Accomplished, award-winning artist known for brilliant abstract paintings, murals and prints. Also, an experienced retail and fashion marketing executive recognized for spectacular international fashion prognostications and publications. Founder, The National Designers' Group.
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“Just Paint”
by Ellen Sherman-Zinn
Color, movement, rhythm, even melody, combine for me to create image. My youthful love of dance, the effect of one color juxtaposed to another, the mood of melody, created a need in me to express myself with paint. My mind moves my eye to my arm to my hand to the canvas. That's it; except when I get stuck and then I have to remember two words, "just paint."
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Poetry and will in the paintings of Ellen Sherman Zinn
by John Austin
The work of Elllen Sherman Zinn pulses with vitality through its suggestive interplay between control and spontaneity. The inventiveness of transcendence that plays itself out so readily in her art is particularized through the ambiguities of scale, which plays an important role in apprehending sensorially the given object and its gestural components.
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Art in America
by Stephen Westfall
Ellen Sherman-Zinn is a gifted painter working in an Abstract Expressionist mode. For sheer painting skill, she has proved to be the most advanced student in this year’s graduate program. What has been especially pleasing is her restlessness, a desire to challenge the color combinations and compositionally uniting gestures that are already in her repertoire. This regenerative self-questioning is discernable in her recent work, where figural elements and landscape space are giving signs of reappearance.
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SELECT EXHIBITS
Single Shows
| The New Art Center, New York, NY |
| L.A. Gallery and Frame, Green Brook, NJ |
| Post Logic, New York City |
| Palmyra Gallery, Bound Brook, N.J. |
| Johnson and Johnson, Invitational, New Brunswick, NJ |
| Everhart Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ |
| The Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ |
| Warner Lambert Invitational, Morris Plains, NJ |
| Frame of mind, International Show, Miami, FL |
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Group Shows
| Andews Art Museum, Selected Artist, Andrews, NC |
| Johnson & Johnson, Selected Abstract Artists choosen to stimulate employee imagination, Bridgewater, NJ |
| Everhart Gallery, Basking Ridge, NJ |
| Continental Airlines Presidents Club, Newark International Airport, NJ (3 consecutive years) |
| NCJW, Focus on Art, Invitational, West Orange, NJ (4 consecutive years) |
| Hadassah 37th Annual Art Show, Invitational |
| Somerset County / Bridgewater Library, Bridgewater, NJ |
| more |
COLLECTIONS
| Dennis Smalls, Edison,NJ |
Kris Wade, Watchung, NJ |
| Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ |
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hausman, Narbeth, PA |
| Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Scheininger, Westfield, NJ |
| Solomon A. Berson Foundation, Long Island, NY |
William E. Kinvig, British Columbia |
| Lexus Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ |
Mr. and Mrs. J. Weissglass, New York, NY |
| Haber-Clausen, New York City |
Mrs. Charles Borkin, Short Hills, NJ |
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AWARDS & HONORS
| Artist grant to the Vermont Studio Center, Artist in residence program, Johnson, Vt. |
| Recipient of the Kerygma Gallery for Best Contemporary Work, the CAA Mid Lantic Open-Juried Show, Jury Of Awards: Frank Zuccarelli, PSA, Joel Popadics |
| Named one of NJ State’s “Most Accomplished Women,” NJW Magazine Collectors Issue |
| Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Montclair State University |
| Recipient of the Liquitex Fine Art Scholarship Awards; Jurors Bernard Chaet, Professor of Art, Yale University |
| Martin Prekop, Chairman of Undergraduate Division, Art Institute of Chicago, Barbara Rogers, Painting Department
Chairperson, San Francisco Art Institute |
| Outstanding graduate student in painting, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ; Selected by Stephen |
| Westfall, Distinguished Visiting Professor and Art Critic, Art in America |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Who's Who In American Art, New Providence, N.J. R.R. Bowker 22nd Edition and foreward |
| Courier News, Ellen Sherman-Zinn Back On The Scene |
| Sunday Courier News, Everhart Exhibit Features Four Favorite |
| Mount Olive Chronicle, Warren Township Artist, Ellen Sherman Zinn’s "Studio," one of the many paintings featured at the Everhart Gallery. |
| Echoes Sentinel, The Works of Ellen Sherman-Zinn of Warren Township are on view at Everhart Gallery |
| Hanover Eagle, Region Weekly News, The Works of Ellen Sherman-Zinn are on view at Everhart Gallery…an Abstract Expressionist painter known for her “striking,” vibrant colors |
| Newark Star-Ledger, Ellen Sherman-Zinn exhibits her acrylic paintings such as “The Red Chamber” through April 30 at the Everhart Gallery |
| Sunday Courier News, Different Way of Viewing…Everhart Gallery of Bernards Township features Abstract Expressionist works of Ellen Sherman-Zinn |
| The Jewish Horizon, Ellen Sherman-Zinn Exhibits Paintings at Warner Lambert Art Gallery, Morris Plains, and at the Annual Art Show of Westfield Hadassah at Temple Emanu El |
| The Sunday Newark Star-Ledger, Eileen Watkins, “Home-Grown Artists Show Their Skills at College Exhibition,” |
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SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
| Lecture and Workshop, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, Edison NJ |
| Demonstration, Pingry School, Short Hills, NJ |
| Enrichment Program, “Painting From the Imagination,” Pingry School, Short Hills, NJ |
| Lecture and slide presentation for the Knitwear and Sportswear Industry, Pierre Hotel, NYC |
| Lecture and slide Presentation, NKSA, Cleveland, OH |
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EDUCATION
| Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ M.A., Painting, 1988 |
| Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY B.F.A., Textile Design, 1966 |
| International Center of Photography, NYC |
| Donald Stacy Studio, NYC |
| Parsons School of Design, NYC |
| Boston University, Boston, MA |
| Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ |
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