1. Ellen Driscoll was born on 1953 and is a New York-based American artist, whose practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, installation and public art.
11 Facts About Ellen Driscoll
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Ellen Driscoll is known for complex, interconnected works that explore social and geopolitical issues and events involving power, agency, transition and ecological imbalance through an inventive combination of materials, technologies, research and narrative.
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Ellen Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Anonymous Was a Woman, and National Endowment for the Arts, among others.
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Ellen Driscoll has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, New-York Historical Society, Boston Center for the Arts, Contemporary Arts Center, and Smack Mellon.
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Ellen Driscoll's work belongs to public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum.
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Ellen Driscoll was born in 1953 into a large Irish-Catholic family in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Ellen Driscoll frequently blackened or covered the sculptures with skins of lead and oxidized copper whose ornamental, handcrafted effect contrasted with their primal form.
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Ellen Driscoll used similar means in Migration and Passionate Attitudes.
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Ellen Driscoll has produced a number of permanent public artworks that engage the specific geography and history of their sites, while connecting to universal themes involving movement across time and place.
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Ellen Driscoll has received awards and grants from the LEF Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters and International Sculpture Center, and residencies from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell, Pilchuck Glass School, Rockefeller Foundation and Sirius Art Centre, among others.
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Ellen Driscoll's work belongs to the public collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Boston Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Fralin Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Hood Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rose Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum, among others.