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Artist Statement
These snapshots of the collective unconscious pull for the evolution of human culture. Art lifts the veil and allows us to consider what was previously unseen. We live in a time of amazing change: the possibility of transcendence and continued evolution side by side with the possibility of mass destruction and decline. In these extremes, we either create and evolve or stagnate and perish.
My process is organic. I begin a work in a frenzy of torn and cut images, glue and medium. I finish in an ever-tightening process of painting and drawing, refining space and bringing in light. Layers of imagery and text are embedded in acrylic and oil medium on paper and panels with paint, encaustic, fabric and other objects, graphite, pastel, charcoal and ink. Enjoy!
Exhibitions
5-9/10-09
Marin Arts Council, Sausalito & San Rafael, California
Open Studios & Gallery Exhibition
7-05-08
Second City Council, Long Beach, California
Strength& Vulnerability
1-16-08
Merced College Art Gallery, Merced, California
Lifting the Veil
10-22-07
Pacific Center for the Book Arts @ Cal State Hayward
Cutting Edge Books
11-8-07
SomArts Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco
Evolution
3-15-07
California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco
Works by Pam Lanza and Ellie Barrett Wilder
01-11-07
SomArts Cultural Center, Bay Gallery, San Francisco
Live or Tell/Decline of the Great Society
7-10-06
Caffe Trieste, Sausalito, California
Solo show through September 10, 2006
3/11/06
UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco
Group Show
Gallery Representation
Reviews and Press
2007
ArtSpan
Live or Tell
2006 +
Saatchi Gallery
Ellie Barrett Wilder
2005
Alder Art Gallery, Orgeon
LaPetite Exhibition
10/2007
SF Station
Evolution
3/14/2007
The Nation Online
Lifting the Veil
3/2007
Spirit in the Arts
Lifting the Veil