Brighton, MA
About Elliot Portman:
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.
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
Education
- SUNY Binghamton, BA in Studio Art, Concentration in Drawing - Vestal, NY,2014
- Maimonides High School, High School Degree - Brookline, MA,2010
Press 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,