Ellen Wallenstein
Photographer, Book Artist, Retired Professor @ Pratt Institute; School of Visual Arts; retired / Based in Sherman, Connecticut, US
Ellen Wallenstein is a photographer, book artist and retired professor of art, currently living in Sherman, Connecticut..
Photographically she has always worked on long-term documentary projects, visually responding to daily life experiences. .
Since 2020, she has made daily cloth cyanotypes using gravestone rubbings, inherited jewelry, and other heirlooms as well as animal figures, flora and assorted ephemera. In her most recent work she is turning them into prayer flag,s which she sends to her circle of friends. In 2022 she started to document her experiences as an infusion patient at the Danbury Hospital Praxis Cancer Center in Connecticut. In 2024 she is exhibiting her prayer flags and collaborative quilts at the Carter Burden Gallery (see news stories)
She exhibits her photographs and collages at the Carter Burden Gallery in New York City.
A NYFA Photography fellow, her work was nominated for the Eisenstadt Award and the Santa Fe Prize.
Her photographs, zines, and books are in various collections and have been exhibited in the United States and abroad.
https://www.instagram.com/ellen.wallenstein/
https://nyartistscircle.com/artists/ellen-wallenstein
https://www.carterburdengallery.org/ellen-wallenstein
https://magpiesmagazine.com/2023/07/12/an-interview-with-ellen-wallenstein