Museum Of Failure, Ellen Harvey

Ellen Harvey is a British artist with a keen sense of both art’s potential and its limitations. She was trained as a painter but also as an attorney, and fittingly her work balances an auteur’s faith with a lawyer’s skepticism. From her works for public spaces to her gallery-based practice, Harvey’s belief in the communicative power of art is leavened by a commendable awareness—and even explicit acknowledgment—of the potential for failure, missed connections, and misunderstandings.