Stella Ebner received her BFA from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 1998 and an MFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. Ebner has exhibited her artwork at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, RISD Museum (Providence, RI), and Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art (Pont Aven, France). She is the recipient of several grants including a Central Minnesota Arts Board Individual Artist Grant, a Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artists’ Assistance Fellowship. Her work is included in the collections of the Minnesota Museum of Art, General Mills, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, and the Minnesota Historical Society. Ebner currently resides in Davis, California where she teaches at the University of California.
"My work centers upon the perceived usualness of the everyday. My imagery, however, explores the inner, subjective nature of perception, when the commonplace hints at the profound, when observation no longer glosses over the sacredness of the here-and-now. I am concerned with finding a balance between the perception of the ordinary and the perception of the spiritual. I take common occurrences, usual happenstances and everyday ubiquities as my subject matter, but look upon them with a mindful, benevolent, and even a worshipful eye. The cognitive process of perception, of seeing from the inside-out and vice-versa, is the driving force behind my work. My ultimate goal is to recognize the burden of each in-between, mundane moment of existence and infuse it with the weight of the world."
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