Ellen Soderquist

Fragment III: She Went The Other Way

Listing No: 11703

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Artwork Info

FAE Listing No:
11703
Artist:
Ellen Soderquist (1945-)
Title:
Fragment III: She Went The Other Way
Date of Work:
1982
Signature:
"Soderquist © 82" at lower center
Where Produced:
Dallas, Texas
Presentation:
Framed

Artwork Medium

Type:
Drawing
Medium:
Graphite
Support:
on Paper
Medium Notes:
graphite on rag paper

Artwork Size & Weight

Primary:
31 x 52.5 in (Sight Size)
Outer Dimensions:
37 x 58.5 in. (Frame Outer Dimension)

Artwork Condition

Condition:
Excellent

Artwork Provenance

Provenance:
This Artwork comes directly from the artist 1982 - DWG on Hall St Dallas TX 1985 - Syracuse Scholar/Everson Museum of Art Drawing National, Syracuse University Jurors: Clement Greenberg, Nancy Hoffman, & John Perreault (National Tour) Exhibition Catalog: Syracuse Scholar. Vol. 6 # 2, Fall 1985

About this Piece

This is from a series of large drawings of the nude figure, executed by Soderquist in 1982, called “Fragments.” These drawings focused on details rather than encompassing the entire figure.
This drawing was in a traveling juried exhibition titled “Syracuse Scholar/Everson Museum of Art Drawing National” at Syracuse University. The show was juried by Clement Greenberg, Nancy Hoffman, and John Perreault.

About the Artist

Ellen Soderquist

Artist’s Statement

Since 1979 I have been a studio artist, a teacher of life drawing and an advocate for
the nude in contemporary art. As an artist, l create intelligent and sensuous graphite
drawings of the human body. The nude has been a constant in my work since 1963; it is
my art form; and drawing is the primary technique for my expression of ideas. As a
teacher of life drawing, l advocate that my students learn the role of the nude in the
history of art and that they communicate their ideas about humanity through their work.
As a lecturer and an author, I bring the complex relevance of the unclothed human body
to the consciousness of contemporary culture.

In my freshman drawing class at SMU, we were taught life drawing as a discipline;
however, l was aware that the nude meant much more than that to me. As I laid down
the stick of charcoal after making my first gesture drawing of a nude model, I was
hooked. There was, in the flurry of charcoal on the surface of the newsprint, Somebody
looking back at me. After l discovered Kenneth Clark’s book, "The Nude: A Search for
Ideal Form," in which he stated that the nude is “not the subject of art, but a form of art” I
worked for decades to develop a technique that begins with a mass or scribble gesture
drawing that moves through abstracted forms to a tangible essence of humanity. In
numerous series of artwork, l have pursued a conceptual itinerary that spans the gamut
of human emotions and relationships and l have explored contemporary attitudes about
the nude as well as those of other cultures throughout the history of art.

Recently a reviewer described my drawings as “highly developed…elegant and
provocative." I strive to create an individual who is present for the viewer.

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