Artist statement:

Continually interested in the overlap of domestic interior & exterior spaces in which we spend most of our lives, Ellie Grimm creates oil paintings that pull from real and imagined spaces. From the interior murals and backdrops she creates, her painting practice engages with and often incorporates those pieces she has done. She is interested in the layers of meaning that are created when living surrounded by her murals, and the layers that occur when those murals are repainted in other pieces. Reality, fantasy and revision.

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Bio:

Ellie Grimm was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She got her degree at the Penny Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in 2017. Additionally, she studied oil painting at The Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. Trained as an oil painter, she has been creating commissioned work since graduating in 2017. Her work is in public and private collections across the country. In 2021 she founded a mural and backdrop painting company with her mother, KT Arnesen, called Castle Walls. Together they design and paint interior murals in residential  spaces and large backdrops on loose canvas for events such as weddings. They have been featured in issue 3 of international magazine Arts to Hearts in 2023 and can be seen in Wedplan.

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