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Art Basel today announced the gallery list for its 2016 show in Miami Beach, comprising 269 leading international galleries, drawn from 29 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Clare Newton’s Spirit of Legends, which is free to attend, depicts eight athletes as Gods and Goddesses from Ancient Greece.
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On September 13th, 2014 David Ellis and Kevin Earl Taylor will be opening a new exhibition of work, "Spirit Animal," at Subliminal Projects
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Shepard Fairey, Banksy and more have work in the San Diego museum exhibition, but not everyone seems happy about such artists and the establishment getting cozy.
Read MoreOn September 13th, 2014 David Ellis and Kevin Earl Taylor will be opening a new exhibition of work, "Spirit Animal," at Subliminal Projects
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David Ellis paints music. This may seem like the hardest thing in the world to render, but Ellis’s career has been finding ways to turn fine art into
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Artists are magicians in their own right for making something from nothing, for infusing the everyday mundane tools and objects with poetic meaning
Read MoreShepard Fairey, Banksy and more have work in the San Diego museum exhibition, but not everyone seems happy about such artists and the establishment getting cozy.
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What started out a decade ago as a ragtag bunch of 25 artists in rural North Carolina is now one of the hottest group exhibitions in the Chelsea
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Artists David Ellis and Blu blended two art forms that rarely meet: street art and animation.
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Even though the giant king cobra who, in a flurry of news coverage and twitter posts, escaped the Bronx Zoo in March was found a few weeks later
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The Old Jail Art Center Harry Geffert September 25, 2010 – January 23, 2011
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Following GO EAST–the first incarnation in a two-part "gallery swap" project with NYC's Joshua Liner Galler—Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to announce
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David Ellis is an artist born into a family immersed in music. In his youth Ellis had little patience with piano lessons or reading sheet music. Instead he absorbed everything on The Super Mix, a Saturday night radio program broadcast from the nearby Fort Bragg military base. Each week a new cassette tape of emerging New York hip-hop found its way into the life of a child growing up in a log house in North Carolina. By the time Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 released The Message, Ellis was writing rhymes and banging out beats with his friends on the desks at school. Things have since become much louder.
Ellis' work continues to interpret music and sound. His paintings are often recorded in a form of digital time-lapse animation Ellis calls motion painting. Like jazz, these works provide Ellis with an opportunity to combine ideas with collaborators or work solo within a form that promotes improvisation and spontaneity. For a recent commission the artist painted a truck from sunup to sundown over five consecutive days. Ellis often stages events when exhibiting his motion paintings, inviting musicians, performers, and sound artists to interpret the work live. His motion painting, Paint on Trucks in a World in Need of Love was recently exhibited at MoMA.
Ellis' paintings are frequently improvised. He works directly on the walls of spaces that remain open to the public during installation and shares the making of the work with viewers. The experience is much like a band playing in front of a passing audience.
Ellis further explores sound with kinetic installations that produce analogue sequences in rhythm.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
