JEFF ELROD


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

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, North Carolina

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, San Juan

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

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

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, Texas


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

Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2019
Trade edition of 500 copies

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

€ 35.00

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

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Frische Magazine Fall/Winter 2014

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Muse Magazine September 2014

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Interview Magazine January 2014

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The New York Times March 2013

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artlab January 2013

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Art and Seek Online February 2009

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Artforum September 2001

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Art in America September 2000

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