Ellen Frances Tuchman

Ellen Frances Tuchman

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  • THE RIBBON PAINTINGS
    • SUSUARRE 2023-2025 CLICK TO EXPAND
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  • RECENT SMALL WORK
  • statement and bio
  • 2012, 2019 EXHIBITION: THE B-SIDE
    • CATALOGUES AND ESSAYS
      • ESSAY BY WILLIAM SARRADET
      • THE B-SIDE REDUX: Artist's Statement June 2019
      • Ellen Tuchman’s “The B-Side” — Learning to Bear Witness by Patricia Mora
    • THE B-SIDE: five components in various arrangements
    • A LITTLE DAB'LL DO YA
    • MODERN ROMANCE
    • BLACK WIDOW
    • QUEEN BEE
    • ICE QUEEN
    • SHE-DEVIL
    • WITCHY WOMAN
    • MURDER OR A HEART ATTACK
    • ON A BENDER
    • OUT OF ORDER
    • UNDUN
    • INSTALLATION PHOTOS
  • 2018 EXHIBITION: R + R: reveries and responses
    • ESSAY
    • CATALOGUES
    • COLOR BY NUMBERS/panpantone (a continuing series of 50+ unique units)
    • INSTALLATION KOELSCH HAUS GALLERY, HOUSTON
    • CATTYWOMPAS
    • IT'S ONLY A HOBBY
  • 2003-05 EXHIBITION: CHAPEL CHROMATICA
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DROWNING AGAIN - detail
2023-2024
hand-painted paper quills hand-sewn onto a fabric digital print derived from THE ROSE STANDARD, with mottled acetate resin rings to hang
detail

Hundreds of hand-painted paper quills are hand-sewn to a fabric print derived from an earlier piece. Thinking of inky deep waters, bubbles of white foam, reaching for the stars. Many untold hours of labor are hidden in the fashioning of painted papers into quills, with plenty of time to worry.