Featured Artist: Coby Ellison

Jaws of Life
Ceramic, glazes, gold luster

Coby is an artist, musician, and curator that lives and works in Saint Louis, Missouri. For the past six years, he has been investigating faux historical relationships and coincidences that occur with positions of power, divinity, conquest, faith and the ever-changing iconography of good and evil often through a “heavy metal” lens or a fantastic art aesthetic titled “The Babylon Report”.

Coby’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues including The Yerba Buena Art Center (San Francisco, CA), Ampersand International Arts (San Francisco CA,  and Paris, France), Western Front (Vancouver, B.C.), The Wichita Art Museum, Raw (Tucson, AZ).  His work has also  been published in journals such as Penny Ante and The Lumberyard. Coby received fine art degrees at Kansas State University (B.F.A. 1990 and M.F.A. 1996) and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1990) on full fellowship.