Sculpture
A random selection of sculpture by Elliott Earls.
Electronic Music Synth As A Critique Tool in Contemporary Art | Episode 30
Can understanding how synthesizers like the Minimoog and Nordlead shape sound help distinguish between “good” and “bad” in contemporary art? The “Earls ADSR Synthesis Model For The Evaluation of Works of Visual Art” is a tool to help the studio artist critically assess works of visual art. Issues of value and quality are notoriously problematic […]
How to Make a Formalist Avant-Garde Design/Art Object | Episode 21
What are the mechanics of making a formalist avant-garde design/art object? How is a the formailist avant-garde different than the historical avant-garde? how can you make more compelling art/design objects?
“Mini Cyclops With Torso” Limited Edition Sculpture Release Thru minislimited
This precision machined, hand-painted sculpture is produced in an edition of 3 signed and numbered copies. Measuring 4.2″(wide) x 5.1″ (high) x 1.4″ (deep), this sculpture has a very organic feel and a substantial weight for an object its’ size. This mini sculpture was produced by the artist Elliott Earls in advance of his […]
Cycloptical Power In A Culture Ruled By Narcissism (Source) Now Available Through minis limited
12″(tall) x 9″(wide) x 7″(deep) Plaster and pigment. This object is now available through minislimited.com. This is the source from which the June and July 2016 prints were drawn.
Limited Edition Sculpture by Elliott Earls Now Available
This untitled sculpture by Elliott Earls is now available through minislimited. This piece was inspired by the architectural ornament embedded in the facades at the Cranbrook Educational Community. This piece is precision machined in the studio of Elliott Earls and was released in an edition of 10 signed and numbered copies. This sculpture measures 4.25w […]
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 […]
“Studio Practice” Episode #4 Looks at Super Anti-Zero 12
The Studio Practice YouTube show and channel continues to take shape. Episode 4 is slightly longer form, clocking in at three minutes and thirty eight seconds. In this episode Elliott Earls discusses the manufacture of Super Anti-Zero 12 (Chromed), tours his machine shop and plays a hockshop version of the Hobbit Theme on the tin whistle. Twitter […]
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 […]
Super Anti-Zero 12 Limited Edition Aspen Panel Now Available Through MinisLimited
$3500.00 each Super Anti-Zero 12 is now available through www.minislimited.com. Each object is precision CNC machined from a solid block of ebonized Aspen. This object is limited to an edition of 10 signed and numbered copies. Available at www.minislimited.com Super Anti-Zero 12 is a limited edition low-relief sculptural object by Elliott Earls. Made from a stack laminated ebonized panel, each piece […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Hypertension Exhibition opens at Wayne State University
The James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History’s Elaine L. Jacob Gallery is pleased to present HYPERTENSION, April 26 through July 19, 2013. HYPERTENSION brings together multi-media artists and designers whose work reflects the blurring of artistic disciplines evident in our contemporary visual culture. The selected works disrupt boundaries between the cerebral and […]
“No Object is an Island” at Cranbrook Art Museum
The first exhibition in the newly renovated and expanded Cranbrook Art Museum explores Cranbrook’s continued influence in the world of contemporary art and design. No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection Opened November 11, 2011. The images above are from my installation for the exhibition. The exhibition paired the work of 50 leading […]