing phrase and one’s own most intimate name must be included in the text. I used my own handwriting rather than a font to keep the words close to myself.

 

My interest in the accordion format lies in its ability to reveal the way the mind forms meaning from layered images. Unfolding and refolding sections of the panels provides an unspoken connection with past and future scenes while the present always hovers as the viewers own invention.

Ellen Wiener is a painter/printmaker. Her paintings and illuminated alphabet have been exhibited
nationwide at galleries, universities and libraries. Her work has been the subject of a volume of poems, Of Hours, by Sharon Dolin. It has appeared on book and magazine covers and has been reviewed in numerous national newspapers and art magazines.