Jon Elliott
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Artwork
"Expedition to Discover What is Missing" Acrylic and polymer on panel, 24x18" 2010
"Documenting the Space Between" Acrylic and polymer on panel, 18x24" 2010
"Once More, From the Beginning" 2009
"Pastime" Acrylic, collage and polymer on panel, 24x32" 2009
Detail: "Pastime"
Jon
Elliott
Artist's Statement
I have multiple philosophical motivations for making paintings. I have often set myself up in the role of social critic, examining the histories of culture and the conflicts and cooperations inherent in human behavior. Recently I've been taking perspectival steps around and away from my established strategies and motivations in order to examine my own role, and the role of contemporary art in general within the greater culture. And much like a project in self portraiture, some of these paintings approach the existential motivations that led me into being an artist in the first place. However, these new paintings have retained aspects of previous bodies of work, and much like many of my most admired writers of short stories, I am setting up simple, experimental narratives that attempt to take on complex topics.
Bio/Resume
Jon Elliott (b.1974 USA) studied Drawing/Painting at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and received a Masters Degree in Painting/Printmaking from RISD in 2001. Since 1998 his work has been exhibited extensively nationally, as well as in Berlin and London. Recent solo exhibitions include "Continental Drift" at 31GRAND Gallery, NY in 2007, and "The Pursuit of Happiness" the Freedman Gallery, Albright College in 2009. Recent group shows include "Giving Face" at Nicholas Robinson Gallery, Zoo Art Fair, Roebling Hall booth at the Royal Academy, London, "From Our Living Room To Yours" at Goff and Rosenthal, Berlin, "Signs of the Apocalypse" at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, and SIGGRAPH Asia, a festival of Arts, Animation, and Technology in Yokahama Japan. Jon has been featured in Esquire Magazine, and numerous other publications.
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