Ellen Mueller

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Body + Camera Festival in Chicago

by Ellen Mueller on April 2, 2019, no comments

The Body + Camera Festival has reached its final city: Chicago! After previously visiting New Jersey City and Miami, the works can now be seen at the Chicago Cultural Center. Crunching, a video piece made during a residency at Playa Artist Residency in Oregon, is set on the edge of a lake that dries up every summer due […]

Body + Camera Festival in Miami

by Ellen Mueller on March 9, 2019, no comments

Crunching, a video piece made during a residency at Playa Artist Residency in Oregon, is set on the edge of a lake that dries up every summer due to commercial irrigation. It depicts various textures that, while appealing, also reflect a strained relationship between natural processes and human exploitation. This work will be featured in […]

Body + Camera Festival in New Jersey City

by Ellen Mueller on January 19, 2019, no comments

Crunching, a video piece made during a residency at Playa Artist Residency in Oregon, is set on the edge of a lake that dries up every summer due to commercial irrigation. It depicts various textures that, while appealing, also reflect a strained relationship between natural processes and human exploitation. This work will be featured in […]

Things That Go in Boxes – at ‘gift’ exhibition

by Ellen Mueller on February 10, 2018, no comments

Fun news: Things That Go in Boxes, one of my collages made during my residency at Playa, will be included in the upcoming exhibition, gift, at Berry College. The title of the show borrows from issues discussed in Lewis Hyde’s book, The Gift, in which he compares the reception of an artwork to that of a gift that is […]

Body + Camera Festival in New Jersey

by Ellen Mueller on January 19, 2018, no comments

Crunching, a video piece made during a residency at Playa Artist Residency in Oregon, is set on the edge of a lake that dries up every summer due to commercial irrigation. It depicts various textures that, while appealing, also reflect a strained relationship between natural processes and human exploitation. This work will be featured in […]