About
Natural forms have a kind of elegance and a kind of perfection, really, which, keep making you want to fathom the mystery of that elegance, the mystery of that perfection; that’s why in any given period whether its a Song Dynasty Chinese painter, or whether its Redon or whether its Matisse, or whoever it is, we are, to some extent, all talking over time about these mysteries, these particular sensual delights that, you know, are still with us. If they weren’t still with us then I think it would be very frightening, because we would have lost our touch with those feelings.
Ellen Grabiner, Ph.D.
is a visual artist and writer, and Professor Emerita in the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities at Simmons University, Boston.
She has published on film and television, as well as on lesbian motherhood, and wrote I See You: The Shifting Paradigms of James Cameron’s Avatar, a philosophical and technological gloss on the film.
Her visual work transverses media, working towards the integration of the traditional and the digital, the hand and the machine, all in pursuit of an understanding of natural form.
Curriculum Vita available here.
Recent Simmons University Faculty Spotlight available here.
Video interview, “Don’t Think, But Look!” available here.
Video interview, “Birds, Brooms and Lanterns available here.
Grabiner writes, paints, sings and dances in her studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lives with her 5 year-old pandemic pit bull, Sweetea.
Her 14 year-old pit bull, Shanti, died in February, 2020, is remembered below.
