harvey - Dana Ellyn | Contemporary Narrative Painter

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harvey avenue

Abstract 20x20 acrylic painting with fractured shapes, bright colors, and crowd-like forms inspired by the memory of a Coney Island ferris wheel.

Harvey Avenue

11" x 13"

acrylic on mat board

$180

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December 2025

“Harvey Avenue” began as a figurative painting and was later repainted into abstraction. The original scene is no longer visible as a story, but still shapes the movement, color and structure of the work. The painting holds the memory of a place rather than the image of one.

The source image for this painting is a family photograph taken in Staten Island, New York in the mid-1970's. Dana Ellyn standing in her kiddie pool and spraying her sister with the hose.