ABOUT THE ART
With painting, I use doubt and indecision as resistance to push the paint into forms. The final image is always a blend of discovery and intention. My process is witnessed in the heavily textured surfaces, multiple compositional changes, and in the partially hidden under-layers of each painting with the accumulation of marks becoming suggestive of novel bodyforms or landforms.
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.
