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Ellen Driscoll

Ellen Driscoll

Ellen Driscoll’s work encompasses sculpture, drawing, and public art installation. Recent public installations include "Site Woven" for the Charles R. Jonas federal courthouse in Charlotte, NC, and  “CartOURgraphy” for the International High School and Middle College High School in Long Island City, NY. Earlier works include "Distant Mirrors" for the Providence River, RI,   “The Loophole of Retreat” at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris,  and “As Above, So Below” for Grand Central Terminal, New York.  Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the Rhode Island Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, a Fine Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Outstanding Educator Award from the International Sculpture Center.  Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art.  She is Visiting Professor of Sculpture at Bard College.

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From Here to There

2023

Wood, felt, clay


A small woolen hooded jacket with the edges of maps cut into the hems, hangs on a branch. Maps of all the continents of the world fall from a sleeve and hang on the opposite end of the branch. A fragment of a woolen blanket cut into the map of an urban plan hangs from the branch behind these maps. A bird, perspectively small, as if seen from a great distance, overlooks the maps below.

The sculpture presents the viewer with a freeze frame of an absent figure temporarily in stasis during a larger transit. The one to one scale of the child size jacket is juxtaposed with the great distances of the entire world, seen in miniature in the continental maps cut out of felt. The plan of the unnamed city, also cut out of the woolen felt, suggests both a blanket, and a potential destination within the larger scale of the cascading world maps. The sculpture holds these micro and macro scale juxtapositions in suspension—in between departure and arrival.

Photography credit: Etienne Frossard