Ellen Borison Issaquah WA Newly transplanted to the Northwest from Pittsburgh PA, Ellen Borison began drawing the figure in 1967. She continued drawing until 1976 when she took up computing and became a software developer. After almost 25 years, she resumed drawing in the fall of 2000. "I find nothing so compelling as drawing the figure. Drawing is the most authentic form of art-making -- direct, unmediated, surprising. I draw nudes, because clothing is artifice, because nudity exposes our essential selves, because drapery hides structure. I am interested in how a model holds him/herself, how s/he drapes her hands, or cants his/her head." For figure drawings, Borison typically uses artist's crayon and hard pastel on a hardsurfaced paper, working back and forth, drawing and erasing, searching for the figure in the lines and tones she puts on paper. Represented by the Panza Gallery in Millvale PA, where she had a solo exhibition on the eve of her departure to the west coast, Borison has a modest, but growing community of collectors scattered across the full width of the country. 060329.amyx3 28 x 22 ($430) Nupastel on paper 060424.alix 28 x 22 ($530) Nupastel and artist's crayon on paper 060717.alix 28 x 22 ($530) Nupastel and artist's crayon on paper
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