Ellen Wiener

I use content from verse, theology, science, science-fiction and history in paintings,prints and artists books. My work explores landscape with an emphasis on botany and geology. Plants, rocks and fossils act both as calendars and clocks; they embody past time and our very active participation in the present. Their systems, if we look carefully, are keys and classrooms.

Ellen Wiener’s work can be found in public collections at The Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian, Staats Bibliothek- Berlin, Yale University, Smith College Museum, Hood Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Albright-Knox Museum, The Rosenwald Collection, Reed College, Swarthmore College, Washington University, Maslow Collection, Bainbridge Museum, Faculty positions include appointments at Princeton, Dartmouth, Sarah Lawrence. Writer’s Institute, Stony Brook SUNY, Queens CUNY, University of New Mexico, Suffolk Community College, St Mary’s College, Sweet Briar College, LSU. She has studied at; The Royal Botanical Society at Kew London UK, The New York Botanical Garden, The Morgan Library-Rare Books School of the University of Virginia,The Center for Book Arts, Queens College CUNY & Bennington College.