ELIE PORTER TRUBERT
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​​“Trubert’s work blends materials such as tree limbs, shells and plants, with text evoking physiological and psychological unravellings, and the pursuit of balance….Her nature-based sculptural materials are at once evidence of her literal collecting, seeking, and searching, and a metaphor for the complexity and solace of the cycle of life.” - Marcella Hackbardt
 
A Celebration of 50 Years of Women Artists at Kenyon College
Edited by Marcella Hackbardt and Claudia Esslinger, 2019



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Synovium Podcast: Artist Highlight
Elie Porter Trubert on Decolonizing Walking + Ephemeral Sculpture

Elie Porter Trubert is a New Jersey artist who works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, audio, and photography. She is driven by a deep connection to nature, concern for the environment, and an interest in non-traditional art spaces. She has developed an ongoing contemplative walking practice that involves the creation of ephemeral, site specific sculptural works assembled from gathered natural materials. These pieces allude to impermanence, interconnectedness, and attunement. 

She creates “circle meditations” during her walks and leaves them for human and more-than-human others to find. Ultimately they will be washed or blown away, or changed by natural processes. She documents her ephemeral pieces using photography and video and has been exploring the role of those media in the work. Through this "walking within" practice she is fostering a relationship with the more-than-human that is mutually healing, consensual, and reciprocal. Elie is currently retracing her own life path and making sculptural work using wild clay that is based on decades of journals that are "transformed" into clay bodies, and stamped with the dates they were written. Written and audio extracts from each journal accompany the work in its new form. 

​A long-time nonprofit arts leader, Elie led The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, New Jersey until last year. Her work has been exhibited widely, recently at M Galleries PNA New Jersey, Sala752 in Zaczernie, Poland and ASC Gallery in London, England. She has a BA Studio Art from Kenyon College and is an MFA candidate at the University of New Mexico.
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Exhibitions

M Galleries PNA, Washington, NJ: Sonder - a group exhibition of Co11ective members
September 2023

Art Alliance of Monmouth County
, Red Bank, NJ: window installations
May 2023

Whittemore - Community, Culture & Conservation, Oldwick, NJ: Walking-With, a site-specific installation and guided walks along the mindfulness meditation circuit
May 2023 

M Galleries, Washington, NJ: The Future is Plastic - a group exhibitions of Co11ective members
October 2022

Whittemore - Community, Culture & Conservation, Oldwick, NJ: Water, a site-specific, ephemeral installation
October 2022 onward

​ASC Gallery, London: 
September 2022

Sala752, Zaczernie, Poland: ​Day on Earth
August 2022
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Rotunda Gallery, Metuchen, NJ: Are We Fiddling While the World Burns? Activism, the environment and the artist's responsibility
Curator: Joseph Castronova
March-June 2022

M Galleries, Washington, NJ: Twenty 20 UK/US
April 2022: M Galleries, Washington, NJ

Whittemore - Community, Culture & Conservation, Oldwick, NJ
Spring, a site-specific, ephemeral exhibition
May 2022 onward

M Galleries Fellowship, Bernardsville, NJ: Centered
An exhibition of cyanotypes
March 2022

Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, Arizona: Souls of Forgotten Objects
Juror: Geoffrey Gorman
December 1-23, 2021

Hemlock Art Space & Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania:
Exposé
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Virtual Exhibition
November 13, 2021 - January 3, 2022

Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: 11th Annual InVision Juried Exhibition
Juror: Jason Chen
November 2021-January 2022

M Galleries Pohatcong Native Arboretum, Washington, New Jersey: “Wishful” solo exhibition of wands, talismans and mandalas 
September 2021


Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, New Jersey: Drawing from Life
February-April, 2021


Stay Home Gallery, Paris, Tennessee: Hope - Revolution
Juror: Lauren Harris
October 2020 - January 2021

Northwest Area Arts Council, Crystal, Illinois: Heaven and Hell
Jurors: Joe & Kathleen Isacson
August 2020

M Galleries, Washington, New Jersey: The Great Beyond Solo Exhibition
​July 2020

Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, New Jersey: Prayers for the Pandemic
Curator: Anne Trauben
M
ay 20-ongoing
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Art Fair 14C, Jersey City, New Jersey: Co11ective - Room 814
February 21-23, 2020
Jurors: Peter Gynd, Lesley Heller Gallery, Kristina Huntington, KH Fine Art Projects |Lincoln Center Editions, and Elizabeth Sadoff, Elizabeth Sadoff Art Advisory

Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey: 41st Annual Juried Exhibition
January 18 - March 15, 2020
Recipient: Juror's Award 
Juror: Grace Graupe-Pillard 

Brick + Mortar, Easton, Pennsylvania: "A Collection of Lines" 
​August 2019

Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 7th Annual Juried Exhibition
​June-July 2019
Juror: Jane Irish

Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York: Small Works 2019 (online)
​June-December 2019

Studio Montclair, Montclair, New Jersey: Viewpoints 2019 Annual Juried Exhibition
May 2019
Juror: Jeanne Brasile, Seton Hall University
Juror's Statement

Art Alliance of Monmouth County
, Red Bank, New Jersey: 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition
April 2019
Juror: Jocelyn Miller, PS1

Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, New Jersey: "Arborescence"
March 2019

Studio Montclair, Montclair, New Jersey: "Divergent Evolution"
March 2019
Juror: Emma Wilcox, Artistic Director, Gallery Aferro, Newark

M Galleries, Washington, New Jersey: "Nature/Nurture: A Family of Artists"
November 2018

Awards

Chateau Orqueveaux, France, 2023 artist residency
Trillium Arts, Mars Hill, North Carolina, 2021 artist residency
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Publicatons

Prayers for the Pandemic: 2020
​50 Years of Women Artists at Kenyon College: 2019
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Other

University of New Mexico, Confluence MFA
June 2024

inSide Out: Studio Montclair

Juror

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