Take Me Out of the Blue #13, 2022

Ellen Brook  

Ellen Brook creates vibrant and expressive abstract mixed media artwork. Ellen's passion for color, spontaneous gestures, marks and textiles come together in her work as visual poetry. Art is a perfect place to explore her curiosity about the human condition, the nature of the mind, and the properties of beauty and color as they relate to healing. Ellen's most recent series, "Message in a Bottle," explores the themes of longing and connection based on a box of 100 year old letters she discovered that were written by her grandfather (whom she never met) when he was a soldier in WW1.

Ellen also creates one of a kind fashion that has many of the same qualities of energy, dynamism and movement found in her visual art.

Education:
Duke University (BA)
Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MPA)
Awards & Distinctions:
Work selected for the promotional materials of San Francisco De Young Museum's Artwear Event..
Artwork featured at Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History's "Handmade" Group Show.

Exhibitions:
2021
Installation at UCSF, China Basin

2017
"Sanctuary" Woodside Priory (solo)

2016
"Handmade" Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (group)

2013
"Awaken" San Mateo County Law Library, Redwood City, CA (solo)
“Color on the Rocks" GraniteRock Design Showroom, Cupertino, CA (2-person)
“Color and Line" New Coast Studios, Palo Alto, Ca (group)

2012
“Women of Wisdom," Gallery at Fibre Arts Design, Palo Alto, Ca. (group)
“Dreamscapes: Color Explorations on Silk," Gallery at Fibre Arts Design, Palo Alto, Ca (solo)

2011
Hinc Showroom, Galleria Design Center, San Francisco, Ca.
“Inspired," Spirit House, Woodside Ca, (solo)
“Bay Area Contemporary Painters", Arc Studios and Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. (group)

2010
“Watermarks II" - selected as one of 13 paintings on cover of San Francisco Open Studios Guide
Ariba Software, Lobby, Sunnyvale, Ca
Momentum 2, Art Object Gallery, San Jose, Ca (group)

Artistic Influences:
Georgia OKeefe. Motherwell. Diebenkorn.