{"id":1699,"date":"2022-01-26T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2022-01-26T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T20:16:55","slug":"ellen-peckham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/ellen-peckham","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Peckham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Confessional Self Portrait: Mollusk<\/em>
24″x18″; solarplate etching with ink on radiant white; 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellen Peckham
Riverdale, New York, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collage, for me, is a vocabulary that offers varying visual images as mutable letters spelling out with juxtapositions messages, poems or reconfigured environments. As I use them with etchings, they are stage sets that enhance what was simply a print, providing mood, information, another level of sensuality and colour, colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A printmaker and poet for many years, I pushed and stretched my work to express passion, loss or memories, often including text in the etchings, always searching for more emotion, specificity. Asked why I continue to refashion “finished” work, I quote Keats who said, “…the excellence of every Art is its intensity…” *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many instances, the image to be used had strong personal associations and from that I chose items of history; tickets, fabrics, labels and dried vegetation, an old fan, ripped silk from a robe. It often seems this things are imbued with something that makes their inclusion another level–one beyond my usual materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when I took up a plate that had served, I thought, its purpose and brought it down on a collage from the same inspiration, I found a mix that lets me go on driving the many ways of communicating. It has been a source of great and continuing enjoyment and adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellen Peckham has read, published and exhibited in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. She frequently uses both art forms in a single work, the text decorating and explicating and the image illuminating. Her archives of drafts, edits and art are collected at the Harry Ransom Center For The Humanities and a 7-minute visual biography, Parallel Vocabularies<\/em>, is available on DVD and via her website, www.ellenpeckham.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[click to email<\/a>]
www.ellenpeckham.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printed Collage: Mollusk (seaweed)<\/em>
24″x18″; solarplate etching with inked tarl, striped paper, rice paper, strings; 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printed Collage: Anson, Anson<\/em>
24″x18″; solarplate etching, black shawl with fringe, silk, menus, book plates; 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printed Collage: Nest (rose)<\/em>
24″x18″; solarplate etching with fan, magnolia & butterfly kimono fabric, black flower paper, embroidered silk strip; 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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