Ellen Koment's curriculum vitae.
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ELLEN KOMENT
Born in New York City, and studying at the High School of Music and Art, and then at Cooper Union Art School, she learned to combine the energy of the abstract expressionists with the exactitude of the Albers theories of color. At graduate school at U.C. Berkeley, she was influenced by the California Figure Painter's love of large, light-filled planes. In the early 80's, she first came to New Mexico as a resident at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. Repeated trips to the southwest ensued until she moved here almost 10 years ago. Since that move, her interest has moved increasingly towards Wax Encaustic until, in the last seven years, she has used it almost exclusively. She has been teaching for 20 years, first at Santa Rosa Junior College in Northern California, and now at the University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Community College. She offers private workshops in Wax Encaustic.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS Waxlander Gallery, Encaustic Paintings, Santa Fe, NM 2004 Helix Gallery, Encaustic Paintings, Santa Fe, NM 2000 Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 Cynthia Woody Gallery, Scottsdale, AR, January 1997 Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996 Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1995 Vita Gallery, Portland, OR 1994 Shapiro Jameson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991 Pheonix College Art Gallery, Phoenix, AR 1991 J. Noblett Gallery, Sonoma, CA 1990, 1988, 1987 Clatsop College Gallery, Astoria, OR 1987 Piper Sonoma, Healdsburg, CA 1986 Solano College Gallery, Fairfield, CA 1984 The Annex Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA 1983 |
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Represented in Santa Fe by: Waxlander Gallery |
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One of Santa Fe's best known Encaustic artists, Ellen Koment's paintings reflect her love of the Light and Land of New Mexico as well as of the richness and vibrancy of color which encaustic enhances.