JEFF ELROD
The work of American abstract painter Jeff Elrod (b. 1966) is based on the combination and interweaving of digital and analogue practices. Working in large-scale formats, he uses basic editing programs like Photoshop or Illustrator and adopts their typical forms of digital imagery. Elrod then transposes these computer designs on canvas by using ‘classical’ techniques such as painting, drawing or spraying, sometimes even printing them directly onto the canvas. His works thereby capture a moment when analogue and digital production clash, connecting the profound history of painting, abstraction and digital movement. In a recent series of works, Elrod alienates initially computer-generated drawings into blurry, vague images that eliminate any coherence.
‘Elrod’s technique has modified in the past decade as the tricks of Photoshop have evolved – color gradients, spray effects, and even the option of scanning a potential background scrap that he has found in his studio all now crop up in his large-scale works, compounding the complexity of transferring the image onto the canvas in his Sunset Park studio. Nevertheless, Elrod’s mediation still happens with his use of the mouse between him and the machine.’
C. Bollen, in ‘The New Abstract: Jeff Elrod’, in Interview Magazine, 2014
Image: Mudhoney, 2019, inkjet, acrylic and spray paint on linen, 200.2 x 139.7 cm.; 79 x 55 in. Photo: Charles Duprat
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1966
Born in Dallas, USA
1991
University of Texas, Denton
1992
Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Lives and works in Marfa and New York, USA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, San Juan
Birmingham Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Marciano Collection, Los Angeles
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
The Menil Collection, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2021
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2020
The Last Handshake
Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
2019
Jeff Elrod and Boris Mikhailov: TWO ARTIST BOOKS, Published by H2P | Hetzler Holzwarth Publications
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2017
Simon Lee Gallery, London
2016
Figment
Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz
Galleria Christian Stein, Milan
This Brutal World
Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2015
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (catalogue)
2014
ESP
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris (catalogue)
Luhring Augustine, New York
2013
Simon Lee Gallery, London (catalogue)
ReMap 4, Athens
Nobody Sees Like Us
MoMA PS1, New York
2012
Echo Paintings
The Journal Gallery, New York
2011
Letters from the Sky
Galerie Jean-Luc + Takako Richard, Paris
El Espectro
Compact Gallery, San Luis Obispo
2010
The Flower Thief
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
2009
Focus: Jeff Elrod
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
2008
New Paintings
Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2006
Fingers Never Stop
Texas Gallery, Houston
New Paintings
Fredericks and Freiser, New York
2002
Analog Paintings
Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2001
Flatland
Paolo Curti & Co, Milan
Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
2000
New Paintings
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1998
The Squarepusher
Chinati Foundation, Marfa
Heroes & Zeros
Texas Gallery, New York
1997
Analong Paintings
Texas Gallery, Houston
1996
Tragic Fading Super Graphic
Art of this Century, Houston
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Instinctive Gestures
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2023
Outside the Lines
Texas Gallery, Houston
2020
Connecting Currents: Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
Summer show
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2019
Input / Output: Painting After Technology
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
Prints and Editions
Luhring Augustine, New York
2018
RendezVous With an Impulse
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983–2004)
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Abstraction Today - Mapping the Invisible World
Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich
New Abstraction
Stellan Holm Gallery, New York
Simon Lee, Hong Kong
2017
This is Now
Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas
Larry Clark, White Trash
Luhring Augustine, Bushwick
James Fuentes Gallery, New York
2016
Progressive Praxis
De La Cruz Collection, Miami
Shape-Shifters
Luhring Augustine, New York
2015
Faux Amis
Simon Lee Gallery, London
Other Planes of There
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
Flat World
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Hello Walls
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Sprayed
Gagosian Gallery, London (catalogue)
New York Painting
Kunstmuseum, Bonn (catalogue)
Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin | Paris
2014
Beware Wet Paint
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, travelled to:
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (catalogue)
Halftone: Through The Grid
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin | Paris (catalogue)
Walk The Line
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
2013
The Show is Over
Gagosian Gallery, London (catalogue)
Fantasy Island
Texas Gallery, Houston
2012
Eagles
Marlborough Gallery, Madrid
Mix/ Remix
Luhring Augustine, New York
Dedicated to YOU but You Weren´t Listening
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2011
Powders, a Phial, and a Paper Book
Marlborough, New York
New Variations
Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas
2010
The Incomplete
Galerie Jean-Luc + Takako Richard, Paris
2009
10th Anniversary Exhibition
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
Secret Life of Objects
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2007
The Incomplete
Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Beneath the Underdog
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Late Liberties
John Connelly Presents, New York
Big Secret Cache
Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles
Elrod/ Flood/ Zilm
Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas
2006
The Name of This Show is Not Gay Art Now
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2005
All in the Family
Texas Gallery, Houston
Restless
Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (catalogue)
2004
Indigestible Correctness
Participant, New York
2003
Jeff Elrod, Torben Giehler, Erik Parker
Texas Gallery, Houston
Nicole Eisenman, Jeff Elrod, Torben Giehler, Tony Matelli
Galeria Marabini, Bologna
Abstract Per Se
Red Dot Gallery, New York
2002
Wall Street Rising
Curated by Norman Dubrow, New York
New Economy Paintings
ACME, Los Angeles
Subject Matters
Kravet / Wehby Gallery, New York
Abstract Redux
Danese Gallery, New York
Leslie Cohan & Brown Gallery, New York
2001
Bitstreams
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Glee Painting Now
The Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach
Before They Became Who They Are
Kravets/ Wehby Gallery, New York
2000
Glee: Painting Now
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (catalogue)
Collectors´ Choice
Exit Art, New York
Ambient Fiction: Jeff Elrod, Monique Prieto, Jeff Zilm
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1999
Fabstraction
Texas Gallery, Houston
University of Nevada, Los Angeles, travelled to:
Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles;
Texas Gallery, Houston
Texas Draws
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Malerei
INIT Kunsthalle, Berlin
1998
Painting Now and Forever Part 1
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, travelled to:
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Abstract Painting, Once Removed
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas (catalogue), travelled to:
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Jeff Elrod, Mark Flood, Brad Tucker
Angstom Gallery, Dallas
1997
Oktoberfest
Texas Gallery, Houston
Disiptoye
Angstom Gallery, Dallas
1996
Tragic Fading Supergraphic
Art of This Century, Houston
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Simon Lee Gallery (Ed.): Jeff Elrod, Hong Kong 2015
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications (Eds.): Jeff Elrod: ESP, Berlin, 2015
Kunstmuseum Bonn (Ed.): New York Painting, Cologne, 2015
Gagosian Gallery (Ed.): Sprayed, London, 2015
Simon Lee Gallery (Ed.): Jeff Elrod, Eindhoven, 2014
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Halftone: Through the Grid, Berlin, 2014
Institute of Contemporary Art London / Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo (Eds.): Beware Wet Paint, London, 2014
Gagosian Gallery (Ed.): The Show is Over, London, 2013
Glassell School of Art / The Museum of Fine Arts (Eds.): Restless, Houston, 2005
Whitney Museum of American Art (Ed.): Bitstreams, New York, 2001
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ed.): Glee: Painting Now, Ridgefield, 2000
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Ed.): Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Kansas City, 1998
Videos
Publications
Jeff Elrod
Exhibition Poster
2021
€ 20.00
Jeff Elrod: Artist Book
H2P I Hetzler Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2019
Edition of 180 plus 20 H.C., signed, numbered and dated by the artist
Copies nos. 1–80 and H.C. 1–20 contain one of four different signed, numbered and dated inkjet prints on fine art cotton paper
Jeff Elrod
Exhibition Poster
Created by the Artist
2016
Out of stock
Jeff Elrod: ESP
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2015
Out of stock
HALFTONE
Darren Almond, Tauba Auerbach, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Jeff Elrod, John Houck, Navid Nuur, Albert Oehlen, Michael Raedecker, Tursic & Mille, Kelley Walker, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris 2014
With a text by Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff
€ 15.00
Selected Press
The Brooklyn Rail November 2020
Frische Magazine Fall/Winter 2014
Muse Magazine September 2014
Interview Magazine January 2014
The New York Times March 2013
artlab January 2013
Art and Seek Online February 2009
Artforum September 2001
Art in America September 2000