ELLEN GORDON
Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT based artist. She holds an undergraduate degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from Baruch College, NYC. She has exhibited regionally, is the recipient of many awards and grants. Additionally, Ms. Gordon has taught art programs for art lovers of all ages. In 2022 she became the curator for the City of Stamford’s Mayor’s Art Gallery in Government Center.
The colors and patterns in Ellen Gordon's artwork are roller coaster rhythms of fences, grids, and fractured geometries– a kind of mapping. She guides us along a journey of the personal narrative through landscaped layers of abstraction and portraiture. Playful and speculative, the rhythms remain determinedly open-ended and essentially borderless. An un-plotted story with unbounded possibilities. Over the past two decades, Gordon’s work has evolved through many phases, but her main body of work centers on figurative collages- intimate yet colorful portrayals of a woman in her own thoughts, providing the viewer a window into honest moments with a series of striking and bold women. Her most recent work has been a transition into the abstract patterns, experimenting with geometric shapes and inverted forms in color palettes evoking various states of mind.
