Ellen Gordon
Ellen Gordon
BIO
Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT-based award-winning mixed media artist.
Art Education
Greenwich Art Society School of Visual Art
The Silvermine School of Art, New Canaan, CT
Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT
Art Affiliations:
Contemporary Art Network, The Painting Center of NYC, Greenwich Arts Society, The Artists’ Cooperative of Westport, Connecticut Women Artists’, Stamford Art Associatioin and The New Haven Paint and Clay Club.
Education:
1985 MBA, Baruch College; 1982 BS, Boston University
In 2022, Ms. Gordon became the curator of the Mayor’s Art Gallery in Stamford, CT.
In 2024, Ms. Gordon became a commissioner for the City of Stamford’s Arts and Culture Commission.
Current board member of the Greenwich Art Society and the Connecticut Women Artists’. Served as the Executive Director of the Loft Artists Association (cooperative gallery with studios and gallery space) in Stamford CT for five years.
Artist Statement
Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT-based award-winning mixed media artist. The colors and patterns in her 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.
Instagram: @gordon.ellen