Ellen Sweetland-Bradshaw

Ellen Bradshaw's work was influenced by the realism of the Ashcan painters of the 1910-30's, as well as the sense of color and atmosphere explored by the Impressionists.

Ellen's usual subject is New York City. "I'm drawn to the common everydayness of life in the city, and perhaps what is hidden just beneath the surface of the ordinary. The reflective moody quirky streets of Lower Manhattan are my usual subjects - the neighborhoods, the personalities of her buildings, the majesty of her bridges, the streets transformed by snow or the colors of night, the lone figures of daily routine, the everyday intensity of the simple passing of moments against that in-your-face reality that is New York City."

BFA Pratt Institute

Solo Exhibitions
2019 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "Sunrise From the Artist's Balcony"
2017 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "Circling Manhattan"
2016 Pleiades Gallery, New York, "Up on the Roof"
2014 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "From the High Line"
2013 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "Ode to the Brooklyn Bridge"
2011 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "4 Seasons in the West Village"
2010 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "Snow Day, Lower Manhattan"
2008 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, “Heading Home, Keuka Lake”
2007 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "Night Colors Manhattan"
2006 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "Winter in New York"
2006 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "A Farewell Tribute to the Fulton Fish Market"
2004 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "New York Haunts"
2003/2004 A Taste of Art, New York, NY, "Night Moods"
2002/2003 Andrews Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Work"
2002 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "City Snow"
2002 Citibank Financial Center, New York, NY, "From Lower Manhattan"
2001 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "From the Artist's Balcony"
2000-2011 Tavern on Jane, New York, NY, "The Neighborhood"
2000 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY, "Ne...