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WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER ELLIS IS DEAD

April 12, 2013 - May 4, 2013

Essay by Exhibition Essay

Reception:
Friday, April 12 7-11pm

Artists Involved:
Jordan Tannahill and William Christopher Ellis

APRIL 12- MAY 4, 2013

Reception:
Friday, April 12 7-11pm

Artists Involved:
Jordan Tannahill and William Christopher Ellis

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William Christopher Ellis is Dead investigates the malleability of biography, portraiture, and the artist-muse relationship. Jordan Tannahill attempts to fill in the gaps of his partner Will’s life before they met and became lovers; fetishizing his humble beginnings in PEI to imagining a life for him as a Maritime hustler-turned-tragic-David Lynch-heroine who moves to the big city to make it in the movies. Filmed over the two years, it is both a love letter and a document of their relationship thus-far.