Posts Tagged ‘Dana Ellyn’

We Love Arts: Dana Ellyn’s “The Art of Dating”

Jose lays the check directly between us. He couldn’t have have centered it more accurately if he’d held a ruler. The Pilot and I glance at the pleather billfold like it’s the elephant in the room it’s about to become.
- from Rachel Machacek’s The Science of Single
Earlier this week Katie interviewed one of her favorite [...]

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We Love Arts: Dana Ellyn, BANNED

There was a time when banning a book meant silencing a voice. Flush with the power of our digital age, we may forget that information so readily available to us – both truth and lies – was once so easily stopped. That is, until we read about governmental attempts to control knowledge through digital means [...]

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We Love Arts: Dana Ellyn, Divinely Irreverent

What’s most shocking about Dana Ellyn’s paintings?
That they’re truthful.
Opening this past weekend at the Evolve Urban Arts Project in the Atlas District, Divinely Irreverent is an audacious exhibit delivering some hard slaps to myths of many kinds – from religion to what it means to be a woman. These are thought-provoking pieces – sometimes outright [...]

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