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Artist Statement:
About My Sisters 1996-2006
I began photographing my
sisters in 1993 during my
first photography class in
high school. It wasn’t until I
was a junior at Mass Art that
I began to take it seriously
as a project and see its
larger potential.
I began trying to compare my
sister’s very different lives
to my own. We have different
mothers; theirs being Jane my
stepmother, but we share the
same father I was fascinated
by how I thought they were
being socialized into Girls
with a capital G. I loved when
I could catch them staring in
the mirror pretending to have
breasts, playing with their
toy ironing boards and dolls
or playing dress-up in a
princess dress. At the same
time, I started photographing
their friends. What I
discovered defeated my notion
that there was an easy
definition to what a girl is.
At this time Abby was seven
and Emily was eight. Emily was
adopted when I was 12 because
my stepmother and father
couldn’t conceive. As soon as
they adopted her, Jane became
pregnant with Abby. They are
nine months apart and where
always in the same grade. I
was absolutely...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibition Record
Solo Exhibitions
2011- BAG, Glasgow Goodkind
Gallery, Glasgow, MT
2010- BAG, Independent Media
Center, Urbana, IL
2009- A Chronicle of Lovers
Center for the Book Arts, New
York, NY
Korean Notebooks
Orange Coast College
Photography Gallery, Costa
Mesa, CA 2009-
2008- Images from Ciudad
Colon, Galeria Nacional, San
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
Dear Friends,
In my last email I announced
my partnership with United
States Artists to raise funds
for the BAG project to travel
to Montana. I am writing to
you again with a plea for
action. There are only
30-something days left for me
to reach my funding goal ...
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Ellie Brown Biography:
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Female
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| Education |
Post Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
yoga, film, travel, vegetarian, photography obviously |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Color
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Post-Modernism - (1975 - )
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Sophie Calle
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| Your Personal Biography |
Ellie Brown is a native of Boston, MA where she attended Massachusetts College of Art. She received her B.F.A. in photography in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Photography from San Jose State University in 2002. Ellie has received numerous awards including: a 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a Leeway Foundation grant, first prize from the Fraser Gallery's International photo competition, a featured artist from women in photography international, the Calumet Award from the Print Center’s 2006 and 2008 International Photography Competition. In addition, Ellie has attended artist in residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 2006, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL with acclaimed photographer Graciela Iturbide in 2002 a 2007 residency in Costa Rica at the David and Julia White Artist Colony. Both her bookwork and photographs are exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including Mexico, Romania, Greece, a solo exhibition at the International Museum of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK. She had 2008 solo exhibition at the Galeria Nacional in Costa Rica. Ellie was a visiting professor position of Digital Information at the University of Ulsan, South Korea in December 2008. She currently is the `president of POP!sicle Artist Marketing and teaches at University of the Arts.
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