Elliot Portman
Brighton, MA
About the Artist
Eli Portman was born and raised in the greater Boston area. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a Bachelors Degree in studio art in the spring of 2014. Primarily focusing on drawing, Portman has also experimented with oil painting and woodblock printmaking. Since graduating, Portman returned to the Boston area, where he currently lives. He has taught art to children grades K-8, and has hung his pen and ink landscape drawings in galleries, shops and cafes throughout the greater Boston Area, including Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Newton, Boston, Dedham,…
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Eli Portman was born and raised in the greater Boston area. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a Bachelors Degree in studio art in the spring of 2014. Primarily focusing on drawing, Portman has also experimented with oil painting and woodblock printmaking. Since graduating, Portman returned to the Boston area, where he currently lives. He has taught art to children grades K-8, and has hung his pen and ink landscape drawings in galleries, shops and cafes throughout the greater Boston Area, including Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Newton, Boston, Dedham, Chelsea and Quincy. Portman has also done private commissions, and illustrated a children's book in late 2014.
Artist’s Work
2020
2019
Current-Spring 2018
The Bright-Eyed Adventurer Sits in the Hesitant Stillness and Feels the World Falter
By Elliot Portman
The Bright Eyed Adventurer Breathes In The Cold Air and Remembers While the Raccoon Glares and the Fox Sleeps
By Elliot Portman
Selected Exhibitions
- Galatea Fine Art Gallery NE Collective VI
South End, Boston, MA, 2015 - Newton Art Association, James King Bonnar Show, New Art Center
Newton, MA, 2015 - Ink Stains, Brookline Library, Main Branch
Brookline, MA, 2014 - Light, Form and Shadow: Spool MFG Gallery
Johnson City, NY, 2014 - Out of Reach, Jungle Science Gallery
Binghamton, NY, 2013
Press and Accolades
- Jenna Fisher, "5 New Brookline Artists To Watch" Brookline Wicked Local,
April 29th 2015 - Adriana Hammond, Brookline Hub, "Brookline Public Library Features Locally Inspired Art Collection"
December 9th 2014,
Education
- SUNY Binghamton, BA in Studio Art, Concentration in Drawing
Vestal, NY,2014 - Maimonides High School, High School Degree
Brookline, MA,2010
