Ellen Mote - Artist, Designer
As a child Ellen Mote lived in Lagos, Nigeria where her passion for travel and self-expression was born. The dynamic culture of Lagos encouraged her to pursue her calling as an artist, she later earned her BFA in Art.
Ellen Mote paints abstractions of the female form with acrylic on unprimed canvas. Ellen layers shapes and color in a sheer manner nodding to her own feelings of invisibility as a woman and a mother. Ellen challenges our pursuit of perfection and the impossibility of the expectation with symmetrical, but imperfect, lines colors and shapes.
Ellen has travelled to over 30 countries, and continues to infuse her global viewpoint into her work.
Ellen is also the owner and designer of Ellen Mote Jewelry, a jewelry design company committed to creating unique and timeless pieces of handmade jewelry.
ELLEN MOTE CV
Ellen Mote, b. 1990 (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Ellen Mote is an American born artist, with a background in painting and a career in jewelry design, Ellen Mote now enjoys practicing both crafts out of her studio in Waco, Texas. Inspired by nature and designed with unexpected compositions, Ellen’s paintings are crafted using cyanotypes, acrylic paint, and unprimed canvas.
EDUCATION
2008-2012 – BFA, Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas
2010 – SACI, Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025- “Sheer Disposition”, Washington Gallery, Waco, TX
2023 – “Boom Boom”, Cultivate 7Twelve, Waco, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Art Tapas: A Contemporary Collectors Take, Art Center Waco, Waco, TX
2024 - Road Trip to Waco, Washington Gallery, Waco, TX
2024 - Small Works, Art Center Waco, Waco, TX
PUBLICATIONS
DIGITAL
2024 - Field Notes by Kristina Kane, Artist-Mother Interview
2023 - Waco Tribune-Herald, March 1, 2023
2020 - Magnolia Journal, Fall 2020, Iissue 16, p 88
2017 - Texas Monthly, Volume 45, Issue 12, p 74
2017 - Wacoan, November 2017
2016 - Magnolia Journal, Fall 2016, Issue 1, p 29
2016 - Baylor Lariat, March 15, 2016
LECTURES
2024- Artist Talk: Small Works Artists and Collectors Panel, Waco, TX
2023- Artist Lecture with Dr. Jane Damron, GROCERY, Waco, TX