Darrel Ellis
Darrel Ellis
Darrel Ellis’s conceptual paintings, photographs and drawings created a radical approach to portraiture and photography, depicting intimate views of friends, family, and self-portraiture, often filtered through the work other photographers, including his deceased father. Early work – in multi-media materials on paper, or acrylic on canvas – present confident and lively scenes of the Ellis family life, while later photography-based work is increasingly experimental and elegiac. Ellis’s life was tragically cut short by AIDS-related causes in 1992 at age 33.
b. 1958, Bronx, NY–d. 1992, Brooklyn, NY.
Image details: Darrel Ellis, Self-Portrait after Photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe, ca. 1989, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 42 inches. Photo credit: Christopher Burke (above and previous page).
FRIEZE May 2023 by John Keene
ANOTHER May 2023 by Miss Rosen
PHOTOGRAPH January 2023 by Mark Alice Durant
BMOREART January 2023 by Laurence Ross
ARTNEWS December 2022 by Alex Greenberger
THE NEW YORK TIMES September 2022 by Will Heinrich
APARTEMENTO Summer 2022 by Allen Frame
HYPERALLERGIC December 2021 by Megan N. Liberty
THE NEW YORKER by December 2021 by Chris Wiley
THE NEW YORK TIMES May 2021 by Will Heinrich
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POZ May 2021 by Trenton Straube
