About Elena Allee

BIOGRAPHY
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Elena Allee is an artist originally from New York City and Vermont, currently settled and working in Western Massachusetts, having arrived there via Oakland and Los Angeles, California, where, concomitant with her studio practice, she had a clothing label, designed theater sets, and ran a nightclub/alternative theater space among other endeavors.
 

    Elena received her BA in English and Spanish literature, with a second concentration in art, from Bennington College, and her MFA in painting from The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
 

    After years of showing her work in group and solo shows, Elena took time away from exhibiting, and cut down her studio time considerably for the last 16 years, to focus on working and raising her type one diabetic kid as a single mom. During this hiatus, she co-founded and co-directed a community education center and homeschooling co-operative, where she also taught art and writing.
 

    Elena is finally able to get back to more time in her studio (though full-time is still a couple of years away), and is currently working on a number of painting commissions and a series of large charcoal and pastel drawings of endangered species.

Elena is also co-owner of Luna Moth Studios.

https://www.lunamothstudios.com