Ellen Berkenblit

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Ellen Berkenblit
Born1958 [1]
Education Cooper Union
Known for Painting
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship
Website ellenberkenblit.com

Ellen Berkenblit (born 1958) is an American painter. [2] [3] [4] [5] [1] She was born in Paterson, New Jersey and graduated from the Cooper Union in 1980. [1] She received an Arts and Letters grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2013, [6] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in the following year. [1] She has exhibited at the Anton Kern Gallery. [7] [8] [9] The Brooklyn Museum holds examples of her work. [10]

Often working in large-scale and in oil paint, a recurring motif in Berkenblit’s work is a magical female protagonist, frequently depicted as a cartoonish women in profile, with long lashes, rosy cheeks, and wild hair. [11]

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