Ellis, Paul

Paul Ellis is a painter from Washington D.C. He has his BS in Industrial Design from the University of the Arts, College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. Ellis has had solo shows at the Gallery International in Baltimore Maryland (2005) and the Arts Club of Washington in D.C. (2005). Ellis was a semi finalist for the Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Arts Awards in (2005, 2003). He has been included in various juried shows including the “9th Annual All-Media Exhibition” at Touchstone Gallery in Washington, D.C. (2007) and “Remix: East-West Currents in Contemporary Art” at the Arlington Arts Center (2006). Ellis’ abstract paintings are delicate and powerful compositions of negative space and intricate complex forms that explore ideas concerning nature, time and linguistics.