Ellen Carey

Ellen Carey (b. NYC, NY) a Pictures Generation contemporary/member of Buffalo’s avant-garde with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo, upends the medium's collective histories in lens-based art, photography, and technology with her abstract, minimal “picture” signs.

"Photography Degree Zero" (1996-2023) in Polaroid 20 X 24 and "Struck by Light" (1988-2023) in Photogram name her dual practices; "Pictus and Writ" finds writing with published essay on: Man Ray, Sol LeWitt, Anna Atkins, plus her own work.

Royal Photographic Society (RPS) named Carey one of the top 100 women photographers worldwide (2018) - Hundred Heroines - www.hundredheroines.org - one of 14 Americans; RPS/HH sponsored her lecture - PHOTO London -2019 (www.photolondon.org).

Solo Exhibits - 2023/2024: "Light Struck" at Fox Talbot Museum with 220,000 visitors and a parallel solo "Struck by Light" at New Britain Museum of American Art -www.nbmaa.org

Ellen Carey lives/works/teaches as Associate Professor of Photography at Hartford Art School/UH in Connecticut, writing/research as an independent scholar and guest curator with 70 one -person exhibits and several hundred group ones.

www.ellencareyphotography.com

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