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505-344-4535
Ellen Kesten
“When the moment comes, it is in the act of moving away.
“In New Mexico we feel the moving away of time every day, that passion of beauty and grief when high clouds collide with bright light and dark mountains. Even as we watch, the brilliance changes, fades, leaving us with memory and inexpressible longing. This shifting of light, color and pattern, is my inspiration. These paintings are impressionistic and also recognizably here — high desert, New Mexico at its highest, deepest, most powerfully vivid.”
“As an artist my intent is to paint fluidly, moving quickly to catch that light, that phrase of cloud on desert floor, until the moment is gone.”
— Ellen Kesten
Solo Exhibition
- New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, 2007
Juried Shows
- Inpost Artspace, Albuquerque, NM 1999
- South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM 1998
- Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID 1992
- Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR 1983
- National Museum of Ornamental Metalwork, New Orleans, LA 1981
Galleries
- Cibola Arts Council, Grants, NM 1997-1998
- Blue-Eyed Indian Bookshop, Laguna, NM 1991-1997
- Iron Horse Design, Albuquerque, NM 2000-2003
- Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 2004
Public Collections
- New Mexico Arts, Art in Public Places, Santa Fe, NM 1996
- British Museum, London, England 1982
- Archived pen and ink drawings; New Guinea collection
Education
- Fine Arts
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA - Metalsmithing
University Of Oregon, Eugene, OR - Painting
Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR