Ellis, Darrel
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Birth Date
- 1958-12-05
Death Date
- 1992-04-04
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Eli Whitney Museum
- Organization: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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- African American artists
Birth Place
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
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Sources
- found: The surrogate figure, c1991:page 3 (Darrel Ellis) page 26 (lives in New York; artist)
- found: Darrel Ellis, c1996:page 38 (b. Dec. 5, 1958, New York, NY; d. Apr. 3, 1992, Brooklyn, NY; artist)
- found: Darrel Ellis, 2021, ©2021:title page (Darrel Ellis) pages 159-179 (b. 1958, d. April 4, 1992 from AIDS in his home in Greenpoint, a mixed-media artist, grew up in the Bronx, graduated from the High School of Fashion Industries in Chelsea, he once worked as an educator in the Whitney Museum's Artreach program, and a security guard at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; by 1980, began painting and drawing from printed photographs, artist James Wentzy introduced him to the photography; first solo exhition "Drawings from my father's photographs" at Anichini Gallery in 1983, he was part of New York's burgeoning downtown arts scene throughout 1980s)
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Change Notes
- 2001-05-22: new
- 2023-06-29: revised
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