Elliott Green is an artist who paints abstract and gesturally expressive landscape works that depict surreal geographic terrains. He is based in upstate New York. He was a recipient of the

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in 1993 and the

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in 2011. His work has been featured in magazines such as ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Biography

Green was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960 and studied literature and art history at the

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from 1978 to 1981. He moved to New York in 1981 and had his first solo shows in 1989 and 1991. In 2005 he moved to

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, where he currently works and lives. Green primarily exhibits his work in New York, but has exhibited in other U.S. states including Florida and California.

Career

Early work

Green's early work consists of figural drawings, prints, and paintings that depict crowds of people in a cartoon-like style, often in a humorous or subversive manner. Green has stated that he feels his early work was very influenced by his environment and that while he was working in his

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studio his drawings echoed the dense population around him.

Landscape paintings

Green first began painting landscape after being inspired by the vast panoramic landscapes while living in Italy in 2012. Critics have described his landscapes for their essentially abstract nature, where forms of mountains, clouds, water, and land are present yet never fully legible. His work has also been described as otherworldly, sci-fi, and as having a digital yet highly tactile appearance that comes from his creative use of sponges and palette knives while applying gradients of colors. His paintings have an expressive, gestural style and cohesive vocabulary of abstract shapes that reference geological formations and seem to blend the internal psychological states with the external world. His work shows the influences of

Surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

, traditional Chinese landscape painting, and

Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

Awards and fellowships

* BAU Institute, Cassis, France, 2017 * Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2016 *

, Rome, Italy, 2011–12 *

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

, 1993

Collections

Green's work is held in the permanent collection of the

Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to: Africa * Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi Asia East Asia * Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...

, Chicago, the

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1994 in Kansas City, Missouri. With a $5 million annual budget and approximately 75,000 visitors each year, it is Missouri's first and largest contemporary museum. Founders The core of the museum's perm ...

, the University of Colorado Fine Arts Galleries, and other venues.

References

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