StARTers with Ellen Driscoll

American artist Ellen Driscoll's work encompasses sculpture, drawing, and public art installation. Recent large scale installations include “Distant Mirrors” for the Providence River, “FastForwardFossil #2” at Smack Mellon, and “Revenant” and “Phantom Limb” for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan. Earlier works include “The Loophole of Retreat” at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, “As Above, So Below” for Grand Central Terminal (a suite of 20 mosaic and glass images for the tunnels at 45th, 47th, and 48th Streets), “Catching the Drift”, a restroom (un bagno) for the Smith College Museum of Art, and “Wingspun” for the International Arrivals corridor at Raleigh Durham airport. 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 LEF Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art.

Picture: “Distant Mirrors”, 2011, by Ellen Driscoll with Rose Heydt, Dianne Hebbert, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, Megan McLaughlin