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Tantra
Ephemera
Salisbury and Gates Mills Summer
Dark Waters
Emergence
Prakriti
Vrikriti
Assemblage

 

It is as if the artist had penetrated the skin of modernist flatness, the omnivorous gallery wall and extracted it's guts: the spaces, gestures, forms and textures of painting. At the same time she beats her assemblages back to the wall by coating them in layers of paint and decorative imagery. It is the raw state of her materials, imagery and painting style that keep these works suspended between deep space and the floor.

- Jeff Kelley,
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, "A San Diego Exhibition"
Assemblage
Assemblage 1986 Oil   Mixed Media on Canvas, 84" x 96", 1986

Assemblage
Assemblage 1987 Oil   Mixed Media on Canvas, 84" x 96", 1987

 

images copyright Ellen Salk 2009