Catch & release #30
Ink, acrylic and embossing on paper (mounted on wood panel) 44” x 30” 2022
Catch & release #31
Ink, acrylic and embossing on paper (mounted on wood panel) 44” x 30” 2022
Catch & release #32
Ink, acrylic and embossing on paper (mounted on wood panel) 44” x 30” 2022
Morphic topographies #5
Ink and embossing on canvas, on paper (framed) 30” x 22” 2021
Morphic topographies #6
Ink and embossing on canvas, on paper (framed) 30” x 22” 2021
Morphic topographies #7
Ink and embossing on canvas, on paper (framed) 30” x 22” 2021
Morphic topographies #8
Ink and embossing on canvas, on paper (framed) 30” x 22” 2021
Morphic topographies #9
Ink and embossing on canvas, on paper (framed) 30” x 22” 2021
Rust magnitudes
Ink, acrylic and embossing on paper (framed in white) 30” x 22” 2022
Resonance Part Two
Ink, acrylic, and embossing on canvas 4 ft. x 12 ft. (three canvases) 2022
Morphic topographies #10
Ink and embossing on canvas, on paper (framed) 30” x 22” 2021
Shoals
Ink, acrylic, and charcoal on canvas 7 ft. x 5 ft. 2021
SUNDIAL SEGMENTS
Ink, pastel and embossing on paper (framed in white) 44” x 30” 2022
Interference Blues: No. 5
Ink, acrylic and pastel on canvas 5 x 7 ft 2022
Unearthed
Ink, acrylic and pastel on canvas 6 x 5 ft 2022
Artist Biography
Ellie Fritz is a full time artist who lives and works in Marin County, CA. She received her BFA in 2004 and her MFA in 2008 from the San Francisco Art Institute. Fritz produces works on paper and panel that combine various printmaking techniques with painting and drawing. Her works evolve through processes of physical interactions working with the weight of impression and the levity of erasure. Fritz explores and pushes the boundaries of unexpected materials in her work. Recently using mundane utilitarian building materials, and dry pigment made from collected incense ash to provide the tiniest hint of color, which interacts with formal elements at play. Fritz’s simple compositions rely on the tension between positive and negative space. The ways in which paper responds to materials such as paint and charcoal allows for a sensibility of improvisation and blurs the boundaries between strength and vulnerability.
In 2008, Fritz began working as an artist-in-residence at KALA Art Institute where she continues her printmaking studio practice today. In addition to her studio practice, Fritz has taught through extension programs in San Francisco, including ACE at SFAI, and taught printmaking as a visiting artist at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. She has exhibited work in solo and group shows across the country including San Francisco, CA, Novato, CA, Berkeley, CA, Sacramento, CA, New York, NY, Birmingham, AL, and Dallas, TX to name a few.
