ABOUT THE ART
In painting, I embrace doubt and indecision not as obstacles, but as forces that resist certainty, shaping the emerging forms. My process balances discovery and intention, unfolding through heavily textured surfaces, multiple compositional shifts, and repetitive mark-making. My work suggests ambiguous bodyforms or shifting landscapes, exploring moments of transition—places like the mouth of a river or the threshold of a forest, where one space dissolves into another.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ellen Burgin is an artist who works in a variety of mediums on paper and canvas. Burgin’s paintings can be found in the permanent collections of The Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama and the Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana. She exhibits her work nationwide and was most recently selected by juror, April Gornik, for inclusion in the First Street Gallery National Juried show in November 2024 as well as Four Artists:A Closer Look, opening at First Street Gallery on December 5th 2024. Burgin is the recipient of several grants and awards for her work, including a Wake County Regional Artist grant and a Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency grant. She received a BFA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and attended graduate school at Louisiana State University on a teaching scholarship where she received her MFA. Born and raised in Marion, North Carolina, a small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Burgin has called San Francisco home since 2006.
