"Lines
scratched into glossy, black enamel surfaces trace outlines of a city that forms
here and disintegrates there, marred by course, cement-like patches of polymer
and stippled with cascades of pastel dots forming ephemeral clouds out of refuse."
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"...these
heavily labored mixed-media paintings combine incredible draftsmanship with
physical brushwork and political comentary. They are glossy, big and dark, but
they are not all doom and gloom. They caution instead of grumble. ...they stimulate
as opposed to revile and offer a vision of the unseen side of an affluent society
immersed in technology and too eager to dispose of the past" CLICK
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"Elliott's
philosophical paintings comment on the leftovers of technology, the detritus
of life, the faults of our history. Their multiplex meanings challenge the viewer
to confront images that subvert our collective memory of nature and the sea
in particular, as an unspoiled sanctuary." CLICK
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"Jon
Elliott ['s...] intuitively constructed forms look like the shapes associated
with computer modeling programs, and they are typically laid down on solid-color
backgrounds in closely associated or spectacularly contrasted shades that also
manage to suggest the digital age."
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