Harper’s is happy to announce By no means Lose Your Shadow, Eliot Greenwald’s 2d solo presentation with the gallery. That includes a choice of new artwork on formed canvases and freestanding sculptural assemblages, By no means Lose Your Shadow exemplifies Greenwald’s prolific option to artwork making.
Discovering inspiration from eclectic assets—herbal phenomena, pseudoscience, prehistoric narratives, theoretical physics, and fashionable media—Greenwald conjures another truth. Thru repetition and kaleidoscopic patterns, Greenwald portrays scenes of a lone automotive coasting thru lush jungles or barren valleys, terrains he describes as “generic representations of location.” Above, dual planets go with the flow within the sky, illuminating the expansive landscapes. Each and every piece is done on non-rectangular helps with wavy, beveled edges and rounded corners. Some frames resemble the form of outsized eggs, as in seasonal egg and good mouse lure, whilst others are vignetted on the best quadrants, as in Lou’s portray and by no means lose your shadow. With a mixture of acrylic paint and oil stick, Greenwald generously applies his colourful palette, giving his compositions a physically and tactile presence. Via imbuing the artwork with chromatic depth and impasto surfaces, Greenwald embraces the hallucinatory overtones of his imagery, searching for to stimulate the revel in of synesthesia; it’s as though they might turn on all of the senses concurrently throughout the efficiency in their visible traits.
Amongst Greenwald’s iconic artwork are two life-size, freestanding sculptures, a go back to what the artist would believe his foundational observe. To build them, he affixed discovered gadgets and studio detritus to carved logs and branches. Some sections are lined in his signature vibrant hues whilst different spaces are left of their unaltered state, permitting the aesthetics of artifice and nature to commingle. The size of those assemblages inspires a figurative presence with an otherworldly attraction, as their contours hugely fluctuate from the human shape. 2 planets particularly hints at a couple of totem poles, with spear-like shapes stretching upward atop painted bases that resemble engorged pupils in blood-red irises.
Whilst Greenwald concurrently addresses topics of a primitive previous and sci-fi futurism, his formal methods and funny manner permit for a studio output that resists tidy classification. Merging fashionable phenomena with prehistoric motifs in ways in which recall the clunky props present in pre-computer, analog movie units or the stylings of tv methods like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, his paintings has a taste of postmodern simulacra that collapses historic types right into a size now not ruled by means of strict chronology. Reveling within the absurdity of his scenes, Greenwald invitations his target market to momentarily develop into the passenger of a vessel suspended in a continuum.