About

My name is Danielle Garza and I also go by the moniker "Ellierex." I am a Los Angeles-based artist utilizing collage, installation, painting, and printmaking. My practice encompasses psychedelic-looking murals and artworks inspired by surrealism, consciousness, liminal spaces, philosophy, and esotericism.

I am an avid practitioner of the printmaking process known as paper marbling. This centuries-old process involves floating paints onto a liquid surface to transfer kaleidoscopic designs onto paper. I combine traditional marbling techniques with my own abstract and innovative approaches, embracing the intuition of automatism adopted by the early surrealists.

In all my artworks, I aim to immerse viewers in the experience of fantasy and the symbolic otherworld. 

Among my creative achievements are large-scale installation public artworks, including commissions of two 3-D collage murals for the San Francisco offices of Facebook/Meta, a lounge mural in the Los Angeles International Airport, a permanent bus wrap for The City of West Hollywood, and an 11-room temporary installation series for Hong Kong Times Square.

I've created over fifteen album covers for musical recording artists, print designs for film and television, and exhibited throughout galleries primarily across the United States. My works are in private collections in New York City, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Sweden, and Australia. I have a BFA from the University of Southern California and I periodically teach workshops on paper marbling and experimental techniques in printmaking.