New Lithographs by Amy Ellingson
Eli Ridgway Gallery is pleased to offer two new color lithographs by Amy Ellingson. Each print, produced at Shark’s Ink in Lyons, CO, is 27¼ x 28½ inches and an edition of 30, plus proofs.
Amy Ellingson writes, “In early September, I made my second trip to Shark’s Ink. in Lyons, Colorado. It was wonderful to be invited back to create another pair of lithographs with Bud Shark and his team, especially because we were able to build upon last year’s experience. This time around, I endeavored to create a pair of prints that I would never be able to execute as paintings, due to the complexity and small-scale detail of the imagery. Once again, I wanted to take full advantage of the unique characteristics of lithography ink, which is deliciously brilliant and saturated, yet transparent.
My understanding of the lithography process is evolving, which allowed me to build my digital files in a more orderly way than I did last year. However, my increased experience also gave me license to make decisions that presented new challenges for us. The dark graphite line is the last color printed on both prints. The registration of the line element is extremely tight, and is meant to reference both Japanese printmaking and comic book illustration. I was interested in creating complex imagery primarily through the near-black line, while keeping most of the other colors as simple fills or blobs of color. In addition, there are thicker, colored line elements in each print which provide a lattice-like structure, holding and calming the otherwise free, somewhat chaotic compositions.”
Amy Ellingson
Identical/Variation (red, yellow, blue), 2020
Nine color lithograph on Rives BFK
27 ¼ x 28 ½ inches
Edition of 30
Amy Ellingson
Identical/Variation (red, blue, green), 2020
Nine color lithograph on Rives BFK
27 ¼ x 28 ½ inches
Edition of 30
About Amy Ellingson
Amy Ellingson’s work has been exhibited nationally and in Tokyo, Japan. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and the Artadia Grant to Individual Artists and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Recent group exhibitions include Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University. Ellingson’s work is held in various public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the US Embassies in Algeria and Tunisia. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and an M.F.A. from CalArts. Her public commission, Untitled (Large Variation), is an 1100 square foot ceramic mosaic mural. It is a permanent installation on view in Terminal 3 at the San Francisco International Airport. Ellingson was Associate Professor of Art at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2000 to 2011 and has served on the Board of Directors at Root Division, a San Francisco nonprofit arts organization, since 2011. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
