Basement Based Artist
My name is Ella Weber, unfortunately
making the rather gross initials, ew, art.
Ella Weber is a basement based artist working across image, text, comedy and video. Searching for love, laughter and a well-balanced lunch inside a transactional world, Weber slices meat in a grocery store deli. Through the labor of an 8-hour shift, her work explores identity within a performance-based consumer culture, asking “Is good, good enough?” Across the counter, Weber blurs lines between art and life, performance and reality, employee and customer.
Trained in printmaking, Weber received an MFA with distinction from the University of Kansas in 2015. Since then she has attended residencies at MASS MoCA, The NARS Foundation, Rogers Art Loft, PrattMWP, Ox-Bow School of Art, The Wassaic Project, and Anderson Ranch to name a few. She is the recipient of a 2019 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council and voted best new media artist at the Omaha Entertainment Art Awards. The artist has exhibited widely in recent group exhibitions at IPCNY (New York, NY), Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY), and The NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY). Recent solo shows include exhibitions at Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute (Utica, NY), The Union for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), and Rogers Art Gallery (Las Vegas, NV).
My Bangs Behave Badly In Vegas. My childhood painting is an accurate self portrait sans bangs. See Below:
