Christine Ellinghausen

CHRISTINE ELLINGHAUSEN
B.1952

CESTUDIO,1983-present,my studio life spans over 40 years.

Moving to South Florida in 1980 from New York City, I returned to making art full time.

I made contemporary ceramics combining the practical vessel with the abstracted form for 17 years. I then explored oil monotypes and I now work on creating mixed photo collage on aluminum panel and mixed media sculptures.

In 2015, I redesigned my studio to include large format digital printers to produce my original images allowing me to invent complex photo collage /mixed media on aluminum panel and other creative substrates. The materials and solutions that I use are newly invented which has allowed me to do exciting basic research, pioneering this non toxic process. I also teach workshops on this exciting process.

This system of image transfer has liberated me to be able to use collage as a rebus of ephemera. My art work is to be read as visual poems, like puzzles of memories and associations…Each item conversing with the others, all working as one statement.

I love the relics of our western world, even as I imagine our future possibilities. What we see today as nostalgia, a soothing view of the past, will soon enough be seen as just footnotes from long ago. In the library of time, will it be only clicked and given to ai?

I look to preserve and honor images that would have otherwise be lost in history. I make these stories as a solo human artist, without robotic advice or consent.

The dreams of artists, writers and engineers, are becoming reality while we watch.

My home is in lovely Lake Worth Beach, Florida, an old beach town on the Atlantic coast, where I continue to have creative fun in my rehabbed 1923 house /studio, no matter the weather.