Saturday, April 5, 2025, at 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The GR Art Gallery
1086 Long Ridge Road,
Stamford, CT 06830
“A Creative Journey II” is Ellen Gordon’s first solo exhibit at the GR Art Gallery. This exhibition is a retrospective of paintings and drawings by the artist created since 2009. In 2009 Ms. Gordon had her first solo exhibition entitled “A Creative Journey” at the Stamford Mayor’s Gallery.
Ellen Gordon is a Stamford, CT-based award-winning mixed media artist. The colors and patterns in her artwork are roller coaster rhythms of fences, grids, and fractured geometries – a kind of mapping. She guides us along a journey of the personal narrative through landscaped layers of abstraction and portraiture. Playful and speculative, the rhythms remain determinedly open-ended and essentially borderless. An un-plotted story with unbounded possibilities. Over the past two decades, Gordon’s work has evolved through many phases, but her main body of work centers on figurative collages – intimate yet colorful portrayals of a woman in her thoughts, providing the viewer a window into honest moments with a series of striking and bold women. Her most recent work has been a transition into the abstract patterns, experimenting with geometric shapes and inverted forms in color palettes evoking various states of mind. Ms. Gordon has been active in the local arts for many years. She currently serves on the board of The Greenwich Art Society and The Connecticut Women Artists. Ms. Gordon is a commissioner of The City of Stamford’s Cultural Arts and Culture Board. She is the former Executive Director of the Loft Artists Association and was Co-President of the Stamford Art Association.
In 2022, Ms. Gordon became the curator of the Mayor’s Art Gallery in Stamford, CT.
The GR Art Gallery is at 1086 Long Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06903. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m. Any time by appointment, 203-274-7497. Parking is available, and the building is handicap accessible.