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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: ELEANOR GILPATRICK

Eleanor Gilpatrick’s first career was as professor at the School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). She had won prizes for painting and draftsmanship in high school and at the Educational Alliance in New York City, but chose to study the social sciences in college and graduate school. She eventually became an expert in health care policy and human resources, authored four books (listed on Amazon.com), directed a masters program in health services administration, and pioneered courses in critical thinking and writing.

Her second career is as a contemporary realist painter. After many years she followed her heart back to her first love, painting, She says, ' I never looked back. I followed my passion for the glory of the real world and studied color theory and composition.' Her work is diverse; but has an identifiable sensibility created by her response to visual reality. In 2007 her muse asked her to show the contrasts in the world: the modern sublime, where beauty and terror combine. Her work entered the ranks of artists who speak out about the world, especially people in the wars we enter. So you can find landscapes reflecting the places she has been to in the world, portraits of people who captured her attention, still lifes full of energy, abstracts that express her love of the paint and the brush, but also statements about the issues of our time. She has had solo shows in Manhattan; and has been in over 35 juried shows; her work is in over 57 private collections. “The Shell Monument,” was the August selection for the 2007 Emerging Artists Calendar.