Ellie Hogan
Ellie Hogan is a Milwaukee-based painter and printmaker who was born and raised in rural central Wisconsin on the remnants of a historic dairy farm. In 2025, Hogan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Studio Arts with a dual concentration in Painting & Drawing and Printmaking & Book Arts, as well as with a minor in Art History. Hogan’s primary mediums include oil paintings and copper etchings. Her work is shaped by interests in history, architecture, and research. In her latest body of work, her extensive research into her personal genealogical history has guided both architectural landscape and portraiture.
Hogan has received several awards for their work, including the Laurence Rathsack Arts Scholarship. She has participated in numerous exhibitions throughout the Milwaukee Area, including Thinking of a Place, the inaugural exhibition for Bayview’s Addendum Gallery, 2nd Annual Member Exhibition in the House of Rad Gallery, and Brushworks in the Arts Center Gallery. Several of her works are included in UWM’s permanent art collection.
Hogan is currently concluding a year-long Emerging Artist Residency with Anchor Press, Paper & Print in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she also serves as an instructor in copper etching. Her residency exhibition with co resident Sarah Liz Lothian will open October 3rd at the House of Rad Gallery in Milwaukee and will remain open through the 30th. She plans to continue working and exhibiting in the Milwaukee area, maintaining memberships with Anchor Press, Paper & Print and the House of Rad, and aims to eventually receive a Master of Fine Arts.
Bio
Artist Statement
Throughout a year of genealogical research, points of interest have bubbled to the surface and unraveled into an expansive story; consisting not just of the lives of the individuals in focus, but also of how their journeys inform and reflect the world around us today. Within this endeavor, I have been drawn most to the gaps in information, as well as the emotional gaps that historical recordkeeping cannot fill. This body of work aims to satisfy those disparities, documenting moments, places, emotionally profound journeys, and the faces of those who lived them. My work provides a resting point to reflect on the people and places that were once here and the associated memories that can never be fully retrieved or reconstructed.
Imagery and process are both equally important in this body of work. I relish in the physicality and process of each technique, experimenting with layering, texture, speed, removal, and scarring that creates the final image. The conceptual is reflected both within the final image and the process itself, displaying incomplete answers, femoral gestures, uncertainty, and persistent layering and reworking, much like the acts of researching and remembering. This is done within several printmaking techniques, including etching, intaglio, and monotype.
This body of work bookmarks moments in history that both tell the story of real individuals' lives, and the greater story of the paths that converge into the present. These moments revolve around ideas of roots, migration, chance, and home, not just as historical events, but also as a personal inheritance in understanding the present moment in my life and the world around me.