Ellen Harvey

Ellen Harvey (* 1967 in Farnborough , Kent , Great Britain ) is a British artist.

Life

Harvey graduated from Harvard College in 1989 and Yale Law School in 1993 . She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (1990). Ellen Harvey participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the PS1 National Studio Program .

Harvey lives and works in Brooklyn , New York.

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Ellen Harvey's work includes installations , video works, street art projects and painting . The focus is on a reflected examination of the social and theoretical demands placed on art and the artist. The artist asks questions about the meaning of the artist's subject, about fear of failure, about social dichotomies and about the meaning and effect of art in social space.

Ellen Harvey uses traditional aesthetic and artistic means in surprising ways to question the social or physical environment of the work of art. The artist describes her goal as “to seduce people into thinking”. Much of Harvey's major installation work can be understood as institutional criticism. They try to visualize the wishes or contradictions that are implied in certain situations and to sharpen the view of the usual processes.

One of her first projects for which the artist received a lot of attention was the New York Beautification Project . Between 1999 and 2001 she used oil paints to paint small, romantic landscapes directly over the graffiti in New York .

For the Bad Boy Klimt project from 2002, she covered the Vienna Secession building with graffiti, which she connected to a Beethoven frieze by Gustav Klimt . For A Whitney for the Whitney at Philip Morris (2003), Ellen Harvey designed an approx. 24 m collage from the pictures from the catalog of the Whitney Museum of American Art collection .

Mirror installation

In 2005, Ellen Harvey was awarded the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts scholarship and created Mirror - an installation of hand-engraved, backlit mirrors and accompanying videos. Together they create a 360-degree picture that shows the famous entrance to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as a ruin .

For The Irreplaceable Cannot be Replaced , Ellen Harvey asked people to send her the recordings or descriptions of things they lost in Hurricane Katrina . The artist blindly selected 12 contributions and painted them. The paintings and all descriptions were exhibited in the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center and given to the participants at the end of the exhibition.

The series I am a Disaster from 2006 consists of mirrors with images of the disaster engraved. Newly erected high-rise buildings are presented in the aesthetic of the ruins that were so popular with painters of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Harvey was inducted into the 2008 Whitney Biennial , where she exhibited her installation Museum of Failure and showed a site-specific video and performance piece titled 100 Visitors to the Biennial Immortalized . To do this, she painted portraits of visitors for 15 minutes . They then had to fill out a questionnaire on the quality of these portraits.

The most recent projects focus on the clichés of traditional art production. For the work Observations Concerning the Picturesque , Ellen Harvey designed a guide for Citadel Park, which surrounds the SMAK museum (in Gent, Belgium). She has depicted the views of the park as if they had been constructed according to the rules of picturesque beauty in landscape painting, which were formulated in the extremely popular handbooks on English landscape painting by William Gilpin (1724–1804).

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In the Nudist Museum (2010) project , Ellen Harvey dedicates herself to the subject of nudity and copies all nudes from the Bass Museum of Art . Little attention is paid to the surrounding details, so that the body comes to the fore. The artist hung the pictures over the contemporary nude photos from the internet.

In the project Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington DC (2013) the artist moves into the future in thousands of years, where the earth is nothing more than an empty desert. She designs a travel guide for extraterrestrial tourists, explaining various architectural elements of Washington, DC and objects from these buildings and speculating about their functions.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2017 Nostalgia , Danese / Corey, New York
• 2015 The Museum of Ornamental Leaves and Other Monochromatic Collections , Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
• 2015 Metal Painting , The Barnes Foundation , Philadelphia
• 2014 Ellen Harvey. The Unloved , Groeningemuseum , Brugge
• 2013 The Alien Guide to the Ruins of Washington DC , Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• 2012 Arcade / Arcadia , Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
• 2010 Picturesque Pictures , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
• 2010 The Nudist Museum , Bass Museum, Miami
• 2009 Ruins are More Beautiful , Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowsky Castle, Warsaw
• 2008 The Museum of Failure , Luxe Gallery, New York
• 2006 Bad Mirror , Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
• 2006 Beautiful / Ugly , MagnusMüller, Berlin
• 2005 Mirror , Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , Philadelphia
• 2003 Context is Everything , Müllerdechiara Gallery, Berlin
• 2003 A Whitney for the Whitney at Philip Morris , Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, New York

Solo projects (selection)

• 2015 Arcadia , Museum Kurhaus Kleve
• 2014 Repeat , installation, St. Amalberga Church, Bossuit
• 2012 Ex / Change your Luck , Art Production Fund at the Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas
• 2012 imaginary travels , Amerika Haus , Berlin
• 2011 Museum Show Part 1 , Arnolfini, Bristol
• 2011 Belvedere. Why is Landscape Beautiful? , Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
• 2010 The Forest of Parnassus , University of California , San Francisco
• 2009 Home of the Stars , Yankee Stadium Station, Bronx, NY. Commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit
• 2009 Door , University of California , Parnassus Campus, San Francisco, CA
• 2007 Carpet , Francisco Station, Chicago, IL. Commissioned by CTA Arts in Transit
• 2005 Queens Plaza Subway Station , Long Island City, NY., Look Up Not Down , Mosaic commissioned by MTA, Arts for Transit 1804 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD. Picture Window, Curated by Gary Kachadourian
• 2004 Coney Island, NY., Dreamland Artist Club, Commissioned by Creative Time
• 2001 100 Free Portraits , various locations in New York, NY
• 1999–2001 New York Beautification Project , various locations in New York, NY

Awards (selection)

• 2016 Wivina Demeester Prize for Commissioned Public Art, Belgium John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship CEC Arts Link residency, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2012 Artist in Residence, Art Production Fund at the Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas
• 2010 Public Art Year in Review Award, Public Art Network, Baltimor
• 2007 Pennies From Heaven Grant, The New York Community Trust, New York, NY
• 2004 Award, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
• 2004 Artist in Residence Award ( Florida Atlantic University ), Palm Beach Cultural Council, Palm Beach, FL
• 2004 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Award ( Pennsylvania Academy ), Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, PA
• 2003 In the Public Realm Finalist, New York Public Art Fund, New York, NY
• 2002 Lily Auchincloss Foundation Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
• 2001 Independent Project Grant, Artists Space, New York, NY
• 2000 National Studio Program, PS1 Museum , Long Island
• 1997 Artist's Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
• 1989 Adams House Art Prize, Harvard College , Cambridge, MA

Collections

• Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
• Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Fidelity Investments, New York, NY
• Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
• Hammer Museum , Los Angeles, CA
• Neuberger & Berman, LLC, New York, NY
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art , Philadelphia, PA
• Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NY
• The Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH
• Queens Museum , Long Island City, NY
• Rema Horst Mann Foundation, New York, NY
• Schmidt-Drenhaus Collection, Dresden, Germany
• Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, NY
• Wyspa Institute, Gdańsk, Poland
• The West Collection, Oaks, PA

Web links

• Homepage Ellen Harvey
• Gallery Gebr. Lehmann
• Ellen Harvey at kunstaspekte.de
• BLOUIN ARTINFO: Ellen Harvey Irons Out the Barnes Foundation Collection

Individual evidence

1. ↑ askart.com
2. ↑ Independent study program. 40 years. Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968-2008. ISBN 0-87427-158-4 .
3. ↑ PS1 . PS1. June 16, 2001. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
4. ^ Roberta Smith: New York Beautification Project in the New York Times, 2001 . Nytimes.com. July 27, 2001. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
5. ↑ Secession, www.secession.at, web design: Christina Goestl: Secession . Secession.at. Archived from the original on April 21, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
6. ↑ E-Flux . E-flux. January 20, 2003. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
7. ^ Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts . Pafa.org. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
8. ↑ Mirror . Artbook. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
9. ^ Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans . Cacno.org. March 23, 2008. Archived from the original on October 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
10. ↑ 2008 Whitney Biennial . Whitney.org. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
11. ↑ SMAK: SMAK . Smak.be. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2013. 
12. ↑ Jennifer Coates, Art in America: Ellen Harvey . ellenharvey.info. May 16, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
13. ^ Megan Gambino, Smithsonia: Inside the Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, DC . smithsonianmag.com. July 17, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2015.