"Jersey"- 16x20 - $600
Ellen Wong was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a Studio Arts major at Brooklyn College, she studied painting with Philip Pearlstein and Bob Henry. Most recently she studied painting from life with Jack Faragasso and Dan Dickerson at the Art Students League.
She has been the recipient of numerous grants and recognitions, most notably the NYS Council of the Arts DEC Grant administered by the Roxbury Arts Group and sponsored by the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown, a NEA fellowship, and a teacher/artist residency at Skidmore College.
She is a founding member of the Longyear Gallery, a member of the EBDRPAP, and has had many one woman, and group shows in numerous galleries and venues in upstate New York and New York City. She currently has work showing in Small Works Invitational at the Blue Mountain Gallery in Chelsea, NY, and at the Delaware and Ulster RR in Arkville with the East Branch of the Delaware River Plein Air Painters.
“No man should become an artist who is not passionate about Nature” Camille Corot
For more than 20 years Ellen has been inspired and moved by nature, particularly the Catskill landscape. As a part time resident of Roxbury, she has painted her life and the life around her. “My work is about the land and a sense of place. In my search for inspiration, I now find myself drawn to the places that many of us just move through without stopping to see – a truck stop on the thruway bathed in glorious light after a storm, abandoned industrial buildings telling stories of the working village lives, a neighbors barn at evening milking… I am interested in the intersections between nature and man, the relationships and impositions formed by roads, highways, dams, structures,
Tabletop arrangements, what is found there and what has been brought… After all it is all about relationship and connection. By stopping to observe and see, I become one with my place.
I am not searching for new materials, but rather I am trying to push the expressive qualities of paint and graphite, light, space and color -- to paint my life and maybe you will recognize yours.“
Face of Farming, a multi media exhibit at RAG (July 2009) told the story of a working Catskill landscape, through video, audio, photographs, watercolors and formal oil portraits. It documented five of the last operating dairy farming families in the area, to memorialize the art of working the land and celebrate their commitment to a fast disappearing lifestyle. She is currently co hosting The Farm Hour, a weekly talk show
about local agriculture on WIOX, 91.3 FM.
This year Ellen’s watercolor was chosen for the Open Eye Fundraiser. Raffles are sold throughout their summer season and drawn in the late fall.
Ellen’s work is in many private collections.
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