New Thought Form Folk is a solo exhibition by artist Theo Ellsworth at GR2 Gallery from June 21st, 2025 - July 8th, 2025.
Art goes live online at 12 noon PT on 6/21/25.
Theo Ellsworth - Secret Life
184 pages, 8.9 x 6.3 inches. Hardcover, black and white pages.
An uncanny and eye-opening journey into a mysterious building, adapted from a short story by Jeff VanderMeer
To the west: trees. To the east: a mall. North: fast food. South: darkness. And at the centre is The Building, an office building wherein several factions vie for dominance. Inside, the walls are infiltrated with vines, a mischief of mice learn to speak English, and something eerie happens once a month on the fifth floor. In Secret Life, Theo Ellsworth uses a deep-layered style to interpret Nebula award-winning author Jeff VanderMeer’s short story. What emerges is a mind-bending narrative that defamiliarizes the mundanity of office work and makes the arcane rituals of The Building home.
When his manager borrows his pen for a presentation, a man is driven to unspeakable acts as he questions the role the pen has played in his workplace success. The despised denizens of the second floor develop their own tongue, incomprehensible to everyone else in The Building. A woman plants a seed of insurgency that quickly permeates every corner of the building with its sweet, nostalgic perfume.
With deft insight, Secret Life observes the sinister individualism of bureaucratic settings in contrast with an unconcerned natural world. As the narrative progresses you may begin to suspect that the world Ellsworth has brought to life with hypnotic visuals is not so secret after all; in fact, it’s uncannily similar to our own.
Theo Ellsworth - "Spook Home” Art Zine
28 pages, black and white with select color.
Zine measures 7.5 x 5.5 inches.
Theo Ellsworth - The Understanding Monster (Book Three)
64 pages, measures 9 x 11.25 tall. Hardcover, full color.
This highly-anticipated third book completes Theo Ellworth's epic adventure, which the New York Times calls "an urgent (and often very funny) attempt to explain a coocoo-rococo cosmology made up of garbled fragments of role-playing games, Transformers episodes, relaxation exercises and horror movies."
Eleanor Davis, author of How to be Happy, writes: "Theo Ellsworth's comics don't make normal sense; they make a sort of super-psychic sense. His stories are filled with pure terror, pure hope, and pure, weird, unwavering love."
In The Understanding Monster - Book Three, our hero, Izadore, awakes to find his mind, body and soul reunited. The last Monks of the Imaginary Man lead him on a journey beyond Toy Mountain to discover the true nature of the relationship between creativity and reality.
Theo Ellsworth - "House Shaped Hole” Art Zine (Issue #1)
36 pages, black and white with select color.
Zine measures 7.5 x 5.5 inches.
Made in collaboration with Sean Christensen and Theo Ellsworth.
Theo Ellsworth - "Super Friends” Limited Edition Print
Signed art print. Edition of 99.
Artwork measures 10 x 10 inches.
One Little Goat - Theo Ellsworth and Dara Horn
152 pages, 9.8 x 6.9 inches. Hardcover, black and white pages.
A lost afikoman, a time-traveling talking goat, and a never-ending seder illuminate the meaning of Passover in Dara Horn’s hilariously deadpan graphic novel.
A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman―the hidden matzah required to end the meal―and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end. Six months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated underneath their seder, and their afikoman is stuck in one of them. Now the family’s “wise child” must travel down with the goat through centuries of previous Passovers to find it―and to discover the questions he needs to start asking. black-and-white throughout
