Christina Ellis is the 3-Dimensional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of June 2019. She is an award-winning artist based in Portland, Oregon. Although for years, she worked in acrylics and oil, most recently she specializes in sculpting in cement.

Christina’s Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of June 2019. The gallery will promote Christina and her work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3,500 collectors, galleries, buyers and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets. Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Christina’s biography and artist statement below as she describes her history and inspiration in her own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see her exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Christina’s work, please visit her website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Christina’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Christina and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Christina Ellis‘s Biography

For decades, I have explored storytelling of the human experience through art – capturing the emotion and idiosyncrasies of an individual. I began my art career in the commercial art arena as an illustrator and art director for clients such as University of California, Raytheon, ad agencies and publishers. I went back to study sculpture under Ken Gray at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where I showed my work in a number of student shows and the “No Big Heads” show. Years later, I opened an art school in Southern Oregon in response to the lack of funding and opportunities for children and adults interested in exploring the arts. Since 2011, I have been creating art for the sheer joy of it. Although through the years I’ve painted in acrylics and oil, I most enjoy the challenge and immersive experience of sculpting in cement from my studio in Portland Oregon.

Christina Ellis’s Artist Statement

If you had a dinner party, who would you invite? We’ve all been asked that. We try to think of remarkable people who would elevate us if we had an evening with them. That is how I approach the creation of these portrait busts, not only from the perspective of fascinating people who I would like to have dinner with, but also in terms of people who I don’t know who may be equally fascinating. Based on this premise, I sculpt them one-by-one in cement. The great thing about cement is that as a medium, it’s messy and hard to predict, just like human beings. So even though I may think I know who I’m inviting or want to invite, I really have no idea what they’re like until we’re actually face-to-face. And the best part? You’re invited.

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