Exhibition Portfolios
View current and previous exhibitions from Jacqueline Ehlis
nawader
Using a variety of mediums, Ehlis creates an installation splash across the room. Incorporating mirror and reflection, stainless steel and plastic, ceramic and paint, from floor to ceiling Nawader invites experiential engagement and rediscovery with both space and object.
2017
breathe onto the mirror
These paintings are objects that do not put significance entirely towards their materiality, stature, or monetary value. Rather, these objects activate understanding, empathy and agency. These bright, attractive, and enchanting objects privilege the space before us. The objects that I make celebrate their difference from everything around them and acknowledge our difference in the world.
2015
plural
Plural features recently donated artworks from the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection that explore complex aspects of human identity through a range of traditional and unconventional media.
20??
serenade
Utilizing the gallery as an installation, I’m creating a solid series of paintings protruding and receding into space. In addressing the monochromatic, reflection, transparency and literalizing the use of light, the work realizes one of the early dreams of abstract art and the monochrome: a potential drift into a kind of optical space.
2008
diaspora
The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland,” fresh from its premier last year at the Las Vegas Art Museum, features the work of 26 artists who attended the graduate program at the University of Las Vegas between 1990 and 2001 under the tutelage of Dave Hickey
2007