NYAB Event - Jeff Elrod “Rabbit Ears”

Jeff Elrod “Rabbit Ears”

Luhring Augustine Gallery

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In this exhibition Elrod presents a group of large-scale abstract paintings which all come from images first made on a computer screen. In his view, the twenty-first century is characterized by our engagement with the screen, which is illusionary space. Digital images will seem to possess depth, but in reality they are compressed and read as a flat surface.

Elrod’s practice as a painter is rooted in the tradition of American twentieth-century abstract painting and is simultaneously informed by the aesthetics of the digital environment he works in; the compressed space in his paintings articulates the moment when analogue meets digital. Using programs such as Illustrator or Photoshop he draws and reworks imagery that he then renders on canvas by hand, using a projector and tape. He paints over the taped out lines using any one of a variety of techniques, including spraying and digital printing; once he arrives at a point that satisfies him, he removes the tape to reveal his line drawing. In a recent evolution in his work Elrod uses ink jet printing on canvas, with little or no manual intervention.