photo: Cynthia DelConte
Biography
Ellen Jouret-Epstein is a self-taught artist who has always invented her own ways of working. She first exhibited weavings in museums and galleries in San Francisco as part of the nascent fiber arts movement. She is also a landscape architect and her work has often created a kind of landscape or topography. She now focuses on her art practice full time from her studio in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Jouret-Epstein’s recent work was featured in the solo exhibition Space/Place at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum/WAAM in Woodstock NY in Spring 2025. Her work has been included in dozens of regional shows and in New York City, including regular showings at the Lockwood Gallery, Kingston; WAAM; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; ASK/Art Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY; Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY; Womenswork Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY; Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY; Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY; BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY; Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY; Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY; The Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Pinkwater Gallery, Kingston, NY; Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY; and L’ARTeficIO, Torino Italy. In 2022 she was featured artist at Window on Hudson, Hudson, NY, with her woven paper installation, “Peekaboo,” and that year her studio was selected to participate in Upstate Art Weekend. Jouret-Epstein’s collage New Alphabet has been featured on the cover of the French literature journal l’esprit createur.
