Brad Ellis
Austin, Texas
Brad Ellis is a mid-career, Texas-based artist whose focus is on abstract painting. Throughout his
career he has continually experimented with imagery from tightly rendered, systematic patterns to
loosely constructed, expressionistic compositions. He has distinguished himself by embracing the
ancient medium of encaustic which is hot wax painting and is a process by which heated bees wax
is mixed with pigments and applied to board or canvas and then fused to the surface with a heat
source. The pure physicality of the paint combined with various collage elements render distinct
textures and surface treatments that energize his abstract imagery with movement and excitement.
