- Oil and Water2026
Oil and Water, 2026, 10’L x 9’W, HDPE Plastic, Photo Etienne Frossard. “Oil and Water” is a 10’W x 9’D x 30’H sculptural landscape fashioned from high density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic water bottles gathered from the waste stream. Maps of the …
- Bird’s Eye2026
Carrier, 2025, 44″ x 60″, ink and collage on paper, Photo Etienne Frossard “Bird’s Eye” includes 10 years of sculptures and drawings which trace our personal relationship to the ongoing crisis of climate change and global warming. Including intricate d …
- Carbon Dated2024
A mountain floats in the air. On its underside, upside down, is the skeleton of an oil refinery. Up above, a miniature of a large house is capsized..upside down. At the far end is a dumpster with a few construction materials emerging from it. While …
- Flood2024
A small chair seems to sink below the floor plane, engulfed by molecules—of water? of chemicals? At the far end of the sculpture, is the skeleton of the rooftop of a house, as if detached in a flood and now unmoored. Tiny ladders emerge from the …
- Portraits2024
Ellen Driscoll’s intimate and probing self-portraits create intricate matrices that interlace her inner life with maps, charts, and images of an outer world undergoing constant change. While recovering from a rare brain tumor that initially rendered he …
- Re-Rooted2024
Plants have been on the earth much longer than we have. As the magnitude of environmental challenges that we face globally becomes more urgent, my drawings focus close attention on the quiet work that some plants do to repair toxins, in a process known …
- Mend2023
Mend These drawings emerged from my sense of interconnectedness between my own individual recovery from a serious medical crisis and the larger environmental crisis brought on by global warming. My own slow healing finds resonance and hope in the work …
- Site Woven2022
Commissioned by the General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program Fabricated by Mosaika Hand-glazed ceramic and Byzantine glass smalti Location: Charles R. Jonas Federal Courthouse, Charlotte, NC Ellen Driscoll created Site Woven, a serie …
- Botany and Landscape2017
Slipstream In Ellen Driscoll’s recent work, plants are drawn into allegorical tableaux that speak to environmental change and adaptation. Some of the plants in her herbarium are used for remediation of toxins in soil, such as the sunflower which is use …
- Bower for Artpark2016
“Bower” is commissioned for Art Park by City as Living Laboratory, a non profit created by Mary Miss.
- CartOURgraphy2016
A mosaic commission by Public Art for Public Schools for the Middle College High School and the International High School in Long Island City is being installed in August. Mosaic fabrication by Mosaika. A series of 6 classroom workshops on mapping and geography were held in spring of 2016.
- Family Blanket2015
The wind currents over the Atlantic Ocean are burned into my grandmother’s blanket,a blanket which has endured decades of small repairs as it got passed down through several generations. The edges of the blanket are cut away in a drawing of continental boundaries.
- Night to Day Here and Away2014
“Night to Day, Here and Away” fabricated by Mosaika, and Red Linen Design for Sarasota National Cemetery, funded by the Patterson Foundation for the Veteran’s Administration. The 50’ x 3′ mosaic on the front of the stage depicts a fictional landscape of Earth, Air, and Water in which all five branches of the military service carry out their work. The landscape goes from night to day to night over the span of the 50’ length. Vast differences of time and geography are a part of many military family’s lives.
- Wraith2012
The Vertical Gallery at the Esther Massry Gallery at the College of St. Rose features a site-specific sculpture entitled “Wraith” created for this beautiful 27′ high atrium. “Wraith” is a translucent mountain hovering just above visitor’s heads. Clinging to it’s underside, like barnacles on a rock, is an upside-down, contemporary American landscape, in miniature, with an oil refinery, abandoned houses, mountains and bare trees.
- Distant Mirrors2011
Distant Mirrors is a floating archipelago of forms floating in the Providence River, made with plastic bottles donated by the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation. This project was created with Rose Heydt, Dianne Hebbert, Megan McLaughlin, and Ponnapa Prakkamakul. Funded by the Robert and Margaret McColl Johnson fellowship of the Rhode Island Foundaton, and created with thanks to the Roger Williams National Memorial, Artists in Context, and Clay Rockefeller. www.distantmirrors.net
- Filament/Firmament2009
Filament/Firmament, 2010 Commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council for the Cambridge Public Library Selected by Fred Wilson for the Public Art Network’s Year in Review, Best Public Projects of 2010
- Fastforwardfossil;Part2, Drawings2009
Fastforwardfossil; Part 2, Drawings, 2009 exhibited at Smack Mellon, 2009 These drawings are based on a close study of the inner workings of Ireland’s only oil refinery in Whitegate, which I had access to in August 2009 through the Sirius Art Centre residency. By using shifts of scale between the macro and the micro, they depict a dystopic future based on rampant oil consumption. The worlds in the drawings are drained of color, but filled with the flux and spillage of a potentially chaotic future.
- Fastforwardfossil; Part22009
Fastforwardfossil; Part 2, 2009 #2 harvested plastic, 30’L x 7’H x 14’W
- Pro Patria Mori2006
Pro Patria Mori, 2006 Security Gates for the Liberty Memorial and Museum, Kansas City, Missouri Selected by Public Art Network Year in Review as one of the best public art projects of 2006
- Aqueous Humour2004
Aqueous Humour, 2004 South Boston Maritime Park, Commissioned by the MassPort, Boston, MA.
- Catching the Drift2003
Catching the Drift, 2003 A Women’s Restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art
- As Above So Below1997
As Above, So Below, 1998 A suite of glass and mosaic works for Grand Central Terminal, New York Link here to interactive map
- The Loophole of Retreat1991
The Loophole of Retreat, 1991 Commissioned by the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris
