Ellen Wiener

Independent Artist, USA

Abstract

My Histogram of the Telescope

This poster illustrates my expanding drawing in the form of a frieze suitable for a wall or hallway. The images are pulled from my notebooks/lab books and allude to the development of optical instruments that have radically altered our sense of scale and perspective. The intimate ‘journal-feel’ of my work encompasses commentary drawn from landmarks marking the cultural shifts that accompany such technological advances. Astronomy, botanical studies, mythology and notions from theology and theoretical science are densely layered in a narrative ‘walk’ that accompanies personal re-orientation in a constant flow of changing cosmologies.

Biographical Details

Ellen Wiener is a painter and printmaker. Faculty positions include appointments at Princeton University, Dartmouth College and CUNY. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Art News and Art Forum.

Her innovative panoramic books and drawings have been shown recently at The Parrish Art Museum, San Francisco Public Library The Minnesota Centre for the Book Arts, The University of Washington and The University of Iowa, as well as accompanying the round table discussion TIME at The Philoctetes Centre in New York.