Elaine Gan

©Chris Baker

It’s A Hard Knock Life (For Us), 2004
Carefully constructed aluminum and rubber scaffold structures appear to support three cherry trees while responding to their growth, evolving and changing form as the trees flower and gain foliage over the course of the exhibition. For this installation, a manmade, geometric structure is woven into an organic form creating a fragile symbiosis between the natural movement of the trees and the responsive alterations of the scaffolding.

Born 1967
Lives and works in New York, NY

Education
1988 B.A., Architecture, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
1986 Harvard University Summer Program, Boston, MA

Elaine Gan has been exhibiting since 2000 and has presented her installations at: Pier 54/ West Side Highway, New York, NY (2003); Fire Island, N Y (2003); Huschke Road, Liberty, NY (2002); Visionaire Gallery, New York, NY (2002); Washington Square Park, New York, NY (2001); P.S.122 Gallery, New York, NY (2000); and SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY (2000).

Elaine was the recipient of an Artists Space Independent Project Grant in 2003.