Visiting Artist Ellen Driscoll will give a free pubic lecture on March 11 at 6pm in the ICA at MECA&D. Driscoll's sculptures, drawings, and installations explore resource consumption and material lineage. Her latest multi-part, multi-year project, FASTFORWARDFOSSIL highlights the relationship between water and oil consumption and was displayed at the Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and Frederike Taylor Gallery, New York, NY. Driscoll's previous work includes installations such as “The Loophole of Retreat” (Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris), and “Passionate Attitudes” (Threadwaxing Space, New York), public art projects such as “As Above, So Below” for Grand Central Terminal, a suite of 20 mosaic and glass works for the tunnels at 45th, 47th and 48th streets, “Catching the Drift”, a women’s restroom for the Smith College Museum of Art, and “Aqueous Humour”, a kinetic sculpture for the South Boston Maritime Park. Driscoll has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Anonymous Was a Woman, the LEF Foundation, and Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute. Ellen Driscoll is currently the head of the sculpture department at Rhode Island School of Design.
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