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Robert M. Ellis: abstract paintings and drawings
One of Albuquerque’s best-kept secrets is octogenarian Robert M. Ellis. Ellis has made many contributions to our arts community. He worked as Assistant Director and Director at the UNM Art Museum in Albuquerque for seven years. He was a professor at UNM for 23 years and Director of the Harwood Museum in Taos for 12 years. Awards include the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Individual Support of The Arts and a Regents Meritorious Service Medal from UNM. His work is in numerous collections including the Albuquerque Museum, Museum of fine Arts in Santa Fe and the Roswell Museum. Most recently, Ellis was awarded a Wurlitzer Foundation Grant where he will be an artist in residence in Taos for three months. Today, Robert Ellis can be found working in his Nob Hill studio, producing wonderful abstract paintings and drawings. His work can be seen at Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art.
The list of Ellis’ achievements, shows and honors is several pages long - too lengthy to include here.
In September 2008 Robert Ellis will exhibit along with another Local Treasure, Scott Krichau, at Coleman Gallery Contemporary Art. Ellis will exhibit his Post Aegean painting series of columns reduced to abstraction while Krichau will feature new, whimsical, brightly painted steel sculptures from his Objects for Getting Away series. The exhibit opens with an artists reception Friday, September 5, 5-8pm and continues through September 27.
Images from Ellis’ Post-Aegean series and Ellis in his studio
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