ELLOUISESTORY GALLERY

Textile Collage Works.

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Ellouise Schoettler works with old fabrics to create compositions of color and texture.

Collage - Playing with Color

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A grouping of collages made from magazine papers.

Balancing - collage - 2009 Series

Eight - collage -
2009 series

Five - collage - 2009 series

Totem - collage - 2009 series

COLOR STUDIES

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Photographs by Ellouise Schoettler
Digitally altered to emphasize color. Photographs were taken in Northern Italy.

Venice - July 2007

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A New Show - February 2007

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Works by Ellouise Schoettler

Hawk Totem, 4" x 6" , marker drawing

Pattern, 4" x 6", marker drawing

Mosaic, 4" x 6", marker drawing

Gold Sky. 4" x 6", marker drawing

Circles, 4" x 6", marker drawing

Blue Pool, 4" x 6", marker drawing

September Show: Mix and Match

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Digital Travel Journal - Each image is a memory!

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso

Red Sky- Digital Print

Watching- Digital Print
Hot Peppers- Digital Print
Emptied- Digital Print

Southern Evening- Digital Print

About the Works:
I use a digital camera for quick sketching then I re-work the images in the computer. I like seeing these images from different locations together. My primary aesthetic concerns are color and light. ellouise schoettler

Red Sky - I love the California Central Coast. This photo was taken near Morro Rock at Moro Bay, CA. where these three threatening towers dominate the skyline.

Ghosts Watching: I cannot resist comfortable rocking chairs. This photo was taken on the front porch of a Cracker Barrel somewhere between North Carolina and Maryland.

Red Peppers: In Jonesborough, TN someone has created a backyard gallery by hanging a collection of found objects on a weathered wooden fence. I liked the contrast of dried red peppers tacked to a wooden window frame which has textured plastic panes.

Emptied: This is one of a collection of birdhouses from that same wall in Jonesborough, TN.

Southern Evening: On an early evening in Jonesborough this swing reminded me of North Carolina Fall evenings when I was growing up.

These prints are $50.00 each (unframed). If you would like to purchase one leave a message in the comments and I will contact you.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

2005-08-28T06:56:00.000-07:00

December
Schoettler Solo Show
Its About Time
A Collage Retrospective
and a new installation to celebrate
Jim and Ellouise Schoettler's 50th Wedding Anniversary
December 2 - December 31, 2005
Gallery 10
Washington, DC

November
Secrets
Gallery 10 Artists
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
November 18 - January 22, 2006

September
Inner Space Show
Gallery 10
Washington, DC

August
Reflections
Venice, Italy
*see write up below

July
Prague Show
*see write up below

Innerspace Show
Gallery 10
Washington, DC

June
Memory and Story
Dadian Gallery
*see write-up below

Dipping Into the Past

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Woman

Falling Stars

Pear Over Water

Layers 2

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way -- things I had no words for.” Georgia O'Keeffe

As I move into my new studio I have been looking through piles of old work.
Collages I have made over the last 25 years ago.
The works remind me who I was at different times. How I felt. What I was thinking about. They are more than an album; they are snapshots of my "self".
There are surprises in those memories and in the art itself.
(Click on each image for a larger view.)

REFLECTION on a California Waterscape

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May 2005
Huntington Harbor, CA

Early in the morning,
Water is a looking glass
Reflecting it all.
A plane overhead
Is the only movement.

On the way to Marco Polo?

I started photographing reflections in the 1970s. Why select this one?
Lately I have been yearning to be in Venice. This is the closest I have been able to swing this summer. California is wonderful - but no substitute for Venezia.

VENICE EXHIBITION

2005-08-06T06:14:00.000-07:00

REFLECTIONS
Gallery 10 Artists
August 25 - September 15, 2005
Venezia Viva Gallery
Venice, Italy

In these works,Reflections I and II, I recollaged earlier works to reflect on the compositions and to manipulate the spatial elements of the works as a means to create new works.
Ellouise Schoettler

PRAGUE SHOW

2005-07-06T06:12:00.000-07:00

Gallery 10 Artists Travel
June 16 - August 25, 2005
The Art Factory
Prague
The Czech Republic

Artist Statement

“War Isn’t the Way” is conceived as a hanging book.
The flow of images suggests a story narrative.
The images are my photographs or collages which I scanned and manipulated in the computer
In this piece I combine my work as a visual artist with my work as a storyteller. Ellouise Schoettler

MEMORY AND STORY

2005-06-14T06:15:00.000-07:00

Dadian Show
June 13 – July 29, 2005
Dadian Gallery
Washington, DC

Memory and Story
Curator’s Statement

In the works in this exhibition, Ellouise Schoettler remembers her mother as a young war bride, and later, as an old woman with failing memory, in digital prints laminated in long strips of multiple, alternative visions; and in not-quite-crazy quilts made out of old clothes. Schoettler’s manipulated photographs and the stories which accompany them speak of time and loss, of change and continuity, of hope and sorrow.

Her quilts, made of narrow strips of cloth stitched into loose, squarish spirals of color, echo the repetitive columns of the similar-yet-different prints. In both forms, it is not the individual image that is precious, but rather the cumulative effect of multiple visions, suggesting a reality beyond what is seen at first glance.

In "Memory and Story " Ellouise Schoettler shares a piece of her privater past, filtered through an inner light that illuminates a broader more communal meaning. With scraps of fabric and old photographs Schoettler invites us to consider our own lives and those of our ancestors. She reminds us that memories and stories make us who we are.
Deborah Sokolove
irector, Dadian Gallery