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ELLIOTT GREEN

Reverb

First Saturday Gallery Opening: 5 January and 2 February from 5 - 9pm.

21 December 2018 - 22 February 2019

ELLIOTT GREEN, Charisma, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Charisma, 2018

oil on canvas

66h x 128w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Brainheart, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Brainheart, 2018

oil on linen

54h x 74w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Babygrass, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Babygrass, 2018

oil on linen

36h x 80w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Lead Belly, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Lead Belly, 2018

oil on linen

36h x 80w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Deep Breath, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Deep Breath, 2018

oil on linen

36h x 80w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Blue Weight, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Blue Weight, 2018

oil on linen

28h x 37w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Performer, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Performer, 2018

oil on linen

36h x 40w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Elastic Gardens, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Elastic Gardens, 2018

oil on linen

30h x 40w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Plans, 2017

ELLIOTT GREEN

Plans, 2017

oil on linen

36h x 26w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Chronogel, 2017

ELLIOTT GREEN

Chronogel, 2017

oil on linen

16h x 32w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Fluid, 2017

ELLIOTT GREEN

Fluid, 2017

oil on linen

17h x 28w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Deep Lightning, 2019

ELLIOTT GREEN

Deep Lightning, 2019

oil on linen

15h x 20w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Glue, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Glue, 2018

oil on linen

15h x 20w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Cooker, 2018

ELLIOTT GREEN

Cooker, 2018

oil on linen

15h x 20w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Translucent Mountains, 2014

ELLIOTT GREEN

Translucent Mountains, 2014

oil on linen

12h x 18w in

ELLIOTT GREEN, Placement, 2014

ELLIOTT GREEN

Placement, 2014

oil on linen

12h x 18w in

Press Release

21 December 2018 (New Orleans, LA)  JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY proudly presents Reverb, the premier solo exhibition of exhibition of Hudson River Valley-based painter Elliott Green. Following his debut at the gallery in Oscillation curated by Dan Cameron as an official Prospect 4 New Orleans satellite exhibition, Green presents fourteen recent paintings. The exhibition will be on view from 21 December 2018 through 22 February 2019 with Arts District New Orleans’ (ADNO) First Saturday Gallery Openings on 5 January and 2 February from 5 - 9pm.

 

Elliott Green continues to explore beyond the established boundaries of painted landscape with this recent selection of work that features interwoven sequences of abstract bands flowing in motion and vibrating with color and light. A rhythmic undercurrent circulates through these environments, and an overlay of various solidified forms stabilize that pulsing energy. Green re-animates the landscape. The places in Green’s paintings are quietly inhabited with aspects of personification. In the abstract shapes of mountains, water forms and skies there are glimpses of expressive emotion imbedded in curves that hint at the trace of eyes, mouths and bodily postures. These scenarios are in perpetual motion with mountainous forms pitching and swaying on sinuous courses and skies that fleet through shifting moods. The metaphorical connection between the psyche and the landscape give these paintings an active and interesting depth and dynamism that transcends the face of surface.

 

Elliott Green was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960 and has been making paintings in New York since 1981. After spending a year in Rome in 2012, his work developed a new sense of space and landscape, characterized by panoramic, far-reaching vistas, and geophysical features like mountains, reservoirs and skies that seem to melt impossibly into pure gesture. In his recent work, the conventions of landscape are upended to produce a visual experience of equal parts gestural energy, emotion, memory, and metaphor.

 

Until a decade ago, Green believed that his, “home was in his head, and the ideas and images it produced would be generated independently wherever he went”.  He is now aware that, “every new environment he enters in some way influences the way he thinks and the paintings he makes.”

 

Jana Prikryl notes, “Elliott Green’s paintings appear to be in continuous motion, the way animals, plants, and ultimately rocks and mountains are in continuous motion, even when our human vision fails to apprehend it. Placing great thick gestures of paint amid minute intricacies and vice versa, his compositions demonstrate the movement of the universe on both the macro and the micro scales.”

 

For more information, press or sales inquiries please contact the gallery director Matthew Weldon Showman at 504.343.6827 or matthew@jonathanferraragallery.com. Please join the conversation with JFG on Facebook (@JonathanFerraraGallery), Twitter (@JFerraraGallery), and Instagram (@JonathanFerraraGallery) via the hashtags:  #ElliottGreen, #JonathanFerraraGallery and #ArtsDistrictNewOrleans.