Ellen Berkenblit

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Ellen Berkenblit, Wilkie Sound, 2022, oil on linen, 76 x 90 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Tincture of a Bouquet, 2022, oil on linen, 89 x 76 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, A Pink Stripe, 2022, oil on linen, 76 x 92 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Umberville, 2022, oil on linen, 54 x 76 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Walking in the Rays of a Beautiful Sun, 2022, oil on linen, 88 x 61 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Marshmallow Punch, 2022, oil on linen, 58 x 44 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Little Leopard, 2022, oil on linen, 20 x 30 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Flora, 2022, oil on linen, 88 x 61 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Trombonium, 2022, oil on linen, 76 x 58 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Tiger in Library, 2022, oil on linen, 110 x 76 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Lumivores, 2022, oil on linen, 76 x 114 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Systems Go, 2022, oil on linen, 90 x 62 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Chart of Lorraine, 2022, oil on linen, 44 x 58 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, Untitled, 2020, gouache and graphite on paper, 22 x 15 inches, 25 x 18 inches, framed.

Ellen Berkenblit, Bird in Garden, 2020, gouache and graphite on paper, 30 x 22 inches, 33 x 25 inches, framed.

Ellen Berkenblit, Striped Taffeta Ribbon, 2020, gouache and graphite on paper, 30 x 44 inches.

Ellen Berkenblit, The Green Trunk, 2019, oil on linen, 91 x 76 inches

Ellen Berkenblit, V Is For You, 2019, oil on linen, 10 x 8 inches

Ellen Berkenblit, Pink Trucks, 2015, oil and charcoal on linen, 65 x 76 inches

BIO

b.1958

Ellen Berkenblit is an influential Contemporary painter, known for her colorful, gestural paintings of women and animals. Often working in large-scale and in oil paint, a recurring motif in Berkenblit’s work is a magical female protagonist, frequently depicted as a cartoonish women in profile, with long lashes, rosy cheeks, and wild hair. Berkenblit had her first solo exhibition in 1984, and has since gone on to have solo shows at Anton Kern Gallery in New York, Michael Benevento in Los Angeles, TBA Gallery in Chicago, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery in Detroit, and Charim Klocker Gallery in Vienna, among others.

Born in Paterson, NJ, Berkenblit went on to receive her BFA from Cooper Union in 1980. Her work can be found in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, the Cincinnati Art Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She is also the recipient a 2014 Guggenheim fellowship.

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