TEALIA ELLIS RITTER

Tealia Ellis Ritter is an American artist living and working in rural Connecticut. Ellis Ritter's work contends with the intersecting roles of the photograph as personal document, familial marker of time and object with physical surface. Her interests lie in exploring, in a physical and emotional sense, the act of looking and being looked at in return, coupled with the desire to understand the changing nature of intimacy over time. She is presently engaged in a long term project documenting family members in both a representational and abstract manner, with a focus on the physicality and vulnerability of the human body. Ellis Ritter utilizes multiple modes of image production, typically in the traditional black and white darkroom, including experimental approaches to printing, as a way of physically engaging with the work and bringing her own body movements into the photographic process.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently by Aperture, The Magenta Foundation, Taschen NYC, Double V Gallery, France, Catherine Edelman Gallery and the Swab Art Fair Barcelona. Her work has also appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Youthies Magazine, Public Editions, Mouvement Magazine, France, Stella Magazine, Bloomberg Pursuits Magazine, Paper Journal, Ain’t Bad, Musee Magazine, C 41, FotoRoom, The Financial Times of London and The Heavy Collective.