Here are a variety of pieces that are each available as high quality, giclee prints on cotton paper.
If you're interested in prints (or originals), email me at: ellenbergerart (at) gmail.com
lest you gavage me
With a title inspired by John Donne's "Holy Sonnet 14" (..."lest you ravage me"), lest you gavage portrays a bird that is reaching its head up, presumably to be forcefed. There are archways winding down its throat, suggestive of what we ourselves must swallow whether we want to or not.
everything is fine
Inspired by a cartoon certain dog drinking coffee in a burning kitchen, everything is fine, in its particularly meticulous linework, draws attention to the rawness behind our admissions of fineness. The suggestion of human form blends in with all that surrounds it. Even at the center it can be hard to find ourselves.
the waiting room at the end of the world
Desolate, dark, a landscape painting at heart, The waiting room at the end of the world portrays a long line of human figures who are turning, one by one, into a labyrinth beneath the ground. The exclamation point suggests that this might be a quest. The weathervane suggests that it might be a cross.
the anatomy of a melting point
This piece contrasts a single drop with the enormity of our complicated reality.
a celebration of futility
Whatever the mountain might have had in mind, it became a mountain. a celebration of futility is a suggestive, abstract landscape that praises, at scale, the enormity of a single stroke.
some kind of scape
There are cities tucked between the hills. Are those valleys or are those teeth? some kind of scape is aptly titled.
balancing act
balancing act portrays a cartoonish figure balancing on one long toe. A chef? A mote of moss under a microscope? On a personal note, I made this piece while struggling with my own mobility issues. It's one of the few originals I don't think I'd ever be able to sell.
a fork in the dream
This is a painting of convergence; the two streams on the left merge, drawing attention to the fact that no matter how many paths are available to us, we only ever get to walk one.
the clocktower
This piece engages with the abstract concreteness of time; how it sometimes feels like we exist within it, beyond it, and behind it all at once.
perpetual volta
A "volta" is a rhetorical change in a sonnet; it is the point where the poem's logic begins to change and look at the subject matter in a different way. perpetual volta is a piece that embraces our differences as something that unites us.
returning to a place no one has ever been
The dark lines on the left resemble two abstract figures, one walking away while the other, in the distance, stands and watches. My father passed away in late 2024; returning to a place no one has ever been was created months before his death, but this piece resonates more with me now. I see in it a kind of goodbye.