Ellen Garvens is a Professor of Art at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her work has pushed photography into the realms of drawing, sculpture, and disability studies. In all the work there is an attention to perception and disorientation. In recent work she creates large set-ups to photograph as well as short videos highlighting simple acts that fool the eye. In all the work photography is approached in combination with other mediums to question and extend its possibilities, process, and definition.
Garvens received a B.S. in Art at the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. She has received a Fulbright–Hayes Scholarship, National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship Grant, and an Artist Trust /Washington State Fellowship. The January 2009 Issue of Contact Sheet, published by Light Work Galley in Syracuse, NY is dedicated to her work. Her work has been included in photography historian Geoffrey Batchen’s Each Wild Idea, and Visual Studies magazine. She is in the collections of the Allen Memorial Museum of Art in Oberlin, OH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The New Mexico Museum of Art, The Henry Art Gallery, The Tacoma Art Museum, and The Yale University Art Gallery, among other collections.
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