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Ellen Carey Photography

American, b. 1952

Ellen Carey is a photographer and lens-based artist whose experimental work spans several decades. Primarily involving abstraction via the manipulation of photographic materials, often without the use of a camera. Carey's work has been the subject of over 50 solo exhibitions, as well as hundreds of group exhibitions worldwide, at venues including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MoMA PS1 in New York City, Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and many others. Carey lives and works in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Artist: Ellen Carey
Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled, Unique photograph. Center panel from larger scale installation. Shot in the 20X24 format. (this measures about 20X20 inches) Ellen Carey, American artist and photographer. Ellen Carey resides in Hartford, Connecticut, and teaches at the Hartford Art School. She holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, and an M.F.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the International Center for Photography, New York and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received many grants from her home state of Connecticut as well as the Massachusetts Council of the Arts, New Works Grant, New York State Federation for Artists Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Arts; Chase Manhattan Bank; Coca Cola Corporation; Fogg Art Museum; George Eastman House; International Center for Photography; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. Some photographers pushed the boundaries of conventional imagery by incorporating the visions of surrealism or futurism into their work. Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, André Kertész, Curtis Moffat and Filippo Masoero were some of the best known artists who produced startling imagery that questioned both reality and perspective. Both during and after World War II photographers such as Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated even our natural world has elements of abstraction embedded in it. Beginning in the late 1970s photographers stretched the limits of both scale and surface in what was then traditional photographic media that had to be developed in a darkroom. Inspired by the work of Moholy-Nagy, Susan Rankaitis first began embedding found images from scientific textbooks into large-scale photograms. By the 1990s a new wave of photographers were exploring the possibilities of using computers to create new ways of creating photographs. Photographers such as Thomas Ruff, Barbara Kasten, Tom Friedman, and Carel Balth were creating works that combined photography, sculpture, printmaking and computer-generated images. Any boundaries that remained between pure artists and pure photographers were eliminated by individuals who worked exclusively in photography but produced only computer-generated images. Among the most well-known of the early 21st century generation were Gaston Bertin...
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1980s Abstract Ellen Carey Photography

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2 Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Pulls Ellen Carey Photograph
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Ellen Carey Unique pair of photo art Polaroid panels Untitled, Red Moire Positive (Polaroid Pulls) Dimensions: H 75" x W 25.5" x D 2" From a series...
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1980s Abstract Ellen Carey Photography

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Negative Pull with Mixed and Offset Pods
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Located in New York, NY
Two Polaroid prints (Unique) Signed, titled, and dated in black ink, verso 58 x 22 inches, each print 58 x 44 inches, overall This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New Yo...
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2010s Abstract Ellen Carey Photography

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