The Heart Catches The Hand | Ellen George
Ellen George’s installation The Heart Catches the Hand fills the gallery with a composition of curvilinear, paper-thin wood panels in silverpoint, casein, ink, and pyrography. It is her nature to express the spirit in the coalescence of her daily Tai Chi and daily studio practices. George explores their shared concepts of expansion, circularity and balance by listening first, then moving and working from within. Shapes, gestures, lines, and placement derive from this exploration.
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART in Portland has represented Ellen George since 2002, presenting ten solo shows of her work to date.
Ellen’s work has been exhibited at the Tacoma Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland, OR), Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, CA), Portland Chinatown Museum and Whatcom Museum of Art (Bellingham, WA).
A member of Nine Gallery (housed in Blue Sky Gallery Portland, OR) since 2008, Ellen has created numerous installation exhibitions for that space.
Her work is included in the collections of 4Culture and King County Public Art, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center, Tacoma Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation and the Microsoft Collection.
A Chinese (American born 1957) artist living and working in Vancouver, Washington, Ellen is a 2024 recipient of the SOLA/Artist Trust award, Seattle, Washington.