Artist
and writer Ellen Frank received her bachelor of arts degree from the University
of California, Los Angeles; and her M.A. and Ph.D in literature and visual arts
from Stanford and Yale universities. She was Assistant Professor of English at
the University of California, Berkeley from 1973 -1977.
Among her published works are the award winning Literary
Architecture: Essays Toward A Tradition (University of California Press: 1979
hardcover; 1983 paperback), and many essays on painting, architecture and literature.
Her creative writing has been published in Pequod and White Walls; her first play
Frida@chiapas.net (co-written with Maria Pessino, founder and director of Oddfellows
Productions), received its first reading in New York City at the Theatre for the
New, and its second reading July 1999, at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center.
Ellen Frank has received awards
for both her painting and her writing. These awards
include a Fulbright Fellowship to London in Aesthetic
Theory under Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich; Ford
Foundation Grant in Lithography;Pollock-Krasner
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Award in Painting; a New
York Foundation of the Arts Award for her original
illuminated manuscript in 1997; and four New York
State Council on the Arts awards: one in 1999
as a Founder of Ninbark International: Art Concepts,
and one in 2000 for her Illumination Atelier Project
and Hanukkah
Illuminated: A Book of Days.
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Ellen
Frank's work has been exhibited throughout the United States. She was invited
to inaugurate "T" at the Soho Guggenheim with a sequence of 18 paintings;
and in 1999 she received a commission from J/Brice of Boston to create an 84-foot
mural in gold, copper and silver leaf on linen.
Ellen Frank was Professor and Guest Artist at Barnard College and at Rutgers University
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