left: Three Squahes, 2007, oil on panel, 18x18"
middle: Calabash Cluster, 2005, oil on
panel, 18x30"
right: Talk to Me, 2007, oil on panel,
36x48"
Often noted as a sensual painter, Ellen Berman fuses popular standards
of perfection with a visual clarity so striking to the viewer, that one
wonders if such objects can exist outside of an idealized imagination.
Branches from the noble Magnolia tree, as well as a variety of fruits
and vegetables and the bowls that contain them become both vehicles of
the artists masterful hand and forever escape their temporal nature.
Selected Exhibitions:
David Findlay Jr. Contemporary Fine Art, New York, NY
Beeville Museum of Art, Beeville, TX
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
Goethe Institute, Houston, TX
Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
Nelson-Akins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO