VERMILION 3
The color vermilion continues to preoccupy me. This series on paper begins with a painted vermilion form on which I draw using white transfer paper (like carbon paper, but white), further developing a visual vocabulary, limiting the media while expanding the language. Acrylic and transfer pigment on paper, 2016, 2019.
The work was shown in 2019 as large archival pigment prints, ranging from 5’ x 5’ to 5’ x 22’, at Desai Matta Gallery, San Francisco and at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. See images below. Hover for captions.
Exhibits:
VERMILION | ELLEN ZIEGLER Solo exhibit, 2019. Curated by Deirdre Visser at Desai Matta Gallery,
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, 2019.
DEPARTURES and ARRIVALS: Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA.
Artists in Abstraction Curated by Greg Robinson, 2019.
VERMILLION | VERMILION Solo exhibit, Vermillion Gallery, Seattle WA, 2018
OUT OF SIGHT King Street Station, concurrent with Seattle Art Fair 2016
STUDIO VISIT: Ellen Ziegler Solo exhibit, SOIL Gallery, Seattle WA, 2016
Essay by curator Deirdre Visser, Desai Matta Gallery, San Francisco.
Press for Studio Visit:
Vanguard Seattle
Press for Vermillion | Vermilion:
Seattle Times
Vanguard Seattle
City Arts
Vermilion Triptych 2, 3 - 5’ x 7’ digital prints. Desai Matta Gallery, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, 2019. Curated by Deirdre Visser. Photo: Sharon Beals
View of Vermilion Triptych III, 3 - 5’ x 7’ digital prints. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA. 2019
Curated by Greg Robinson.
Right: Vermilion Triptych III, 3 - 5’ x 7’ digital prints. Back wall: Untitled (Vermilion 2), acrylic, white pigment on paper,
30” x 22”. Desai Matta Gallery, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, 2019. Curated by Deirdre Visser. Photo: Sharon Beals
Guillermo Gómez-Peña performing during Vermilion at the Desai Matta Gallery, California Institute of Integral Studies.
Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, radical pedagogue, Public Citizen & activist against all borders. an Intellectual Coyote (Nanabush)… fighting colonialism since 1492, and the Artistic Director of the international arts organization La Pocha Nostra. A hero of mine. I can now die happy.