Ellen Gibbs Concrete Sculpture Mixed Media Sculpture

Sculpture by Ellen Gibbs

Artist's Statement
Bio
Resume
Contact Artist
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*NFS=Not For Sale
*POR=Price on Request

The Original Smokin' Monkey
carved concrete with chinaberry stick
15" high
$170
Also shown:
tile-topped table
18" x 12" x 12"
$90.

Big-head Planter
cast and carved concrete; agave plant
Head 20" tall, or 33" with plant
$140

Maori Birdbath
carved concrete
30" high; bowl 17" diameter
$200

Easter Islander
built-up concrete
41" x 10" x 10"
$150

Chac-Mool
built-up concrete
24" x 22" x 12"
$250

Ganesh and Admirers
(sold separately)
cast concrete
Ganesh 12" tall, $35.00
Smaller critters $15 each

Artist's Statement

My current influences include pre-Columbian Latin America, Polynesia, Hindu deities, and the pop culture of the United States and Mexico. My work has been characterized as figurative but primitive, and celebrates both the beauty of nature and the beauty of that which is not natural at all.

Methods include direct carving of cast concrete blocks, modeling concrete upon armatures (often incorporating such objects as sticks and saw blades), and casting figures from hand-made molds. The concrete used in the pieces is comprised of Portland cement and a wide variety of aggregates including peat moss, seashells, marble dust, metal filings, vermiculite, and dirt.

Artist's Biography

I was born in Austin in 1954 and grew up in nearby Georgetown. I returned to Austin in 1973 to pursue happiness and a liberal arts degree at the University of Texas. I have supported myself through the years with a variety of library and proofreading jobs.

Resume

Having received no formal artistic training, I have worked in diverse media, including paper-maché (for much of the 90s my paper-maché masks were available at the gift shop of Women and Their Work Gallery in downtown Austin), oil and acrylic paints (several of my paintings have been appropriated by local bands for covers of their CDs), computer-based graphic art, and concrete, my current medium of preference.

Selected exhibitions and honors:
2001-Nuestras Tradiciones, exhibition of mesoamerican-themed work at Mexic-Arte Museum and Gallery in Austin.
2000-Real Art for Real People, juried TSOS members' show, Julia C. Butridge Gallery in Austin
1999-Divine Art Auction, Mexic-Arte
1998-awarded "Best Yard Art" by the Austin Chronicle.

Contact Artist

Ellen Gibbs
P. O. Box 3272
Austin, Texas 78764 (USA)

Also, please visit Ellen's Web site: http://grackle.net/

Texas Society of Sculptors
P. O. Box 49291
Austin, Texas (USA) 78765-9291
www.tsos.org