This was the first in-depth study of the work of noted Los Angeles–based painter Sharon Ellis. Ellis, best known for her modestly sized paintings of expansive, visionary landscapes, juxtaposes epic subjects such as brilliant night skies, vast roiling oceans, and distant solar systems with intricately depicted details of nature—a tangle of blossoms, a single twig, or silhouetted tree branches. These subjects from nature, while painstakingly rendered, are significantly altered through the artist’s highly inventive imagination.

Evocations: Sharon Ellis was organized by the Long Beach Museum of Art and is completing its national tour at SJMA