Ellie is a Greek American visual artist. She was born and raised in Chicago and studied Architecture Theory and History at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. She is currently based in Athens where she is in her second year of studies at Athens School of Fine Arts in the painitng studio of Pantelis Chandris and performance studio of Georgia Sagri. 

Ellie’s work utilizes repetition as a structure to produce new forms. She has a strongly sketchbook and collage based practice that teases out ideas through a persistent look at what already is. She similarly uses the repition of gestures in performance to arrive at new forms of embodiment. 

Ellie is interested in the meaning taken on by inanimate objects (as obstacle, as aid) and our relationship to the landscape of objects we inhabit (clutter, house). Her design education focused on the social and cultural impact of the built environment and on questions of agency that arise out of our attempts to mark or imprint that environment.

She is interested in cultural signs and symbols - having completed an undergraduate thesis on Karagiozi shadow theater as a rhetorical tool that centers the grotesque and eternal body in periods of Greek national disembodiment. 

She is currently inspired by the work and thinking of Jasper Johns.