Chelsea Ellis, Fruit, 1/5, 2024, Pigment print, 40 x 30 inches, $3,000.

In my photographic work, I use my body and paint to create composite images of humanoid forms that blur the boundaries between the familiar and unfamiliar, investigating structures of the human body and posing the questions: Who are we? What are we?  - C.E.

Chelsea Ellis (b. 1987, Maine) is a photographic artist who lives and works in Rockland, Maine. She earned her BA in Photography from the University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME in 2012. Ellis has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions in Maine, including the House Support Itself exhibition by Lights Out Gallery and Fort Hall in Brunswick (2024), Chelsea Ellis and Todd Watts exhibition at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts in Portland (2023), Made Not Taken exhibition at the Gascoine Gallery in Monson (2022), and No Time exhibition at Ticonic Gallery in Waterville (2022). Ellis has had her work reviewed in the Portland Press Herald and Artscope Magazine