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Bulletin: Ambera Wellmann
Bulletin boards and studio ephemera
Photos: Elisabeth Bernstein
For our first installment of Bulletin—a new recurring feature that focuses on artists’ bulletin boards and studio ephemera, the casual image banks they assemble for inspiration—Ursula visits the painter Ambera Wellmann in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
“I’m a representational painter, so reference images—both the search for and accumulation of them—are embedded in my painting process,” Wellmann says. “The pictures clustered on my studio wall come from art-historical texts, screenshots and Google image searches over the years and sometimes take on a weird cumulative energy. Visual rhymes emerge, or the images lose their picture-ness and start behaving more like a chorus. Somewhere in there is a diagram for painting and the specific way it has of performing an image.”
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Ambera Wellmann completed her master’s degree at the University of Guelph. While there, she won the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2017. Wellmann’s work resides in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada in Ontario and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. She lives and works in New York.