pan american art projects

PANAMERICAN ART PROJECTS

ELLEN FRANCES TUCHMAN

Pan American Art Projects
1615 Dragon Street, in the Design District of
Dallas.
214-522-3303
www.panamericanart.com.

The gallery is open Tuesday- Saturday 10 a.m. –
5 p.m..

Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition Out of My
Mind featuring gallery artist Ellen Frances Tuchman. Pan American Art Projects will host
an opening reception Saturday, October 17, from 5 – 8 p.m. at 1615 Dragon Street in
the Design District of Dallas. Call 214-522-3303 for information or visit www.
panamericanart.com. The gallery is open Tuesday- Saturday 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. The
exhibition will close October 10, 2009.

About Ellen Frances Tuchman

Studying at UCLA and California College of the Arts, Ellen Frances Tuchman received
her BFA in Textiles. Incorporating ephemera such as matchbooks, beads, and paper
quills with other unlikely materials such as nail polish and eye shadow, Tuchman
repeats patterns of line and color, creating a visual labyrinth. In Out of My Mind,
Tuchman's third exhibition with Pan American she has created a dialogue between
her two bodies of work - the witty and nostalgia-packed narrative oeuvres and the
painterly paper quill internal landscapes of the mind. Exploring the nature of our
minds and the brain in this new body of work, Tuchman’s outlook is both serious and
whimsical. Tuchman states “Clearly, I am slightly insane and the obsessive details in my
work manifest a need for reason and order, but with humor and a light touch.
Otherwise, life becomes much too grim.” A tension exists here exploring beauty vs.
tragedy, big ideas vs. minute detail, and craft vs. art.

Tuchman's work can be found in both Texan and bi-coastal private collections, as well
as the Children's Medical Center in Dallas, the Federal Reserve Bank, General Electric,
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Costume Institute, and Trader Vic's Dallas.
Tuchman’s work is also featured prominently in the newly renovated Stoneleigh Hotel.
In recent years, Tuchman has exhibited with the Arlington Museum of Art, the Lawndale
Art Center in Houston, Gallery Sho in Tokyo, Japan, and the McKinney Avenue
Contemporary in Dallas.