Ellen Wagner

ewagner@hfg-offenbach.de

T +49 (0)69.800 59-226

F +49 (0)69.800 59-202

Main building, room 108

Discipline

Screen Printing

Subject/Area

Faculty

Art

Function

Teacher for Special Tasks

Extern

printnow-riotlater.com
@printnowriotlater

Vita

Ellen Wagner (*1978 in Soltau) studied visual communication with a focus on illustration at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and worked as a layout artist and illustrator on a freelance basis after receiving her diploma. Together with Axel Rössler, she initiated various screen-printing projects and founded the screen-printing label »Print now - Riot later« with him in 2014 during a five-year stay in Tucson/Arizona, which they now continue in Maintal. Their joint work specialises in textile screen printing - especially repeat printing on yard goods - but they also produce serigraphic works on paper and free artistic projects. Since the winter semester of 2022, Ellen Wagner has been a teacher for special tasks at the HfG Offenbach in the field of screen printing together with Axel Rössler

Projekte

Piatti Anniversary light

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Swiss graphic artist and illustrator Celestino Piatti in January 2021, Ellen Wagner and Axel Rössler, together with Piatti's daughter Barbara, developed the idea (and later the design) of a reading lamp with a striking owl motif. Piatti is best known in Germany for his more than 6300 book covers for dtv - the "feathered owl" adorned the cover of the dtv catalogue in 1968.

Fabric screen print on organic cotton, mounted on lampshade foil. Limited to 100 copies

Apple, Medlar & Quince (2019)

A visit to the exhibition »Harwood Steiger - Fabrics of the West« (Tucson/USA 2018) was the initial spark for the fabric yard goods printing at Print now - Riot later. The fruit motifs in the repeat are a tribute to Steiger's textile printing art of the 1960s and are the first multicoloured yard goods fabrics to be printed in Ellen Wagner and Axel Rössler's newly established screen printing workshop in Maintal in 2019.

Screen printing on fabric yardage

Apple, Medlar & Quince (2019)

A visit to the exhibition »Harwood Steiger - Fabrics of the West« (Tucson/USA 2018) was the initial spark for the fabric yard goods printing at Print now - Riot later. The fruit motifs in the repeat are a tribute to Steiger's textile printing art of the 1960s and are the first multicoloured yard goods fabrics to be printed in Ellen Wagner and Axel Rössler's newly established screen printing workshop in Maintal in 2019.

Screen printing on fabric yardage

Southwesten (2021)

Large-format wall hanging as a vehicle for an autobiographical narrative. Differences, interrelationships and commonalities of a life in Tucson with its strongly Mexican cultural scene and the familiar Hessian surroundings are depicted in collage form. The work was funded as part of a project grant from the Hessische Kulturstiftung and exhibited for the first time in October 2021 in the Freitagsküche.

Printed in six colours on organic canvas (approx. 145 x 70cm)

Ashdecon (2021)

For this screen print edition, simple geometric scenes created in Cinema 4D were played out using the Redshift render mode 'world position pass'. The current camera position is represented by certain colours with regard to the distance to the centre of the scene. What sounds like a dull technique at first, results in quite unusual aesthetics that can be reproduced excellently in screen printing.

Series of six screen prints, 45 x 60cm