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As a barometer of the economy, the Melbourne Art Fair reflects healthy local interest and hard times abroad. This year's representation of international
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is dedicated to the idea that art is for everyone. The groundbreaking new exhibition, State of the Art:
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Cars explode on Cockatoo Island, a tank and a stealth jet occupy a harbourside gallery and beehives
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Angela Ellsworth is an interdisciplinary artist traversing disciplines of drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Ellsworth has a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, an MFA from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and she received a fellowship to attend Skowhegan Summer Residency.
Her solo and collaborative work takes in wide-ranging subjects such as physical fitness, endurance, illness, social ritual, and religious tradition. She is interested in art merging with everyday life and public and private experiences colliding in unexpected spaces. Her work has been reviewed in ArtUS, Art News, Fiber Arts, Frieze Art, and Artforum.com, and Performance Research.
She has presented work nationally and internationally including the Getty Center (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, Australia), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow, Scotland), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver, CO), New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ), and Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ) to name a few. Her most recent project, the Plural Wife Project, has received international and national attention and was included in the Biennale of Sydney in 2010. In 2014 she launched the Museum of Walking (MoW) in a 10’ x 12’ space in Arizona.
Awards and grants include Art Matters, Franklin Furnace, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and nominations for USA Fellowship as well as Anonymous Was A Woman Award. She was a Visiting Research Fellow through Jane Franklin Hall at University of Tasmania, Australia and has received regional grants such as Arizona Commission on the Arts Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts Visual and Media Arts Fellowship, and a Contemporary Art Society Award from the Tucson Museum of Art. Ellsworth’s collaboration with Tina Takemoto garnered grants from the Inter-Arts Program of the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, from Mexic-Arte Museum, and DiverseWorks, funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation.
She is represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona and Fehily Contemporary in Melbourne, Australia.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
