ellen deitell newman artist
a bit about me
• Bio:
Born in Warsaw, Poland.
lives & works in N.Y.C.
Printmaker, Collagist, Sculptor,
Portraitist, Digital Artist & Curator;
Trained at major, art colleges:
• Maryland Institute College of Art
(MICA), Baltimore, Md.,
• Queens College CUNY, NYC.
In 1970's, Studied w/ Leo.Manso
& Victor Kandell in Provincetown,
Mass., and afterward, group critique
sessions in NYC.
• Education:
• Queens College CUNY•1986, B.A. Studio Art., Summa Cum Laude,
Honors. Emphasis: Sculpture,
Drawing and Art History.
• FIT : Womens' Wear Design.
A.A.S. w/ Honors.
•Post Graduate Studies:
• HUNTER College CUNY –
Printmaking, Sculpture, Drawing.
• F.I.T. – C.A.D., SilkScreen Printing
• SVA-Digital Art, Web Technology
• Queens College, Indep. studies -
Kandinsky w/ Deborah Rosenthal.
Today working in multiple-mediums: Printmaking, Collage, photomontage
Sculpture (Clay), & Assemblage.
Exhibited with WCA-NY,
Women's Caucus Art–NY chapter.
J.A.S. Jewish Art Salon
& Indep. Open Call Exhibits.
Artist's Statement:
I work in multiple mediums. Frequently, my work is self-referential. After the fact, I find my out-put reflects my inner state. In my collages, I weave many threads: postwar family photos; images of destruction; patterns; textures and found objects. Bits of rust in particular intrigue, as I imagine their prior secret life. Anything striking a cord within ignites some vague, ephemeral stream which inevitably finds its way into these works. Meanwhile, the Abstractions hold secret mysteries, even from me.
In my work, I often transition between figurative and abstract and then back to figurative again."
Group Exhibitions:
• 2019 Hunter College Exhibit. "DBL Portrait", Clay Fired Bust, 2-Faces.
• 2017 'Subjective', Riverside Gallery
Linocut • "Abstract II" • 3rd place.
• "Green Nude", 4 Color Silk Screen.
• 2016 • "Looking Inward" Ceres Gallery, NYC • 2–Blk/Wht Linocuts: "Swirl I"; and "Abstraction I".
• 2015 • "The Jew as the Other", Abrazo Interno Gallery, NYC – "The Family" Intaglio print • "Follow Your Passion", Riverside Gallery,
NYC "for G.U.L.E.R."Collage, Rust, Detritus, papers, writing, wires,paint
• 2014 • "Ubiquitous" La Galeria, @
Boricua College, NYC, "My Papier Collé", Collage,+ melange materials
• "IDENTITY" Gallery Nine5, NoLita, NY, "Dinner w/JFK", photomontage
• "Water, Essence of Life – Israel & US", Painted Silk, Soft-Sculpture, Belskie Museum, NJ., • "Beauty & Destruction" Ground Floor Gallery, Bklyn, NY, "Worlds-Collide", Collage
• 2013 • "Touched by the Holocaust"
TriBeCa Synagogue for The Arts, NYC, Curator and Artist.
• "Diaspora" Exhibit, Century Artists Gallery, NY, "Warsaw Wall", 'C' Print • "Provocateur", Riverside Gallery,
"Viewer as Participant In Art" 3–D
Painting Concept, inviting viewer to
play w/ art. Plexiglass in 3-Parts.
• 2012 • "Dura Europos II", UJA
Gallery, NY., "Purim ReVisited",
Acrylic painting on Canvas.
• 2011 • "In DEFENSE of ISRAEL",
'Artists 4 Israel', Dershowitz Gallery, Bklyn, NY., Painted Silk Banner,
• "Embodied Light: 9-11 in 2011", E. Rubenstein Gallery, NYC,
"Memory Blocks". Photomontage,
• 2010 • "Dura Europos Project I", Phila. Museum of Jewish Art, Penn.
J.A.S., "PURIM I", Acrylic Painting.
• "Seduced By The Sacred",
Charter Oak Club, Hartford, Conn.,
"On The First Day", Acrylic painting.