SELECTED WORKS : A curated selection of available paintings, prints, and editions.

Each work is presented with full transparency and offered by direct inquiry.
Together, these selections reflect the range of ideas that define Joe Ellis Art: color, language, form, and the persistence of image across time. From postwar abstraction to contemporary printmaking, each piece connects individual vision with a broader cultural pulse.
  • Caroline Kent, Players, Shadows, Figments and Forms, 2018

    Caroline Kent

    Players, Shadows, Figments and Forms, 2018

    Screen print on paper

    34 1/2 x 29 inches

    8/40

    Custom archival frame

    (CK00001-08)

     

    Caroline Kent

    Caroline Kent (b. 1975, Sterling, IL) is one of a select few painters today able to create a truly convincing abstract picture. Her paintings, drawings, and prints explore symbols, geometries, and coded fragments that hint at meaning without declaring it. Trained at the University of Minnesota and now an artist and professor based in Chicago, Kent’s practice has expanded into sculpture and large-scale public installations.

     

    Her screenprint Players, Shadows, Figments and Forms (2018), published by the Walker Art Center and printed in South Minneapolis by Entity Editions, elegantly distills her painterly vocabulary into sharp fields of color and negative space. The work reads with the same clarity and rhythm as her larger pictures. The printer of the edition, Drew Peterson, succeeds in translating the painter’s mark into print so fluently precisely because in his own practice, painting and screen printing are not separate. A very rare combination of ability, insight, and execution.

     

    Kent’s works reside in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Walker Art Center. She is represented by Kohn Gallery (Los Angeles), Casey Kaplan (New York), and Patron Gallery (Chicago).

    $ 2,450.00
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  • Elizabeth Osborne, Untitled, 1987

    ELIZABETH OSBORNE

    Untitled, 1987
    Lithograph on paper
    29.5 x 37 inches
    XCVII/CXXV (97/120)
    Custom archival frame
    (EO00001-97)

     

    Elizabeth Osborne

    Born in Philadelphia in 1936, Elizabeth Osborne has spent more than six decades refining her painterly vision: grounded in the formality of light, the experience of loss, and its transformative power. A lifelong colorist, Osborne once reflected, “Color came into my work when I started to think about things in a different way.” That shift defines her practice: from early figurative works charged with emotion to luminous abstractions that dissolve the boundaries between memory and landscape.

     

    Her recent exhibition Landscapes of the Mind’s Eye at Berry Campbell Gallery (2025) reaffirmed her status as one of America’s great living painters. Her compositions occupy a singular space: the quiet glow between seeing and feeling. Osborne’s works reside in major museum collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

    In print, Osborne’s command of color and space becomes patient and intimate: each image a distilled act of perception, where atmosphere and emotion are rendered in lithographic ink and delivered through the painter’s subject: Still Life.

    $ 800.00
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  • Jordan Nickel (POSE), Tour, 2019

    Jordan Nickel (POSE)

    Tour, 2019
    Archival pigment print and spray paint on paper 
    30 × 23⅞ inches
    94/200
    Unframed
    (JNP00001-94)
     

    POSE’s work moves between the languages of painting, design, print and the written word. Beginning as a graffiti writer, he developed a visual vocabulary rooted in rhythm, repetition, and the fragmentation of urban space. His compositions pull from signage, illustration, and memory reconstructed through color, geometry, and precision.

     

    Tour, 2019 was created on the occasion of Beyond the Streets (Brooklyn), a landmark exhibition tracing the evolution of post-graffiti painting into the broader field of contemporary art. In this edition, POSE translates his large-scale visual intensity into a layered print that reflects both motion and reflection a study in how form, photography, and memory converge through the act of seeing.

    $ 799.00
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  • Shepard Fairey, Obey, 2017

    Shepard Fairey

    Obey, 2017
    Offset Lithograph 
    36 x 24 inches 
    Open edition
    Custom archival frame
    (SF00001)
     

    An enduring emblem of contemporary visual culture, Obey is Shepard Fairey’s most recognizable image—an evolution of his early interventions in public space that questioned power, repetition, and persuasion. Rendered here in crisp black, white, and red, the work bridges graphic design and social commentary with precision and restraint.

     

    This signed example is presented in a custom-made archival frame, emphasizing the bold clarity and lasting influence of Fairey’s visual language.

    $ 333.00
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