Slog - Comments on Currently Hanging http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130 Eric Elliott's Artist's Studio: View from Easel (2008), oil on canvas, 36 by 36 inches At SOIL. (Gallery web site here.)... Copyright 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:59:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball Not feeling this one. The effective use of a tight color range bespeaks confidence, but the sharpness of the chair conflicts with the fuzzed-out, dauby impasto of the rest of the painting and tells me the artist is afraid to completely let go of formal specificity.

I need a drink.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130#c1046239 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130#c1046239 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:44:04 -0800 Comment by max solomon Giogio Morandi would feel this one.

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]]> jp http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130#c1047746 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130#c1047746 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:53:11 -0800 Comment by Eric Elliott The color is way off in this reproduction.

]]> Eric Elliott http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130#c1047781 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130#c1047781 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:20:32 -0800 Comment by Abigail Oh, HELLS YEAH!!! Yay, Eric! I knew who did this painting before I got to the caption because I recognized the studio but also because Eric has (especially recently) developed such a distinct painting style that there's no one else it could be!...I really love this one. Mr. Elliott is admirably restrained with color, and so humble with his compositions and subject matter. I love the steely baby blues and hints of siennas on the sink, and the little touches of pink on the bottle in front of the pale naples-yellow box in the foreground. Also the surface of the chair seat is perfect, and I love how selective the paint build-up is across the canvas...The whole image has the same soulful quietude as the best Gwen John paintings. Fucking bravo, dude. I hope someone gives him a butt-ton of money for this.

]]> Abigail http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130#c1048016 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/currently_hanging_130#c1048016 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:59:39 -0800