Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based painter, quilter, and builder whose work traces the boundary between human gesture and the living landscape.

Selected Work

Aleatoric: Part 1

Aleatoric: Part 2

Everything In Its Own Time/ Ogni Cosa C’a So’ tempu

Perceptiminal (I-XI)

If Memory Is a Choice, Time Is a Spiral, We Stapled Posters to the Community Board, a Pact, a Floor Plan, a Deep Map, to Kiss and Kiss, Final Breaths Taken Between Two Moons, the Shapes of My Past, a Rubbish Lid the Same Size as the Sun, 250 Million Year Old Rocks and a Health Care Notice

Goat Mountain Slab Table

Aggregates (I-XX)

Forever and No Time At All

Derangement into New Arrangement

The Slender Margin

Serotiny

Arborescent Discomfort

Live The Questions

Off Season

Words as Instruments

Sun Dial

Sun Dial

Both/And Exhibition

Borderline Fantasy

This Must Be The Place

Queer Ecology Lab

Another Place

Shape Studies

Pocoapoco

Patchwork Cleveland

Street View

Hermès

Site & Cite