New Exhibit to Open in Chesapeake Gallery - Ella Wearing: Entry Way

The Chesapeake Gallery at Harford Community College is proud to present Entry Way, a solo exhibition of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Ella Wearing. The exhibit will be on display on the second floor of the College’s Student Center from June 12 to July 28, 2025. All are welcome to attend the opening reception and artist talk on June 14 from 11 AM to 1 PM in the Gallery.

The paintings in this exhibition focus on the patterns observed by the artist in her neighborhood, particularly the mosaic tiles found in entryways. Wearing uses the concept of patterns to explore the lingering fragments of the past and the history of design as related personal and societal structures of the present and future. The work investigates relics of the past that we continue to interact with in our daily lives. Wearing reforms these observed patterns into something familiar, but novel. By altering the scale, color palette, and medium, Wearing creates a sense of repeated forms that never settle and continue to change under new circumstances.

Ella Wearing
Ella Wearing (b. London, UK) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Ella received a BA (Honors) in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art in 2012 and an MFA in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2016. Since 2009, Ella has exhibited in spaces in London, Glasgow, New Jersey, Chicago and New York. Most recently she was a 2025 Winter/Spring Fellow at the Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, NY. Upcoming exhibitions include a three-person show later this summer at The Neon Heater, Findlay, OH. Ella works with motifs and patterns that she collects from built environments and plays with perceptual disorientation and shifting alignments by reshaping fragments from this inventory into drawings and other mixed media artworks.

The Chesapeake Gallery
The College’s Chesapeake Gallery features contemporary art by emerging and established artists, as well as Harford’s faculty, staff, and students. It serves as a vital educational link between the community and the practice of art and design in the region. View the current Chesapeake Gallery exhibit at https://www.chesapeakegallery.org/. For additional information, email gallery@harford.edu or call 443-412-2461.