PASSAGE
Ellen Babcock
mixed media sculpture / installation/ work on paper

Ellen Babcock completed her M.F.A. at the California College of the Arts in 2002. She was awarded the Cadogan Fellowship, the Dennis Leon faculty award, and the Headlands Center for the Arts studio award. She was a Headlands Affiliate Artist from 2002-2004. Ellen has exhibited at numerous gallerie s, including the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Southern Exposure, and the Exploratorium. She lives in San Francisco, and teaches at California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Artist Statement
"I often try to wrestle from scavenged, mundane materials, such as Styrofoam, some kind of surprising connection to landscape as a way to examine my desire for redemptive symbiosis. Like many of my comrades, searching for an appropriate scale for human activity in the landscape has increasingly become a preoccupation of my artmaking. With this work I take as a measure a landscape painting from nearly 150 years ago, Frederick Church’s The Icebergs ." EB

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