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solo exhibitions and artist's talks

2017 Reflections From the Beginning, Jones Gallery, Duchesne, Houston

2015 Weather and Water, Nos Caves Vin, Houston

2015 White on Black & Black on White Demo, Watercolor Art Society, Houston

2015 Artist Talk, Liquified, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston

2014 Liquified, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston

2013 Visual Arts Alliance, Artist's Talk, Winter Street Studios, Houston
2013 Looking at Art, Artist's Talk, Winter Street Studios, Houston
2010 Submerged, Texas Collaborative Projects, Houston. Curators: Dan Allison and Kelly Moran

2007 Storms, Sumos and Sweets, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Downtown. Curator: Mark Cervenka

2007 Made in Texas, Bering and James Gallery, Houston. Curator: Austin James
2004 About Face: Exploring Human Expression, Montgomery College, The Woodlands, Texas.

Curator: Robbie Woods

two-person exhibitions

2014 Earth Matters, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston

2003 Reflections of Hotel Life, Omni Hotel, Houston

group exhibitions

2024 Redbud Art Center, Juried Exhibition. Curator: Tanja Peterson

2024 Jung Center of Houston, Curator: Kerry Inman

2023 Visual Arts Alliance, Juried Show, Sabine Studios. Juror: Heidi Vaughan

2023 Soot to Soul, Hardy Nance Studio

2022 (w)Hole: Grief, Apology, Healing, The Jung Center, Houston

2022 25th Anniversary Show, Myrtle Beach Art Museum, SC

2020 The Power of She: A Permanent Collection Exhibition, Myrtle Beach Art Museum, SC

2019 Illusions, Caroline Garcia Gallery, Houston

2018 Collaborations, Sawyer Yards, Houston

2018 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York

2018 Dangerous Professors, Flatlands Gallery, Houston

2017 The Art of Education: Instructor's Show, Rice University Glasscock School

2017 The Flower & Garden Show, Mother Dog Studios, Houston

2015 Art on the Avenue, Sawyer Yards, Houston

2015 Abstracting the Round, Carolyn Garcia Gallery, Houston

2014 Creation or Evolution: The Artists’ Journey, Carolyn Garcia Gallery, Houston

2014 Woodland’s Gala Trust, The Woodland’s Texas
2013 Caution: Live Snakes, Mother Dog Studios, Houston. Curator: John Runnels

2013 Bird Brained, Mother Dog Studios, Houston. Curator: John Runnels

2013 Haunted, Spring Street, Stark Naked Theater. Curator: Dianne Webb

2013 Soul: The Artist at Work, Winter Street Studios. Curator: Janet Roe

2013 Nocturnal Landscape, Rotunda Art Gallery, Houston

2013 Finding Self: An All Woman Art Show, Spring Street, Stark Naked Theater. Curator: Dianne Webb
2013 From O to Z: Wizard of Oz Oztravaganza, Hardy and Nance Street Studios, Houston

2012 NYU Venice, 80wse Galleries, New York

2012 Wade Wilson Inaugural Show, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Impressions Print Show, Wade Wilson Art, Houston

2012 Dog Park, Gallery G, Houston
2012 References to the Real World: Figures in a Life, Carolyn Garcia Gallery, Houston
2011 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center
2011 New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas. Curators: Kenneth Craighead and Steve Green

2011 It’s Raining Cats and Dogs, Mother Dog Studios, Houston. Curator: John Runnels

2010 Four Dimensions, Vaughan Christopher Gallery, Houston. Curator: Ginger Wright

2010 Summer Swim, Nauhaus Gallery, Houston, Curator: Dan Allison
2009 Showcase Houston, Deutser Gallery, Houston, Curator: Marilyn Hassid
2009 Submerged, Master Thesis Show NYU, Washington Square East Galleries, NYC.

Curators: Ruth Newman and Kirby Gookin

2009 Through the Looking Glass, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts.

Curators: Joe Havel and Steve Smith

2008 Teacher Edition, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston Downtown. Curator: Mark Cervenka

2008 Texas, Bering and James Gallery, Houston. Curator: Austin James
2007 The Monotype Exhibition, Museum of Printing History, Houston. Curator: Patrick Masterson

2007 Cinco, Bering and James Gallery, Houston. Curator: Austin James
2007 Amistad, Texas Artists in Peru, Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru. Curator: Gus Kopriva

2007 Works in Progress, Universita luav di Venezia, Italy. New York University. Curator: Maurizio Pellegrin

2006 Texas Artist Invitational, North Harris College. Curator: Professor Gary M. Conners

2005 Clean Slate, G Gallery, Houston. Curator: Wayne Gilbert

2005 Texas National, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas. Curator: James Surls

2005 Project Storm: Hurricane Relief Benefit. Project Row Houses, Houston. Curator: Apama

Mackey, Mackey Gallery
2005 Everybody Art Show Us Your Feminism, University of Houston. Curators: Terrie Sultan,

Michelle Barnes, Lynn Randolph
2005 Back Room, Gallery DIG, Houston. Curator: Wayne Gilbert
2005 Vistas and Visions, Houston Foundry, Curator: Lynn Wexler
2005 Municipal Arts Commission, City Hall, Houston, Curator: Gus Kopriva
2004 The Ten Plagues Invitational, Deutser Gallery, Houston, Texas, Curator: Jennifer Handy

2004 Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art, Williams Tower, Houston, Curator:

Jennifer Gross, Yale Contemporary Art Museum
2004 Showcase Houston, Deutser Gallery, Houston, Curator: Miriam Kogan
2003 Soft Frequency Hardware, Gallery 101, Houston, Curator: Wayne Gilbert
2003 Box Show, Mind Puddles Gallery/Bering & James Gallery Houston, Curator: Austin James

2003 Free for All, Steve Martin Gallery New Orleans, Louisiana, Curator: Steve Martin
2002 The National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita,Kansas, Curator: Edmund P. Pillsbury

2002 The Art of Living, ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Curator: Greg Donner
2002 Humid: Hot, Sweet and Sticky, Lubbock, Texas Curators: Gus Kopriva and Wayne Gilbert

2002-05 Annual Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Retablos Show, Lawndale Art Center,Houston

2001 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center Houston, Curator: Annette DiMeo Carlozzi

2001 Visual Arts Alliance Exhibition, Allen Center III Houston, Curator: Clint Willour

2001 Soul Journeys, The CG Jung Center Houston, Curator: Linda Peyton Huff

corporate & public collections

African American Archives and Research Center of Houston

Congregation Brith Shalom, Houston
Frostburg State University, Maryland
George Washington University, DC
The Jung Center of Houston

Lyondell Corporation, Houston
Montgomery College, The Woodlands,

Myrtle Beach Art Museum, North Carolina

Houston Municipal District Services, Cypress, Texas

The University of Houston, Downtown

awards & projects

2024 In the Voice of Bonnard, Art History Orientation, Kimball Museum Tour & Studio Workshop

2023 Honor Award, Watercolor Art Society, Houston

2023 In The Voice of Matisse, Watercolor Art Society, Houston

2023 Cloud Workshop & Plein Air Painting, Evelyn's Park, Houston

2023 Painting Water Demo, Watercolor Art Society, Houston

2021 Portrait Demo Ala Portrait Artist of the Year, Portrait Artists of America, Sawyer Yards, Houston

2019 Sol Le Witt Installation Artisan, Anderson Clarke Building Rice University

2019 Water Catch the Wave: The Art of Painting Water, William H. Miller Gallery & Studios, Myrtle Beach, NC

2017 Led MidCareer Studio Workshop, Taos, NM

2017 Mural Commissions, Pet Superstores, Houston

2014 Lecturer, John Singer Sargent, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2013 Conversations with the Angel of Death, Congregation Brith Shalom

2013 Juror, Watercolor Art Society of Houston
2012 Hunting Prize Finalist, Hunting Oil

2012 Texas Contemporary Art Fair

2012 The Sktechbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York City, International Traveling Exhibit
2012 Mural Commission, The Aranda Residence, Bellaire, Texas
2012 Art Tour Lecturer, Lucian Freud and Dale Chihuly Exhibitions, Dallas and Ft. Worth

2012 Art History Lecture, Six Jewish Artists, National Council of Jewish Women

2011 Christmas Card Design, St. Agnes Academy, Houston
2004-14 Torah Cover Commissions, Congregation Brith Shalom, Bellaire
1986 Mural Commission, Cupolas, Dallas
1984 Mitchell A. Wilder Award, Excellence In Publishing Design, Dallas Museum of Art
1981 Mural Commission, Brady Heights Neighborhood, Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, OK

1976 Mural Commissions, George Washington University, Marvin Center, Madison Hall, Housing

Office, Washington, D.C.

1975 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Grant Mural Project-Public Works,

Baltimore, Maryland
1974 Mural Commission, Student Center, Administrative Offices, Frostburg State University, Maryland

education

2022 "Demystifying the Portrait" with Aiden Barker-Hill, New York Art Academy, On-line

2022 "Constructing the Contemporary Narrative" with Eric Fischl, New York Art Academy, Sag Habor

2007-2009 Masters in Studio Art, Painting, New York University, Venice, Italy, and New York City

2000-2004 Advanced Painting and Printmaking, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1975-1976 Masters of Arts in Teaching, Museum Education, George Washington University, D.C.

1970-1974 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Frostburg State University, Maryland
1972-1973 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, – One Year at MICA and Mural Apprenticeship

curatorial, press & writing experience

2022 Artwork Published in Texlandia Rice University Literary Magazine, Houston

2014 Houston Chronicle, "Earth Matters," Molly Gentzler

2014 The Glasscock School News, Keri Bas, "Learning to See Differently," February

2013 Art Slant
2013 Houston Modern Luxury

2013 Jewish Herald-Voice, Aaron Howard, "Houston Painter Brings Us To The Edge," July 11

2013 Jewish Herald-Voice, Aaron Howard, "Casual Conversations with the Angel of Death, " Sept 26

2009 Jewish Herald-Voice, Aaron Howard, "Two Questions of Ellen Orseck,"

2007 Houston Press, Sean Carroll, Capsule Art Reviews
2006 Essayist, Broken Brushes: German Art From the Kaiser to Hitler by Gus Kopriva

2006 Curator, A Prelude to Sculpture, Strake Jesuit Art Museum, Houston

2003-05 Curator,Strake Jesuit Art Museum, Houston

2003 Curator, How Modern Art Escaped Hitler, Holocaust Museum Houston

1997-03 Curator, Holocaust Museum Houston
1994-96 Senior Editor, Southwest Art Magazine
1988-92 Feature Writer, Museum and Arts Magazine, Art Lies, Texas Star, Jewish Herald-Voice

1982-85 Director of Outreach, Dallas Museum if Art

teaching experience
2011-present Art Instructor, Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, Rice University

2011-present Houston Art Instructor, Watercolor Art Society Houston, WASH
2011-2013. Art Instructor, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2011 Adjunct Professor of Art, University of Houston, Downtown
2005-2011 Art Instructor, St. Agnes Academy, Houston
2003-2009 Private Art Instructor, The Houston Foundry, Winter Street Studios.
1982-1985 Art Historian, Lectures, Education Department, Dallas Museum of Art

ellen orseck studio The Silos at Sawyer Yards Studio 127 1502 Sawyer Street Houston, Texas 77007