“Fides” is a 48 X 96″ painting by Elliott Earls on black ground glass.
This painting is based on an edition of porcelain figurines I made for my exhibition at the Wolfsonian Museum. The image below shows the original figures in situ.
The Installation from which "Fides" was Derived
Detail View of Beeswax Bust from Elegy For The Collapse of the Empire
This bust is wrought from unfiltered beeswax, dead bees, horse hair and linen string. The piece is entitled Colony Collapse Disorder, and draws on hybrid lowbrow/neoclassical formal language. This bust was the central component in my larger installation at the Milan Triennial entitled Elegy for the Collapse of the Empire (Detroit, Craft and Disintegration). […]
Elegy for the Collapse of the Empire at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan
In early June 2011, I was asked to participate in an exhibition entitled Graphic Design Worlds at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. On January 19th, 2011 I traveled with Cranbrook graduate students Nicole Killian and Wesley Taylor to Milan for the installation and the subsequent opening. In December 2008, I produced a piece entitled “Thoughts on Democracy” for the […]
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