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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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Elie Porter Trubert is a New Jersey artist who works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, audio, photography, and creative nonfiction. She is driven by a deep connection to nature and interest in non-traditional art spaces, and 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. 

Elie creates “circle meditations” during her walks and leaves them for human and more-than-human others to find, fostering a relationship that is mutually healing, consensual, and reciprocal. She is currently "walking within," retracing her own life path and making interdisciplinary work based on decades of journals that are transformed using wild clay, audio, and written elements. 

​A long-time nonprofit arts leader, Elie left her position as Executive Director of The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, New Jersey to deepen her practice and recently completed an MFA through the University of New Mexico. ​

Exhibitions

White Box, New York, NY: "Terra Textl," October 2024
Curator: Yohanna Roa

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque: Touch Point Thesis Exhibition, June 2024
Curator: Erin Elder

Lagos, Mexico City, Mexico: Confluence MFA Exhibition, January 2024

Writers & Books, Rochester, NY: "Always With Us," November 2023

Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ: ​10th Annual Highlands Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention, October-November 2023

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 

La Caldera, Oaxaca, Mexico: Confluence MFA Exhibition, January 2023

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

Whittemore - Community, Culture & Conservation, Oldwick, NJ: "Water," a site-specific, ephemeral installation, October 2022 onward
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ASC Gallery, London, England, September 2022

Sala752, Zaczernie, Poland: ​"Day on Earth," August 2022

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 2021

Hemlock Art Space & Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania: "Exposé," 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, May 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," Juror: Emma Wilcox, Artistic Director, Gallery Aferro, Newark
March 2019

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

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

inSide Out: Studio Montclair
Juror