Fried Egg

• Title Fried Egg
• Category Sculpture
• Medium Baked bisque
• Medium Funk, Pacific Northwest (subject or artist)
• Dimensions 6"h x 5"w x 2"d
• Year Completed 1976
• Notes Ellie Fernald was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1939 but lived and worked in Seattle, Washington for most of her artistic career. She started her formal studies in art at the Wallingford Potter’s Guild, Penland School of Crafts, took workshops with Karen Karnes (1925-2016), Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011), and M.C. Richards (1916-1999). She moved to California in 1971 and studied ceramics at Claremont Graduate School. A year later she moved to Seattle, WA and established a studio and taught middle school art at Lakeside School. She started her art career with clay in the 60s and 70s, followed by papier mâché, fabric, painting, embroidery and beadwork. In the past decade, she worked on yarn paintings, something akin to what the Huichol people of Mexico have long been doing; “pressing perle cotton thread of various sizes into a thin layer of beeswax applied to a rigid surface like wood or canvas board.” (Ellie Fernald, Whitworth Art Collection, 2004). Fernald wrote that she cherished being able “to attend to what’s beautiful or what’s moving, but also to what’s absurd in the world around me and in my own skewed imagination.” (Ellie Fernald, Whitworth Art Collection, 2004) She avoided displaying in galleries and museums because she did not want them to influence what to make. Following a yearlong illness, she died peacefully in 2019 at the age of 79.
• Artist Ellie Fernald American b. 1939
• Credit Carlson Collection
• Location Library 116
• Accession Number 1973.0006
• Status Checked Out
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