Ellen Driscoll

Ellen has been a collaborating artist at CALL since the fall of 2013. Her work encompasses sculpture, drawing, and public art installation. Recent large scale installations include "Night to Day, Here and Away" for the Sarasota National Cemetery, “Distant Mirrors” for the Providence River, “FastForwardFossil #2” at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, and “Revenant” and “Phantom Limb” for Nippon Ginko, Hiroshima, Japan. Her works create shifts of perception that imbue doubt in things thoughts of as given, and create openings for a realignment. Ms. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of Art.

CALL/WALK: BROADWAY: 1000 STEPS — FALL 2016

Ellen Driscoll, Joyce Hwang and Mckenzie Younger’s WALK focused on the neighborhood around Collect Pond and how it has evolved over time. The WALK explored the urban ecosystem of Chinatown, touching on the history of the neighborhood and its evolution from a freshwater pond landscape to an industrialized urban area. They focused on contemporary ecologies and the relationship between human and non-human habitats, with a specific emphasis on urban rat ecologies. They started the WALK in Collect Pond Park, walked past the Manhattan Detention Center, and into Columbus Park. The WALK conveyed an appreciation of non-human habitats in the city and the profound effects that human actions have on urban ecosystems. 

This  walk is a part of CALL/WALKS, an ongoing series of artist and scientist led public walks diving deep into urgent, local environmental concerns and innovative ideas to overcome them. This particular walk connects to CALL’s larger initiative in the CALL / CHINATOWN.

BOWER — Artpark LABORATORY — 2016

Bower is a series of interrelated architectural fragments, designed to promote awareness and interest in local bird species, as well as draw attention to the perils of bird-strike window collisions.

The installation is located in ArtPark, a site that has a long history of physical and experiential adaptation. Drawing from this sensibility, the windows provide a translucent overlay in the landscape, reflecting the image of viewers in the glass with passing clouds, birds and plants. Also along the lines of adaptation, the structures serve as frameworks for present and future inhabitation by flora and fauna.
Bower  is a collaboration between Joyce Hwang, Ellen Driscoll, and Matthew Hume; it was commissioned by CALL/City as Living Laboratory and ArtPark.

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