ELLEN GEORGE

EDUCATION
B.A., Austin College, Sherman, TX

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Prairie, Ida Green Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, TX

2011
Sensing Place, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2010
Prairie Notes, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2009
Nose Touches Twig, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2008
Weather, PDX Window Project, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Things Turning, a collaboration with Jerry Mayer, NINE Gallery at Blue Sky, Portland, OR

2007
Undergrowth, Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX

2006
Speciation, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2005
Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Thin Air, Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX

2004
Meadow, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Out of Doors, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

2003
Mum, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR
Variation, Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX

2002
Trail and Other Things, Commencement Gallery, City of Tacoma Art Commission, Tacoma, WA
Arrangements, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2001
Jubilee, PDX Window Project, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Small Sculpture: Ellen George, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
Ellen George, Visual Art Center Gallery, Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
Ellen George, Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX

2000
Post Mark: Objects by Ellen George, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX
Special Handling, Lower Columbia College Art Gallery, Longview, WA

1999
Little Tin Boxes, Commencement Gallery 9th St. Window, Tacoma, WA

1997
Round, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
Nocturnes, New Work by Ellen George, Artists Repertory theater, Portland, OR
He Dreams of Flying, Gallery 114, Portland, OR

1995
Magic 8 Ball Paintings, Gallery 114, Portland, OR

1994
Learning to Count, Gallery 114

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Clouds Inclose Comets, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2011
Space, collaborative exhibition with Jerry Mayer, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
2011, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

2010
Drawing Room, collaborative exhibition with Jerry Mayer, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
Lightly: Ellen George & Jerry Mayer, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
Group Show, PDX Across the Hall, Portland, OR

2009
Open Stacks, PDX Across the Hall, Portland, OR
Winter Light, Leo Michelson, curator. Collaboration with Jerry Mayer. Beppu Wiarda Gallery Portland OR

2008
Weight, Mount Hood Community College Visual Arts Gallery, Portland OR
Turning Things, collaboration with Jerry Mayer, Nine Gallery, Portland OR
Volume, Jeff Jahn, curator. Collaboration with Jerry Mayer. Worksound, Portland OR

2007
Building Tradition: Contemporary Northwest Art from Tacoma Art Museum, Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham, WA
The Hook Up, Jesse Hayward, curator, New American Art Union, Portland, OR

2006
In Clover, Scott Wayne Indiana, curator, Guestroom Gallery, Portland, OR
Grey/Area" TJ Norris, curator, Guestroom Gallery, Portland, OR
Thread Counts Project, Brookline, MA

2005
Good Bird/Bad Bird, Contemporary Crafts Museum & Gallery, Portland, OR
War Drawings, Visual Arts Center, Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
Fresh Trouble, freshtrouble.com, Jeff Jahn, curator, Portland, OR
3rd Around Oregon Annual, ArtCentric Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
Juried Exhibition, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

2004
21 Years of Studios: Friends of Carton Services, Haze Gallery and Carton Services, Portland, OR
Summer Group Show, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Pacific Northwest Annual, Adell McMillan Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Building Tradition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA catalogue

2003
Symbiont/Synthetic, Core Sample, Jeff Jahn, curator, Portland, OR
Building Tradition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA catalogue
2003 Biennial Review of NW Art & Craft, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
Dancing on the Walls, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Alias, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR

2002
The Box Show, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
Work, Center Space, Portland, OR
Abstract Realism, Mail Art Show, Manchester, England brochure

2001
2001 Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
New Works, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Tacoma Art Museum’s Sixth Northwest Biennial: Pleasure Craft, Tacoma, WA (received Juror’s Award)
Celebrate Northwest Women 2001, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
Recycled Treasures, White Sturgeon Art Gallery, Water Resources Education Center, Vancouver, WA

2000
Holiday Box, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Holiday Group Show, Gallery Artists, Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, TX
Traditional Methods/Transcendent Expressions, Kathryn Cawein Gallery, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
The 7th Annual International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (Selected for traveling exhibit through 2002)
The Art Is In The Mail(ing): Mail Art Exhibit complementing: Ray Johnson: Correspondences, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

1999
The Inquisitive Object: A Biennial Review of NW Art & Craft, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR (Received Award of Merit)
Mail Art Exhibit in conjunction with Ray Johnson: Correspondences, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, New York
South Sound Annual, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Beyond the Fold: Artist’s Books from Traditional to Cutting Edge, The Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ

1998
Co-operators, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
Christmas at tidbit, tidbit, Portland, OR
11th Annual Miniature Show, Cannon Beach Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR

1997
In/Visible, The Spare Room, Salem, OR

1996
Celebrate Northwest Women 1996, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR

1994
National Small Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Boise State University, Boise, ID

GRANTS/AWARDS
2009
Grant for Artist Projects, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission

2002
Award Recipient, Grants for Artist Projects (GAP), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
Special Recognition Award, Art Port Townsend 2002 Annual Juried Exhibit, Port Townsend, WA Jim McDonald, Curator: Safeco Collection, Jurist

2001
Juror’s Award, Tacoma Art Museum’s Sixth Northwest Biennial: Pleasure Craft, Tacoma, WA

1999
Award of Merit, The Inquisitive Object: A Biennial Review of NW Art & Craft, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2011
Johnson, Barry. “Weekend Wrap: Touring Portland Galleries.” OPB Arts & Life, Nov. 14
WW Pick, Willamette Week, November
“Ellen George at PDX Contemporary Art.” Fall Arts Preview, Willamette Week, Sept. 14

2010
“Ellen George and Jerry Mayer’s ‘Drawing Room’ at Blue Sky Gallery.” The Oregonian, Nov. 26

2009
Speer, Richard, "PDX Contemporary Art: Mary Henry, Ellen George," Willamette Week, May 6
"Vancouver artist tackles new medium," The Columbian, May 3
Douglas, Arcy, "Ellen George's Nose Touches Twig at PDX Contemporary Art, PORT, May 1

2008
Row, D.K. “Hotel Art Goes High-end at The Nines,” Ultimate Northwest, December
Row, D.K. “The art at the Nines Hotel,” The Oregonian, November 26
“Shows of Note,” The Oregonian, October 31
Speer, Richard. “Then Nines,” Willamette Week, October 29
Speer, Richard. “Volume at Worksound,” Willamette Week. September 17
Jahn, Jeff. “Last Chance Reviews,” PORT, August 1
Norris, TJ. “Beautiful Things,” Unblogged, July 30

2007
Holmes, Justin. “Tribeza Pick/Joan Wich Gallery,” Tribeza. November
Pence, Elizabeth.“Building Tradition at the Whatcom Museum,” Artweek, February
Wiggers, Namita Gupta.“Ellen George, PDX Contemporary Art,” Artlies, Summer

2006
D.K. Row, “Beauty to the Max, Minimally,” The Orgegonian, June 5

2005
“Ellen George at Archer Gallery,” PORT, October 24
Jahn, Jeff. “Portland Art in 2004... and 2005,” Critical i. NW Drizzle. January

2004
Terranova, Charissa N. “Ellen George Out of Doors,” Dallas Observer, October
Zamudio, Raul. ArtNexus, AAF New York
Allan, Lois. “Ellen George at PDX,” Artweek, May
Jahn, Jeff. “The Imports,” Critical i. NW Drizzle. April
Hayward, Jesse. “Ellen George, PDX Contemporary Art.” The Organ, Summer

2003
Zotos, John, “Ellen George: Variation”, Artlies: A Texas Art Journal, Summer
Row, D.K., “Two Cultural Views, One Voice.” The Oregonian, May 9
Jahn, Jeff. “View From Portland”. Modern Painters, Spring

2002
Graves, Jen. “The Arts: TAM’s Stone Wave Soul. . .” The New Tribune, December 8
Jahn, Jeff. “Chicago, PDX & Ellen George.” Critical i, NW Scuttle, June
Lambert, Lisa. “One Review/WW Pick.” Willamette Week, June 5

2001
Hackett, Regina. “Northwest Pluck at BAM.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer,October 23
Kangas, Matthew. “Works in BAM’s Annual Resist Traditional Categories.” Seattle Times, October 19
Graves, Jen. “Chicago Painter Picked Pieces For ‘Pleasure Craft’ Northwest Biennial Exhibit.” The News Tribune, June 22
Taylor, M. Khalil. “George Uses Miniature.” University of Houston Daily Cougar, March 27

1999
Bischoff, Dan. “Bound for Pleasure. The Star Ledger, September 24
Zingaro, Maria. “South Orange Exhibit Writes the Book on Originality,” Essex Journal, September 19
Zimmer, William. “Books Speaking Volumes, Often From Their Covers.” The New York Times, September 19

1997
Ferranto, Matt. “Spare Art.” Untitled, March

1994
Ferranto, Matt. “Count Basic.” Arts Oregon, April/May

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Nines, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Portland, OR
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
4 Culture and King County Public Art, Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
Museum of East Texas, Lukin, TX