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Ellen Rebarber is a sculptor. She works with a variety of materials including metal, wood, stone, cement, plaster, clay, and most recently glass. She welds, solders and enjoys making raku clay sculpture. Throughout her adult life, Ellen has taken classes to expand her knowledge in art. Ellen studied under George Segal, the sculptor, who made a profound impression on her work. She learned about form, texture, composition, painting, drawing, art and music. After her retirement from teaching in Highland Park, Ellen enrolled in college art classes at Mason Gross School of Visual Arts at Rutgers University, where she studied with Rudy Serra for sculpture and Peter Callas and Chris Bonner for ceramics. She continues to create new works, combining materials and pushing her limits to express her passion for art. Ellen\u2019s work is in many private collections and she is available for commissions.
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New and different work was my focus in preparing for this show.\u00a0Considering the fact that over many years, I have accumulated a vast number of artistic endeavors, using many different mediums.\u00a0 I always fall\u00a0 in love with the material I am working with at the moment.<\/p>\n
The combining of different media always excites me.<\/p>\n
Working with glass over the past ten years has been a passion for me.\u00a0 The color selection is extremely provocative!\u00a0 I have frequent love affairs with\u00a0 the many types of glass.\u00a0\u00a0Dichroic glass makes my heart really beat quickly.\u00a0\u00a0Patterned glass gives me a jolt and iridescent glass makes me tingle.\u00a0 This\u00a0results in my creative juices really flowing.<\/p>\n
Included is a piece that I made some time ago.\u00a0 It is ceramic, and at that\u00a0time my love was clay.\u00a0 I had the fortune to work large and use different\u00a0types of firing techniques.\u00a0 With the availability of electric and gas kilns, I was able to expand on\u00a0 the methods of firing. This piece is an example of<\/p>\n
Raku.<\/p>\n
The Totem Pole is also new for me.\u00a0 This large one is titled, \u201cRetrospective\u00a0Totem\u201d.\u00a0 Each of the components selected for this new sculpture represent\u00a0an experience in a lifetime of exploring new materials. Every piece\u00a0represents a form I love, and how it was used previously.<\/p>\n
My goal for this piece was to create a new work of art to represent the ways\u00a0I have worked in the past. The entire process was enjoyable. The weeks of\u00a0decision making, planning and looking for balance and flow, putting in and\u00a0removing, all the problem solving that goes into creating a new piece.\u00a0 And\u00a0Oh! What joy, when I put the final touches on and stepped back, all my<\/p>\n
memories there!<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Hamilton Street Gallery is very proud to present the works of Ellen Rebarber and Eric Beckerich. Both artists produce amazing sculptures, utilizing silica based materials as their primary media, but with very different results. The radiant elegance of Ellen\u2019s mixed media and fused glass pieces, juxtapose naturally with Eric\u2019s massive and cube-like archaic constructions of mortar and found objects. Working with a variety of materials and processes has intrinsically connected both artists to the natural elements of fire, air, water and earth. Throughout the room are sculptures that honor the source from which they came.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n My work incorporates elements of architecture, painting, drawing and sculpture. The pieces are at once ancient and modern. They can be arranged and rearranged, offering infinite compositional possibilities and experiences. Viewed individually, they resemble rare objects that beg to be explored and appreciated for their intriguing depth and complexity.<\/p>\n In 2007 I began creating small mortar and wood sculptures, which evolved with the addition of glass, metal, stone and small found objects. The size, intricacy and\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>intrigue have developed with each passing year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I graduated from Memphis State University with a BFA in Painting and Sculpture and worked for many years as a designer, creating custom displays, exhibits, and\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>interiors and doing commissioned illustrations. My work has been exhibited in galleries throughout northern New Jersey.<\/p>\n My large-scale sculpture, The Essex Column, is on permanent exhibit at the\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Wildflower Sculpture park in South Mountain Reservation. Another large piece won \u201cFirst in Sculpture\u201d at the JCC Juried Show in Whippany.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One chronicler of the NY art scene has called my sculptures \u201cbeautifully simple and mysterious\u201d, and recently commented, \u201cThere is<\/i> something new under the sun!\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Expressions in Glass and Mortar The works of Ellen Rebarber and Eric Beckerich Ellen Rebarber is a sculptor. She works with a variety of materials including metal, wood, stone, cement, plaster, clay, and most recently glass. She welds, solders and enjoys making raku clay sculpture. Throughout her adult life, Ellen has taken classes to expand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4384\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}