““In early September, 2020, I made my second trip to Shark’s Ink in Lyons, CO. It was wonderful to be invited back to create another pair of lithographs with Bud Shark and his team, especially because we were able to build upon last years experience. This time around, I endeavored to create a pair of prints that I would never be able to execute as paintings, due to the complexity and small-scale detail of the imagery. Once again, I wanted to take full advantage of the unique characteristics of lithography ink, which is deliciously brilliant and saturated, yet transparent. New Paragraph (not just line break)
My understanding of the lithography process is evolving, which allowed me to build my digital files in a more orderly way than last year. However, my increased experience also gave me license to make decisions that presented new challenges.” .”
Amy Ellingson’s work has been exhibited nationally and in Tokyo, Japan. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and the Artadia Grant to Individual Artists and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Recent group exhibitions include Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture Since 1900 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University. Ellingson’s work is held in various public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and the US Embassies in Algeria and Tunisia. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College and an M.F.A. from CalArts. Her public commission, Untitled (Large Variation), is an 1100 square foot ceramic mosaic mural. It is a permanent installation on view in Terminal 3 at the San Francisco International Airport. Ellingson was Associate Professor of Art at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2000 to 2011 and has served on the Board of Directors at Root Division, a San Francisco nonprofit arts organization, since 2011. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Selected Collections:
The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Paul Allen Collection, Seattle, WA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
City and County of San Francisco, CA
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, CA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
United Sates Embassy, Algeria
United States Embassy, Tunisia
