Ellie Works (b. 2003, Seattle, Washington) lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2025 she recieved her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Painting and Printmaking.
In my recent paintings, I integrate found street debris, advertisements, images and a variety of paint through processes of chance, improvisation, mediation and doubt. As I convene, assess and take apart materials and compositions, I negotiate my own sense of dissolution and enchantment with the physical world and of being alive. The history contained in a material provides me with something to push up against and build atop, similar to how the historical site of painting presents limits and traditions to embrace or deny. Painting to me means contending with the visual, material codes and relationships that structure space. Ideas and agendas shapeshift through context to one another in my paintings as I connect my own subjectivity with historical and material narratives. I search for meaning within the debris. The ground is not neutral.
For any inquiries or questions please email ellievworks@gmail.com
In my recent paintings, I integrate found street debris, advertisements, images and a variety of paint through processes of chance, improvisation, mediation and doubt. As I convene, assess and take apart materials and compositions, I negotiate my own sense of dissolution and enchantment with the physical world and of being alive. The history contained in a material provides me with something to push up against and build atop, similar to how the historical site of painting presents limits and traditions to embrace or deny. Painting to me means contending with the visual, material codes and relationships that structure space. Ideas and agendas shapeshift through context to one another in my paintings as I connect my own subjectivity with historical and material narratives. I search for meaning within the debris. The ground is not neutral.
For any inquiries or questions please email ellievworks@gmail.com