Angela Ellsworth

Angela Ellsworth is an artist working with paintings, drawings, performances and installations. Her work addresses the female body and all of the issues that go along with it including constraints and various contexts. Just a few of the issues she confronts deals with physical fitness, endurance, social ritual, and religious tradition. She was brought up Mormon so has a strong heritage that is reflected in her artwork. For example, her 'seer bonnet piece contains thousands of pearl-tipped corsage pins embedded into fabric. The points are inward and represent the tradition of craft work in the home. Traditionally known as women's work, constructing these pieces speaks to those who suffer cruelty, submission and control as they are put into this position.