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Sojourner, 2023, felt, wood, clay, 9’H x 40″W x 15″D A child’s hooded jacket hangs on a branch.  From both sleeves a cascade of maps of all the continents of the world, fall, and then go up to the opposite end of the branch.  A bird perches on the bran …

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“Field Notes” Ken Buhler and Ellen Driscoll January 18-February 11, 2023 University Art Gallery Central Michigan University

“Splinter” An Exhibition of Self Portraits by Ellen Driscoll Nov. 4–Nov. 27 Opening November 4, 5–8 pm Kingston Gallery 450 Harrison Ave #43 Boston, MA 02118 kingstongallery.com Link to project page

October 7 @ EST 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm Artist in Residence | Gallery Talk with Ellen Driscoll Writers and Books Rochester,  New York www.wab.org Behind the Curtain: View Eyechart, then join us for artist Ellen Driscoll’s talk on her creative process. Admiss …

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Sept 9-November 5, 2022 Writers and Books Rochester,  New York www.wab.org Sept. 9: Opening event 5-7 Oct.7: Conversation–Ellen Driscoll 6:30-7:15 Nov. 4: Poetry Reading—Kathy Engel 6:30-7:15 Press Release Eyechart  

August 13-September 25 CREATE, Catskill NY

July 30-September 4 Fridman Gallery Beacon, NY Press Release  

“Eyechart” banners Collaboration Ellen Driscoll and Kathy Engel May 28-December 31, 2022 Press Release

100 WORKS ON PAPER VIRTUAL BENEFIT October 16 & 17 You can support our vital organization while growing your art collection or giving the gift of art to a loved one! Here’s how it works TICKETS tickets are limited! PREVIEW ARTWORKS: Benefit Artwork …

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Please join us 12-6 October 16  and 17 232 Third Street for a curated exhibition as part of Gowanus Open Studios

This is an exciting new initiative that I am part of, with a dynamic group of artists. https://www.vivavirtualartists.org/

Wake examines the power of water to sustain life and to destroy it and also looks at what is left in its wake. The paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations in this exhibition explore the sheer force of water in the form of waves, storms, and energy, as well as the aftermath of water once it retreats: parched earth, invasive plants, dwindling animal populations, human illness. The visual dialogue between these six artists invites reflection and discussion on the impact of global climate change

Thicket May 5— June 23 Opening Reception Friday, May 5th 6—9pm Wed-Fri 1-5pm Sat-Sun 11am- 4 pm or by appointment 508-843-2184 Rafius Fane Gallery The Rafius Fane Gallery is pleased to present “Thicket”, a solo exhibition of recent sculptures and drawings by Ellen Driscoll. In her sculptures, Driscoll combines cloth that typically covers the body as clothing or blanket with larger abstractions of maps and diagrams, or the wilds of tangled forest branches . The scale of the singular and intimate body is set against the much larger scale of cities,

The Olana Partnership and Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7 FM are pleased to present Groundswell, a new iteration of their award winning event. From 2-6, visitors will explore contemporary works sited throughout the grounds of Frederic Church’s historic Hudson Valley estate, Olana. “Telescopic Tea Table” created with Daniela Gomez, is a mirrored table upon whose surface float countries where Church painted during his international travels, and mirrored tea pots which directly mirror sculpted ornamentation on the historic house on the hill above.

This piece was created for the Bard College Studio Arts Faculty exhibition in the fall of 2013.

This series of drawings were generated while in Rome from January 2013 – June 2013, while serving as the Chief Critic for the European Honors program of RISD.

In this two person exhibition with Ellen Driscoll and Robert Oxnam, we spent several days creating a matrix that would make a single work out of our two disparate bodies of work on a 25 foot wall at the Brooklyn Zen Center.

 Fastforwardfossil; Part 1, 2009 #2 harvested plastic, 18′ L x 4’H x 8’W

Fastforwardfossil Drawings, 2007-8 exhibited with Fastforwardfossil; Part 1 at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 2009

Hunter-Gatherer, 2007 #2 harvested plastic, 21’L x 18’W x 24″H This installation is a 21′ landscape made from plastic milk and water cartons scavenged from the streets of Brooklyn and the Town Recycling Center of Peterborough, NH. The salvaged material is reconfigured into a micro-world of satellite towers, abandoned oil rigs, highways and other structures.

Phantom Limb, 2007 #2 harvested plastic, 14’L x 7’H x 8’W

Drawings, 2007-8

Revenant, 2007 #2 harvested plastic, 18’L x 7’H x 3’W Revenant was created for a two person exhibition with Zero Higashida, for the Bank of Japan in Hiroshima, one of the few buildings to survive the atomic blast. The 18 foot bridge has a dredging crane on one end, which is attached by looping chains to a McMansion on the other end.  A slum colony with a satellite dish clings to the underside of the McMansion. The bridge structure is based on the Forth Bridge, an innovation in engineering at the dawn of the 20th century.

Lumina, 2006 A Public Electronic Animation sign, MassArt, Boston, Mass.

Veil, 2005 For the Tashkent Biennale, a series of works made with newspaper, cloth, beads. The series of works entitled “Veil” were created with pages of the The New York Times layered with translucent silk organza, permeated by stains that resemble Rorschach ink blots or maps. Beads sewn into the surface create a third layer of plan views of historic labyrinths. These works traveled to the Tashkent Biennale, Uzbekistan, curated by Andre Nakov.

Parallax, 2004 Video collaboration with Jane D. Marsching A collaboration between Ellen Driscoll and Jane D. Marsching. Clementine, an intrepid marionette, explores landscapes both historical and contemporary against a poetic backdrop of sound and text that describe an interior landscape of love lost. Her voyages take her down a mine shaft, into a domestic interior, and up and out to the surface of the moon and beyond to a vista of nebulae where she encounters dense black holes or voids, to which she is irresistibly drawn.

Paper Architecture, 2002

Betwixt, 2004 Installation at the Motoazabu Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, curated by Zero Higashida, 14’L x 7’W x 8’H, newspaper, cloth.

Ghost, 2003 Cloth, wood, 18’L x 36’H x 4’W, Smack Mellon, New York

Drawings 2003-5

Drawings 2001-3

Turnscope, 2001 Collaboration with Nick Tobier for the Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA.

Meanderlink, 2000 An airplane banner celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted’s legacy in Boston

Circuitstream, 2000 Commissioned by the Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina This sandblasted glass wall is sited in the digital headquarters of the Bank of America. Silhouetted portraits from American coins are connected by a network to an early computer circuitboard from the 1950’s. Commissioned by the Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Mum’s the Word, 1997-8 Temporary public work for City of Boston, collaboration with Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Aphasia Community Group, Boston, MA, Fund for the Arts commission Cambridge-based artist Ellen Driscoll began this project, called “Mu …

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From There On Up to Here and Now, 1995 Commissioned by the High Museum of Art. Exhibited at the Atlanta Central Library, the Smithsonian Museum, and the University of Virginia.  From There on Up to Here and Now was a collaborative installation that Dr …

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Passionate Attitudes, 1995 Threadwaxing Space, New York

Migration, 1992 Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati,OH.