Brad Ellis

BRAD ELLIS BIO


Brad Ellis is a mid-career, Dallas based artist whose focus is on abstract painting. He has continually experimented with imagery from tightly rendered, systematic patterns to loosely composed, expressionistic compositions. Consistent features of his paintings are his interests in color, form, surface treatments and the pure physicality of paint and various collage elements. He has distinguished his career by embracing the ancient medium of encaustic which is hot wax painting and is a process by which heated bees wax is mixed with pigments and applied to board or canvas and then fused to the surface with a heat source.

Brad earned his BFA from the University of Tulsa and his work is represented by several art galleries in the U.S. His paintings are displayed in many prominent private and corporate collections throughout the country. As well, his work is featured in two new books, Texas Abstract, Modern + Contemporary, published by Fresco Books and Encaustic Art In The Twenty-First Century, published by Schiffer.

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, The University of Tulsa

Brad Ellis
American, b. 1958

One Person Exhibitions

2016 Cacophonies Of Color, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

2014 Textures and Gestures: Intertwined, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

2013 Line, Form and Color: Harmonic Convergence, Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2012 The Organic Line, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

2011 Rhyme, Chance and Circumstance, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

2009 Pattern, Rhythm and Process, Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2008 Linear Compositions, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

2007 Brad Ellis: New Work, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

2006 Brad Ellis: Inaugural Show, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

2003 Abstract Renderings, Mary Bell Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000 Brad Ellis: New Work, Metropolitan Gallery, Austin, TX

1996 Brad Ellis: Recent Work, Boyd Levinson Gallery, Dallas, TX