Ellen ORSECK
Mixed Media & Sculpture
Assemblage objects emerged in my painting after I tentatively glued rubber gloves and coiled wire to a portrait of my ex-husband. The idea expanded when a gallery in Marfa sent me a bank bag to incorporate into my work. The goal was to examine the relationship between art and money. But something else happened for me; the spatial relationships clicked.
This relationship between what is flat, but painted to look real, and what is really a three-dimensional object, has become a fascination. And even more, I have begun experimenting with techno-trash, found and discarded objects of technology mixed with dolls parts. The result is a hybrid of man and machine.
bank bag, acrylic, oil, medium on cradled masonite 48 x 24 inches From the Collection of the Artist
cell phone, doll parts, wire, white house paint, laundry vent 16 x 20 inches
latex glove, wire, paper collage, acrylic paint on paper 30 x 22 inches
mannequin form, plug, wire, white house paint, adapters 15 x 4 x 3 inches From the Collection of Riaro Gomez
plug, wire, house paint, thread & baby pins, white house paint 12 x 5 x 5 inches
mannequin hand, wire, phone, mirror 12 x 6 x 6 inches From the Collection of Riaro Gomez
Bart Simpson Doll, white house paint, wire 10 x 6 x 4 inches
charcoal, acrylic, fabric, medium, kilz, and pillow case 26 x 18 inches