Ellen Shattuck Pierce
Taking Place

01. Let It Wash Over You (AP), 2020, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

02. 4/13/20 - 5/1/20 (1/20), 2020, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

03. Wash, Rinse, Repeat (7/20), 2020, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

04. C’mon America! Mask Up! (AP), 2020, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

05. Scylla Retold (2/20), 2020, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

06. Reopening (1/20), 2020, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

07. Winter Peril (AP), 2021, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

08. “F” This (1/20), 2021, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

09. Pandemic Month 11 (AP), 2021, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

10. Circling Around (1/20), 2021, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

11. A Half a Million Today (2/20), 2021, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

12. Coming Out of the Woods (1/20), 2021, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

13. A Slice of American Life (2/20), 2021, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

14. Winter of Death (2/20), 2022, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

15. Running #1, 2021, monotype, 12 x 12 inches, $325.00

16. Doilie #16, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

17. Doilie #1, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

18. Doilie #2, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

19. Doilie #15, 2021. monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

20. Doilie #7, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

21. Doilie #8, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

22. Doilie #9, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

23. Doilie #10, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

24. Doilie #11, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

25. Doilie #3, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

26. Doilie #14, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

27. Doilie #13, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

28. Doilie #12, 2021, monotype, 10 x 10 inches, $300.00

29. Hot Vax Summer (1/20), 2022, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

30. Get Used to It (2/20), 2022, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

31. Flying Blind (AP), 2023, relief cut, 18 x 24 inches, $500.00

32. Search for the End (AP), 2022, woodcut, 24 x 18 inches, $500.00

33. Search for the Beginning (AP), 2020, relief cut, 24 x 18 inches, $500.00

34. The Covid Chronicles (1/12 – 12/12), 2023, hand-bound artist book, 8.5 x 14 inches, 42 pages, $850.00 each

Taking Place
Linoleum is a sketchbook for me, a meditative place. Making a linocut allows me to slowly carve lines that are very certain in this uncertain time. Since March 16th 2020, I have created imagery related to the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in the Covid Chronicles, a series of eighteen relief carvings. The carvings each measure 18 x 24 inches and chronicle my experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in Boston, Massachusetts and its wider impact in the United States.

As a mother and a public school art teacher I have had a window through which to view the pandemic’s effect on families’ lives. With the pivot to online teaching, I zoomed into two hundred and thirty homes to teach art to kindergarteners through fifth graders. Making the linocuts gave me some sense of agency. By recording the pain, anxiety and grief I witnessed, I aimed to escape despair and make sense of the chaos.

Bio
Ellen Shattuck Pierce lives in Boston, MA. She loves printmaking and its history as a decorative art and medium for protest. She embraces these aspects by using relief cuts to create allegorical scenes of American life in her prints and wallpapers. Her work has been shown in France, the UAE and Cuba. Her printwork will be included in the upcoming 11th International Printmaking Biennial and 5th Global Print in Douro, Portugal. She was awarded a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in 2022. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, graduated from UMass Boston, and received her Ed.M in Arts Education from Harvard. Being part Canadian, she longed to spend time in Canada and moved to Toronto to complete her MFA at York University.