This is Ellen Phelan, I saw some of her paintings this past spring at the Gasser Grunet gallery in Chelsea. Although most of her paintings are pretty conventional as far as subject matter, Phelan's approach and method uses the effects of photography with painting and explores them using layers and graphic details, which generate feelings of memory or nostalgia. Phelan's work successfully exhibits a use of multiple media that ultimately defines her subject matter through this process. Also because this subject matter is linked to ideas of memory it acknowledges the significance of communication, or perhaps more of a disconnection in cognizance in her case. For my own purposes her work is important because I was initially attracted to the formal aspects of her work, and through that I discovered that her process also wonderfully accomplishes the same techniques I have been considering.
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