Discipline: Visual Art

Tori Ellison

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989, 1990
Tori Ellison is a visual artist and is a mid-Atlantic region NEA finalist and sculptor who has designed five of The Fisher Ensemble’s operas, most recently Monticello Wakes, whose Los Angeles world premiere featured her bronze sculpture Self Evident (for Sally Hemings), commissioned by the city of Inglewood, CA. Tori has exhibited her work in 11 states and abroad, including at the Portland Art Museum Biennial, the Bellevue Art Museum Annual, Paris Gibson Square Museum, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, New York’s PaineWebber Art Gallery, Winston Wachter Gallery, China’s Shenzhen Art Institute, and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, in a show curated by Andy Warhol Museum Director Thomas Sokolowski. Her work is in the collections of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, Jordan Schnitzer, the City of Seattle, Janine Wang (of C.C. Wang Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), and the Portland Art Museum.

Studios

Mixter

Tori Ellison worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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