Ellen Hochberg
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"The
Poetics of Space" began as an investigation into the changes that a woman
passes through in the various stages of her life. "When I was a child, the adults in my life laid
out the path I knew they expected me to follow. I was to go to
school, graduate from college, begin a career, get married, and have
children. But at each of those steps, I realized I was a different
person than the one I had been earlier, or would be later. So, using
a leaf-like shape as a metaphor, I divided a woman’s life into distinct stages
chronicling birth to death. I began a series of drawings on paper to
explore the essence of each stage. Stages that were unknown to me
were left blank."
Inspired
by the writings of philosopher Gaston Bachelard and the work of the late artist
Louise Bourgeois, Ellen has created a space that she invites the viewer to
enter. A space inhabited with memory and reflection. “I’ve always
felt that the viewer was in a plane of their own, outside of the work of art,”
says Hochberg. “They were sort of voyeurs standing in their own
space looking into the space I created. I wanted to invite them
inside the piece and inside the various components of the piece... in the same
way you enter and become part of any other space.” Using drawing,
painting and cloth, she has created an environment that invites the viewer
to explore the poetics of space.
Ellen
received an MA in Studio Art from the NYU. She has exhibited both nationally
and internationally. She teaches art at several area schools and at
Pratt Fine Arts.
For
more information about the artist, please visit www.ellenhochberg.com
Shift Collaborative Studio: Tashiro-Kaplan Arts Complex, 306 S Washington St #105, Seattle WA 98104 | info@shiftstudio.org | © 2008, Shift Collaborative Studio. All artworks © 2010 by their respective authors.
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