ABOUT
Ellis Dulchin's work captures moments where growth and decay operate as a single process. His sculptures emerge from material transformations when fleeting gestures become suspended in glass, bronze, and aluminum.
Working through glassblowing and metal casting, Dulchin invites materials into constant flux until arrested. Each piece preserves a moment of transformation—some areas forming while others deteriorate, creating objects that mirror natural processes where emergence and dissolution rely on each other. These works exist as tactile records—brief material gestures stretched into permanent form.
Ellis is from Brooklyn, New York where he continues to live and work.
Ellis Dulchin (b. 1999) first found glass while still in high school. Taking classes at Urban Glass in Brooklyn NY, he quickly became enamored with the mastery and unachievable perfection of Venetian goblet making. Ellis was pursuing a BFA at Tyler School of Art during the Covid 19 pandemic, and when the studios shut down, he turned to testing and experimentation with household and construction materials. As studios re-opened, he interwove those experiments with work in glass and metal, creating detailed objects rooted in gesture, form, pattern and texture. Ellis loves to make physical, sometimes functional objects as he wants the audience to live with and interact with his work.