Ellen Hosafros Art

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Featured in MCA Ocala's Brick Gallery Midsummer Dreams Exhibit! As the summer season heats up I am ensconced in my lanai studio with its large windows, a view of the rising sun, and (thankfully) three ceiling fans. It’s the place where I ponder the universe and my place in it. Abstract painting is my current obsession. I simultaneously lay down paint while asking the questions, Who am I? Why am I here? What have I contributed? and “Will someone please bring me a cold Diet Coke?” In “What I Did on My Summer Vacation,” my goal was to create a painting whose theme isn’t obvious at fir...

Unintended Consequences

When half-truths and conspiracies slip into the mind and take root, real life morphs into the actual thing originally feared. All reason flies away as complacency (the dog with a bone, the squirrel eating money) disregards the consequences; as long as they have what they need, what's the problem, as freedoms fly away. The perpetrators of conspiracies, represented by the "grand dragon" who turns his back on everyone and the sentry cat that keeps guard over the new status quo, have what they want...a new society that bends to their whims. ...

Pareidolia: What the Mind Sees

Honorable Mention winner, Webber Gallery, Ocala, Florida. Bunnies and sailing ships in clouds, the face of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich, a menacing witch hiding in the knot of a tree trunk. “Pareidolia” is the definition for these phenomena and the title of my painting. Pareidolia is defined as a situation in which someone sees a pattern or image of something that does not exist. I see Pareidolia everywhere. I’ve buried at least 10 images in this painting, some are obvious while others are not. Can you find them all?...

Melt

SOLD! Melting can be positive or negative. You melt when your beloved reaches for you; you melt when standing outdoors in the sun on a steamy summer afternoon. You get the idea. ...

Skel Gazelle Carousel

The dream was a mish mash of nonsense symbols: a solitary gazelle on a carousel ride, squids and jellyfish missing some of their parts, and melted crayon blobs. The gazelle's giant horns curved into infinity. Her tiny angel wings stirred the air, wafting up carnival scents: corndogs, cotton candy, sweaty people. I realized I was sitting astride the gazelle. I pressed my legs against her sides and caught my foot on her ribcage. She broke into a run. One hoof was 10 times the size of the other. "A hunting accident," she hollered, referring to the exposed ribs and giant hoof. “It’s not polit...

Tilt: Lies My Body Tells Me

Imagine living life as though the earth is tilting below your feet. That's vertigo....

Kevin Hears the Mother Ship

Featured at the MCA Brick Gallery's Dreamscapes Surrealism Exhibit, “Kevin Hears the Mother Ship” is a metaphor for humanity’s age-old quest to prove the existence of God. Using feline figures as stand-ins for humans, surrealist artist Ellen Hosafros explores her personal spiritual journey ranging from membership in traditional religion as a child to her current embrace of agnostic theism. In the painting, “Kevin” has the sudden realization that God is real but is conflicted as to what to do next…seek out the supreme being on his own? Go the route of religion? The painting illust...

Living Time Forward and Backward

Featured at the MCA Brick Gallery's Dreamscapes Surrealism Exhibit! Physicists postulate that time doesn’t fly—it just is. The crow laughs at the folly of the mourning dove who plucks the number 4 from the Time Machine to disrupt the universal clock. The joke’s on her; in some cultures, 4 relates to the ultimate time suck: death. Swirling clock hands regurgitate past events that flow over a box of stored memories whose truths blur over time but retain the power to cause self-recrimination. Meanwhile, the industrious crow burns the candle at both ends; the rich and powerful matron become...

Chaos Theory Explained

A bird flaps its wings on one side of the world and a hurricane erupts in Florida. Fiction or truth? Scientists describe the seemingly random effect of one action on another as chaos theory. It's a real thing....

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