Shawn Ehlers

New York, NY, United States

About Shawn Ehlers

Shawn Ehlers is a former Ford/Elite model who lived and worked in Milan, Paris and New York before getting behind the lens. Photographed by well-known photographers as Helmut Newton, Olivero Toscani and Albert Watson, her shift behind the camera was an easy transition. She gave models movement and posing directions familiar to her, helping launch successful commercial and fashion careers. Also working as a celebrity shooter for Wireimage and Getty Images, some of her roster includes: Lady Gaga, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, President’s Bush and Clinton, Susan Sarandon, and Whoopie Goldberg. As a fine artist she won the prestigious gold award in 2015, Prix de la Photographie (PX3) for her series, “Women as Birds”. She combines the medium of Polaroid photography with the ancient art of encaustic wax.

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Artist Statement
I’ve come back to my roots with photography, shooting exclusively with various Polaroid cameras. I find the film produces a magic image which scanned during the development of the photo is then printed using watercolor textured archival paper and ink. Typically there are several layers of encaustic wax that are brushed on and manipulated with a palette knife to get the surface I desire. The art of encaustic wax began in ancient Greece, initially applied to the hulls of ships with pigment and eventually made it’s way to both easel painting and sculpture.
There is a luminosity and dimensionality with the application of encaustic wax.

Exhibitions:

2009 Mercantile Exchange-"Shell Series"

2015 Wellman Farms- "Women as BIrds" and "Water"
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2016 Architectural Digest Show NYC- "Water" and "Women as Birds"

2016 Red Filter Gallery

2017 Architectural DIgest Show NYC- "Remember the Water"

2017 Black Swan Gallery Sag Harbor, NY

2017 Architectural Digest Show NYC-"Remember the Water"

2017 Black Swan Gallery in Sag Harbor

Shawn Ehlers

About Shawn Ehlers

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