About
My name is Danielle Garza, and I also go by the moniker “Ellierex.” I am a Los Angeles-based artist working across painting, printmaking, collage, and installation. My practice encompasses dreamy, otherworldly murals and artworks inspired by the transcendental. I am interested in the nature of experience, philosophical inquiry, and the unseen.
A central part of my process incorporates the printmaking method known as paper marbling. This centuries-old technique—commonly seen in 15th-century book arts—involves floating paints onto a liquid surface to transfer kaleidoscopic designs onto paper. Traditional marbling often emphasizes repetition and control within technical patterns. My approach builds from these foundations but leans into intuition and unpredictability. Influenced by surrealist automatism, I use marbling to access organic forms and blur boundaries between inner and outer worlds.
In all my artworks, I aim to immerse viewers in the experience of fantasy and the symbolic.
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 in galleries 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.
