Slog - Comments on In/Visible Is Up: Eric Eley's Remake of the World http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/invisible_is_up_eric_eleys_remake_of_the Eric Eley struggles with illusion. He doesn't like it. He's a facts man, and the depth in his resin drawings is literal depth, with pigment embedded in layers of resin. Plane Drift, resin and dry pigment, 2007 "I'm showing you what I want to show you," he says of his outer-spacey geometric abstractions, which share affinities with Julie Mehretu's works. These are maps only of themselves, he likes to say. "This isn't a piece of a larger world." He used to be certain about that. But now, his lines, points, and planes are beginning to lead off the edges... Copyright 2008 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:30:24 -0800 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:28:49 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr.Fabulust! VASAS: (Vague and Stupid Art Speak)
“I’m showing you what I want to show you,”
Cool Show though...

]]> Mr.Fabulust! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/invisible_is_up_eric_eleys_remake_of_the#c928095 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/invisible_is_up_eric_eleys_remake_of_the#c928095 Visual Art Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:58:40 -0800 Comment by Amelia I can't stand this. It looks like what I did in high school on photoshop.

]]> Amelia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/invisible_is_up_eric_eleys_remake_of_the#c928114 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/invisible_is_up_eric_eleys_remake_of_the#c928114 Visual Art Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:02:53 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball The resin-pigment works have some promise, but I need to see them in real life.

The installation is abysmal. If I saw that in real life, my life would end.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/invisible_is_up_eric_eleys_remake_of_the#c929513 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/invisible_is_up_eric_eleys_remake_of_the#c929513 Visual Art Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:28:49 -0800