Eliot Greenwald

Lou's painting, 2022213.36 x 355.6 x 5.08cmPrice on Request

Details

MaterialGalleryLocation

oil stick and acrylic on canvasHarper'sNew York City

Description

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This vibrant painting showcases a captivating underwater scene. The color palette is rich and bold, featuring a striking combination of blues, pinks, yellows, and greens. The composition is dynamic, with a central, eye-catching coral-like structure surrounded by an array of abstract, organic shapes and patterns. The artist employs a highly detailed, almost textural approach, evident in the intricate renderings of the various marine elements. This work appears to be a whimsical and imaginative interpretation of the natural world, capturing the beauty and complexity of the underwater realm. ...

Artist

Eliot Greenwald

1983 , American

Eliot Greenwald’s work encompasses painting, sculpture, and assemblage, and draws inspiration from an eclectic range of sources, including natural phenomena, pseudoscience, prehistoric narratives, theoretical physics, and popular media. By combining acrylic paint and oil stick, Greenwald creates vivid, tactile compositions that aim to evoke synesthetic experiences by saturating his paintings with intense colors and impasto surfaces. His freestanding sculptures incorporate found objects and studio debris, either painted in bright colors or left in their natural state, which blurs the lines between artifice and nature. Although Greenwald's work explores both ancient and sci-fi futurist registers, his playful approach and formal strategies defy easy classification. He blends modern phenomena with prehistoric motifs in a way that recalls analog film sets or the aesthetics of shows like Pee-Wee's Playhouse. In this way, Greenwald's work exists in a postmodern dimension that collapses historical styles into a continuum beyond strict chronology, inviting viewers to become passengers on a surreal journey. ...