Elliott Green
Syncretism
Elliott Green was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. He attended the University of Michigan, where he studied World literature and Art history. He moved to New York City in 1981 and has been making paintings ever since. 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. The poet 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.” Elliott Green has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Jules Guerin Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Residency, a The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, a residency at the BAU Institute, Cassis, France, a MacDowell Colony Residency, and three residencies at Yaddo.
Amanuensis 2019 Oil on canvas 49 x 90 inches
Blue Tonnage 2018 Oil on canvas 28 x 37 inches
Burningface Oil on canvas 26 x 16 inches
Chute
2019 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches
Engulfed
2019 Oil on canvas 16 x 12 inches
Dust Cloud 2019 Oil on canvas 24 x 16 inches
Hatching Abomination 2018 Oil on canvas 48 x 76 inches
Master of Emptiness 2019 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches
Fireflood Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches
Flying Ice
2017 Oil on canvas 34 x 42 inches
Outlet
2019 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches
Over and Above 2019 Oil on canvas 33 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches
Scarf
2019 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches
Ram Water 2017 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches
Seed-Water 2016 Oil on canvas 60 x 36 inches
Sleeping Deposit 2019 Oil on canvas 16 x 12 inches
Zippo
2019 Oil on canvas 48 x 76 inches
Coke
2019 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches
Evaporants 2019 Oil on linen 36 x 80 inches
Clownfish
2018 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches
Lovely Vitamins and Charming Minerals 2015 Oil on canvas 65 x 65 inches
Resting Visionary 2017 Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches
Rippling Crust 2017 Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches
Old Plant
2019 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches
Black Glacier 2017 Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches
Mammatus 2015 Oil on canvas 65 x 65 inches
Syncretism 2015 Oil on canvas 65 x 65 inches
Eminence
2015 Oil on canvas 76 x 54 inches
Oxygen
2017 Oil on canvas 36 x 40 inches
Burning Rain 2018 Oil on linen 30 x 40 inches
Thunderwake 2012 Oil on canvas 40 x 80 inches
Splash
2015 Oil on canvas 76 x 54 inches
Spark River 2016 Oil on canvas 36 x 40 inches