Day & Night Projects is pleased to present Atlanta artist Ellie Dent’s latest exhibition, Subject & Subjected. Subject & Subjected focuses on the relationship between doctor and patient, engaging viewers with painting, sculpture, and participatory installation. Dent’s embroidery and beadwork on gently used hospital gowns pinpoints and comforts evidence of trauma. Lush miniature paintings of endoscopies are viewable though a magnifying device of the artist’s design. These and other artworks impart a simultaneous presence and absence of the human body, raising conversations about mortality, trauma, and control. 

Subject & Subjected will be on view at Day & Night Projects from September 6 through September 29. Gallery hours are 12–5 pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment.

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 7–10 pm

Ellie Dent (b. 1991, Baltimore, MD) is an artist working in the mediums of painting and sculpture. By working with appropriated materials from hospitals, her work explores the themes of the body, the abject, pain, confession, and trauma. Dent received a BFA in painting, drawing, and printmaking from Towson University in 2013; and an MFA from the University of Georgia in 2017. Dent’s artworks have been exhibited at the Georgia Museum of Art, with Marcia Wood Gallery, and Satellite Projects during Art Basel Miami 2015. Her work has been published in Hyperallergic, ArtsATL and SciArt Magazine.