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Ellen Frances Tuchman was born in Los Angeles, studied at U.C.L.A. and California College of the Arts (BFA, 1976). She lives in Dallas, Texas and is affiliated with PanAmerican ArtProjects in Dallas and Miami, Koelsch Gallery in Houston, and George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles.
In June 2007 she had a solo show of her quillwork paintings at PanAmerican ArtProjects in Dallas called ROADTRIP. In the fall of 2007 she had solo exhibitions in Houston and Miami focusing on her narrative mixed media explorations of popular culture. She participated in Bookworks at theGalveston Art Center and several fairs in Miami this past December. Recent public commissions include the Stoneleigh Hotel and Trader Vics in Dallas and the Federal Reserve Bank, Houston.
Steve Carter’s article about her work, “Artist in Wonderland”,appeared in the July 2007 issue of Modern Dallas Luxury. Other recent reviews include those by Charissa N. Terravnova (OBJECTification, University of Texas at Arlington), Renee Targos (ART-TALK, “Discovering Ms. X: The Art World’s Feminine Side”, Aug/Sept 2005), Kim Alexander (“A Play on the Sacred: Chapel Chromatica” atLawndale Art Center).
PUBLIC ART
2010 ON A WAVE & HOT SPOT, DLA PIPER, LLC, Houston, TX
Mixed media: hand-painted coiled paper quills hand-sewn upon polyfilm.
Each panel is 38 x 72 inches (paper size); overall 46 x 180 inches (installed)
Budget $12,000
Commissioned for the reception area by MKG Art Management, LLC, 2825 Colquitt, Houston, Texas 77098-2115
(713) 526-4146 www.mkgart.com
2010 HONOR OUR PAST, BUILD OUR FUTURE, JOHN PHELPS HARRIS COURTHOUSE ANNEX, Pasadena, TX
Mixed media on Mylar: acrylic paint, colored pencil, vintage memorabilia and souvenirs, magazines, postcards, matchbooks, first-day covers, photos and digital scans, photos and digital scans; surfaces painted and hand-sewn with embellishments (thread, beads, buttons, sequins, rhinestones).
Overall 9 x 22 feet (as shown); Budget $50,000
Commissioned by Commissioner Sylvia R. Garcia, Harris County Precinct 2 for the entry rotunda and lobby of the JOHN PHELPS HARRIS COURTHOUSE ANNEX, Pasadena, Texas
I was charged with telling the story of Pasadena and the neighboring six cities along the Ship Channel, from 1890- 2000 in a series of mixed-media paintings. I held community meetings to collect memorabilia and involve the residents in the project. There are ten individually framed sections and they were installed in October 2010.
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Out Of My Mind, PanAmerican ArtProjects, Dallas, TX
Travelogue, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 Road Trip, PanAmerican ArtProjects, Dallas, TX (June 1 – July 7)
Ellen Frances Tuchman, PanAmerican ArtProjects, Miami, FL (September 8 – October 13)
Anecdotes, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX (September 27 – October 20, 2007)
2006 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Re-Membering, Pan American
Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
Chapel Chromatica,
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Vistarama,
Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
No Small
Thing, Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Translucence of Time,
Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Remember
When, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
Chapel
Chromatica, THE MAC, Dallas, TX, travels to Lawndale Art Center,
Houston, TX
2003 Chapel Chromatica, Four Walls, Fort Worth,
TX
Installation
at Travis Tower, Houston, TX
Memento
Mori, C. G. Jung Center, Houston, TX
2002 Chronometry, North Harris College, Houston,
TX
Studio visit
sponsored by THE MAC, Dallas, TX
2001 The Four Seasons, Galveston Arts Center,
Galveston, TX
The Four
Seasons, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
2000 Studio visit sponsored by the Museum of Arts and
Design (American Craft Museum), NY
1996 Sentimental Journey, Hebrew Home for
the Aged, Riverdale, NY
1995 One Urban Man, Two Suburban Women, Marie
Park, Dallas, TX
1993 Gardens and Fairy Tales, Artisana/Gallery
2526, Dallas, TX
1992 Recent Works, Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, TX
1982 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1981 Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Obsessive Worlds, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
2008 Candyland, PanAmerican ArtProjects, Dallas, TX
2007 Cool, PanAmerican ArtProjects, Dallas, TX (July 13 - September 1, 2007)
Bookworks, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
2006 con(text), Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
Assistance
League of Houston CELEBRATES TEXAS ART 2006, Houston, TX
(juror: Jeffrey
Grove, High Museum of Art, Atlanta)
2005 Layered, Stacked, Assembled, Arlington
Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Galerie Sho,
Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Art Fair, August 5-8)
Group
Show: Summer Salon, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 OBJECTification, The Gallery at the University
of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
AAF Contemporary
Art Fair, Koelsch Gallery booth 203 New York, NY
Contemporary
Feminism, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
Pan
American Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
scope
la, Koelsch Gallery, room 201, Los Angeles, CA
100 Drawings,
University of Dallas, Haggerty Gallery, Irving, TX
Material
Possibilities, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
RED,
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Choice
Art, for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Sotheby's, New
York, NY
2003 Mark Making: A Drawing Show, Arlington
Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
way cool,
Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
Modern
HeART, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2002 Juror’s Choice: The 2002 Member’s Show,
Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
Women
Image: Image of Women, The Gallery at Dodds Hall, University of New
Haven, CT
CraftHouston
2002: Texas, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston,
TX, curator: Kenneth
Trapp (catalogue; travels to the Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, South Texas
Institute for
the Arts, Corpus Christi and the Galveston Art Center)
Dumbo
and Beyond, Davis Gallery, Austin, TX, curator: Marjorie Moore
Pink
Perspectives,
Studio 107, Austin, TX, curator: Catherine Dossin (catalogue)
2001 Patrons, Lovers and Other Romantics, Contemporary
Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2000 Joyce Scott and Friends Revisited: Pushing the
Boundaries of Beadwork, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge,
MA
Material
World, Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Beadwork
in America, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE (traveled to Hastings College;
catalogue)
1999 Masquerade, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas,
TX
