James Ellwanger is a multi-media artist, using acrylic, steel, limestone, digital platforms, and textiles. Ellwanger creates large and small-scale works, and his use of pattern creates both large and small spatial explosions. His newer textile “paintings” are subtle conversations of space, color, and material. The nuanced textures that exist within the frame are about composition and hue. These abstract “land”scapes, stitched in organic and geometric forms, render their stitching to form contours that delineate sharply, giving the eye fields of contrast, and offering a dynamism unexpected in the two-dimensional.