Reader's Art 12: Mary Ellen Long

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home

Mary Ellen Long was born in Los Angeles, California and lived in the North San Diego County for 22 years.  A multi-media artist  who now lives in Durango, Colorado, her work includes mixed media drawing and assemblage, collage,  indoor and outdoor environmental installations, and artists’ books. 

"I live in a mountain setting and work directly in nature on surrounding lands, intervening in subtle ways with what is found and observed;  using handmade paper to mark, wrap, and expand natural form and elements;  burying paper under winter snows to document process and transition;  and arranging indigenous elements in symbolic forms. "

 Her environmental art projects can be seen at weadartists.org and greenmuseum.org

The artist has exhibted widely for over thirty years and her collage and artists’ books are in numerous public and private collections internationally.

   

Her blog is a good way to find out her current projects.

<maryellenlongart.blogspot.com>

She had a solo show at Susan Hensel Gallery in 2007

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
March 16- April 26, 2012