Elliott Green: Syncretism

Elliott Green

Syncretism

Elliott Green was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. He attended the University of Michigan, where he studied World literature and Art history. He moved to New York City in 1981 and has been making paintings ever since.

After spending a year in Rome in 2012, his work developed a new sense of space and landscape, characterized by panoramic, far-reaching vistas, and geophysical features like mountains, reservoirs and skies that seem to melt impossibly into pure gesture. In his recent work, the conventions of landscape are upended to produce a visual experience of equal parts gestural energy, emotion, memory, and metaphor.

The poet Jana Prikryl notes, “Elliott Green’s paintings appear to be in continuous motion, the way animals, plants, and ultimately rocks and mountains are in continuous motion, even when our human vision fails to apprehend it. Placing great thick gestures of paint amid minute intricacies and vice versa, his compositions demonstrate the movement of the universe on both the macro and the micro scales.”

Elliott Green has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Jules Guerin Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Residency, a The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, a residency at the BAU Institute, Cassis, France, a MacDowell Colony Residency, and three residencies at Yaddo.

Amanuensis 2019 Oil on canvas 49 x 90 inches

Blue Tonnage 2018 Oil on canvas 28 x 37 inches

Burningface Oil on canvas 26 x 16 inches

Chute

2019 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches

Engulfed

2019 Oil on canvas 16 x 12 inches

Dust Cloud 2019 Oil on canvas 24 x 16 inches

Hatching Abomination 2018 Oil on canvas 48 x 76 inches

Master of Emptiness 2019 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches

Fireflood Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches

Flying Ice

2017 Oil on canvas 34 x 42 inches

Outlet

2019 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches

Over and Above 2019 Oil on canvas 33 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches

Scarf

2019 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches

Ram Water 2017 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches

Seed-Water 2016 Oil on canvas 60 x 36 inches

Sleeping Deposit 2019 Oil on canvas 16 x 12 inches

Zippo

2019 Oil on canvas 48 x 76 inches

Coke

2019 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches

Evaporants 2019 Oil on linen 36 x 80 inches

Clownfish

2018 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches

Lovely Vitamins and Charming Minerals 2015 Oil on canvas 65 x 65 inches

Resting Visionary 2017 Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches

Rippling Crust 2017 Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches

Old Plant

2019 Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches

Black Glacier 2017 Oil on linen 12 x 16 inches

Mammatus 2015 Oil on canvas 65 x 65 inches

Syncretism 2015 Oil on canvas 65 x 65 inches

Eminence

2015 Oil on canvas 76 x 54 inches

Oxygen

2017 Oil on canvas 36 x 40 inches

Burning Rain 2018 Oil on linen 30 x 40 inches

Thunderwake 2012 Oil on canvas 40 x 80 inches

Splash

2015 Oil on canvas 76 x 54 inches

Spark River 2016 Oil on canvas 36 x 40 inches