Throughout September, the Gallery will be presenting From Paint to Pixels: A 60-Year Retrospective of Art-Making Through Various Media by Judith P. Ellers.

The artwork of Judith Ellers draws upon her love of color and form. For more than six decades, her work has varied in subject matter, technique and media. These include still life, figurative, abstract and landscape works through drawing, printmaking, bookmaking, photography and painting. Her award-winning photography is inspired by nature, while her painting is imbued with a sense of energy.

Over the years, the spiritual quality in much of her work bears the influence of artists such as Arthur Dove and Paul Klee. The works of J. M. W. Turner and the artists of the post-impressionism movement have also inspired her work.

From the time Judith was the first fine arts major at the Rochester Institute of Technology invited into the Mac Lab to generate imagery, she has continued to explore the potential of technology and embrace it where appropriate as one of the tools in her art-making.

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Judith P. Ellers is a fine artist whose history of art-making extends for more than six decades since the days of her youth on Schumann Road in Sand Lake, New York. Her “formal” art education began at Averill Park High School in the 1960s. Encouraged by the faculty, she took many classes with instruction in painting, sculpture and fashion illustration and was one of the first female students to enroll in mechanical drawing, learning the art of perspective.

Upon graduation from APHS, Judith continued her studies at Buffalo State College, worked as an illustrator and graphic artist, and later earned a certificate in building technology and then both her BFA and MFA in painting from RIT in the mid-1980s.

For the next 25 years, Judith served as a fine arts faculty member, first at RIT and then the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg. She continued throughout her faculty years as an active artist and photographer while exhibiting her award-winning work in western New York and then the Carolinas.

Upon retiring from teaching in 2013, Judith returned to her roots in upstate New York and became an active member of the East Bank Arts Alliance, Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC), North Country Arts, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Cooperstown Art Association and The Fenimore, among others.

She continues to exhibit extensively in solo, juried entry and group shows in Vermont, eastern New York and Leatherstocking Country. She also occasionally serves as a guest juror, most recently for the Ticonderoga Art Center.

Since her retirement, Judith has resided in Washington County, New York, and today maintains a fine art gallery, Whipple City Studio, in the Village of Greenwich.