Exhibitions
Website record keeping can be a profound form of drudgery. So, although this should be an exhaustive selection of exhibitions by Elliott Earls, it is not. We have better things to do. A random selection of exhibitions containing the work of Elliott Earls will have to suffice until there’s nothing else to do but re-populate a website.
Good Weather. Suburban Context Aggressively Contemporary Art | Episode 26
Good Weather is an artist run contemporary art space in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The Founder and Curator is Haynes Riley. In this episode as Elliott Earls prepares for his exhibit at Good Weather, we take a close look at this unique space. We examine how family, suburbia and southern living contribute to a truly […]
“Cyclops In White” Work In Progress for @goodweathr
Limited edition prints available drawn from this painting at www.minislimited.com
Space Study for Good Weather Installation
Working ⚡️hard⚡️on the work for my mans @goodweathr. Here is the 3D model I built of the space. This is the ABSOLUTE first pass at the space. This ain’t it yo. But imma tune that shit up ⚔️💯⚔️. #painting #art #installationart#spacedesign #design #interiordesign
ACE by Elliott Earls
This piece was completed in May 2014 prior to a group show that I was part of at Wasserman Projects. The piece is machined from a single billet of HDU. The bronze triple-head is a variation of the cyclops theme that has recurred throughout my work for nearly 25 years. The letterforms are expoy […]
Super Anti-Zero 12 (Chrome) – Edition of 5
This chromed HDU sculpture was billet milled by Elliott Earls from a solid block of high density urethane foam in an edition of five. Each copy is signed and numbered by the artist. This piece was first exhibited at the Downtown Art Fair in Manhattan through Wasserman Projects. This piece is available through minislimited. Twitter […]
Elliott Earls Live at University of Georgia
Elliott Earls live at University of Georgia with Benjamin Teague on Mandolin and Jordan Dalton on Bass. The embedded video clip is from Elliott’s arrangement of Cluck Old Hen.
Levitation And The Blood of The Lamb – Chromogenic Print by Elliott Earls
I continue to re-populate my site with work from the archive. This Large C-Print on aluminum was produced for my residency at the University of Georgia. During the residency I worked with graduate students, performed at the State Theater and had an exhibition at the Gallery in the art school. This piece was one […]
Fides a Painting by Elliott Earls
“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.
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). […]
Elliott Earls Installation at Collider
Documentation of my march 2012 installation at the University of Akron Folk Hall. “The Collider Exhibition Series examines the impact, implications and inspiration the phenomenon generally categorized under the umbrella term New Media within design practice and fine arts.” Twitter Instagram YouTube Gold Boots from Elliott Earls Collider Installation https://vimeo.com/119240316 Pictures from the Installation Detail of […]
East Tennessee University 2014 Fletcher Exhibition
I was the sole juror for the 2014 Fletcher Exhibition at East Tennessee University. I found the task exceedingly difficult. The work submitted was excellent. Instrumentalist art must, by definition, engage its audience with difficult questions. We need look no further than the work of the proto-designer, photographer and artist John Heartfield. In Heartfield’s […]
Wasserman Projects Group Exhibition: ComicRelief
Comic Relief: Elliott Earls, Diana Thorneycroft, Michael Scoggins June 7 – August 8 Group Exhibition As an independent artist and as an Artist-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Elliott Earls has worked hard to engage issues of power, desire and commerce. His work is focused on the relationships between power, technology and media. Beginning in […]
“King” from ComicRelief Exhibition
Prior to the exhibition ComicRelief at WassermanProjects, I spent a lot of time considering methods to extend graphic language into three dimensional objects. I think my work compositionally, has been marked by a simple binary. One portion of my work has relied on an almost baroque compositional sensibility, while the other has been simple. This is a very long way […]
Elliott Earls Portrait of George Washington at Butter Projects
The Detroit News reviews Butter Projects latest exhibition Rising & Falling, which features Elliott Earls Portrait of George Washington After Rembrandt Peale.
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 […]
Liberty Weeps Featured in New York Times
“Elliott Earls’s reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” practically screams. A little girl seems to be crying, her eye bruised, with an American flag in the background and two words framing her figure: “Liberty Weeps.” The color scheme is red, white and blue, but patriotic pride has been supplanted by sadness. Elliott Earls’s poster “Liberty […]