Bio
Angela Ellsworth is an interdisciplinary artist traversing disciplines of drawing, installation and performance. Within these disciplines she is interested in art merging with everyday life and public and private experiences colliding in unexpected spaces. She is Assistant Professor of Intermedia in the Herberger College of the Arts at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona where she teaches Intermedia Performance and other interdisciplinary art practices.
She has received Grants and Fellowships including a 2007 Artist Project Grant from Arizona Commission on the Arts and a 2002 Visual and Media Arts Fellowship from Arizona Commission on the Arts, Contemporary Forum Materials Grant from Phoenix Art Museum, Art Matters Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, New Forms Regional Initiative Grants from DiverseWorks, Mexi-Arte and The Painted Bride Art Center in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation.
In 2008 she presents a durational performance-based drawing for Depicting Action at the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, Scotland and is working on a performance-based Temporary Public Art project for the City of Glendale in Arizona. In 2007 Ellsworth’s work was included in the exhibition Drawing Outside the Lines at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona. Her video, Hot Air was included in 700IS International Experimental Film and Video Festival in Egilsstadir, Iceland and won the “Award of the Festival” in 2007.
Ellsworth is represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and her work is cited and reviewed in Art in America, Art News, Performance Research and ArtUS. When Ellsworth isn’t working on solo projects she collaborates with her partner, Tania Katan, walking love rings on maps while wearing six-inch fringe. They teach a walking, writing and drawing workshop in Italy this summer entitled Topography of Memory. For information on this workshop please visit their website at www.twolittlewishbones.com or for more information on Ellsworth’s work visit www.aellsworth.com.