Eric Elliott
Eric Elliott uses the objects that surround him as a point of departure, and their structures become frameworks upon which he can play with explorations of paint, form, abstraction, space, light, atmosphere, unification and dissolution. Elliott lives in Grand Junction, Colorado where he is an Associate Professor of painting and drawing at Colorado Mesa University. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Washington in Seattle, and his BA from the University of California, Berkeley. Elliott completed a yearlong art residency at the Jerusalem Studio School, Israel in 2014. He was the 2009 winner of the Behnke Foundation's Neddy Artist Fellowship, received the Seattle Art Museum's 2008 Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award, and was in the 2009 Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Basil Plant Still Life #1, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 18”x18”
Basil Plant Still Life #2, 2018, Oil on Canvas, 18”x18”
Basil Plant Still Life #3, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 18”x18”
Color Variation #1, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 11”x14”
Color Variation #2, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 11”x14”
Color Variation #3, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 11”x14”
Color Variation #4, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 11”x14”
“The world we see is made up of a complex network of interlocking abstract shapes, and through observational painting, I explore the interactions between the colors, shapes, and edges that surround us.”
— Eric Elliot