David Elliott
PARADE
Opening: Saturday October 12, 2013 - 4pm - 6pm
2013
Oil and acrylic on canvas
173 x 254 cm / 68 x 100 in
2012
173 x 145 cm / 68 x 57 in
2011
Oil and acrylic on canvas
152 x 137 cm / 60 x 54 in
2012
Oil and acrylic on canvas
113 x 86 cm / 44 x 34 in
2011-2012
Oil and acrylic on canvas
152 x 137 cm / 60 x 54 in
2012
Oil and acrylic on canvas
102 x 91 cm / 40 x 36 in
2013
173 x 145 cm / 68 x 57 in
2009
Oil and acrylic on canvas
127 x 122 cm / 50 x 48 in
2012-2013
Oil and acrylic on canvas
173 x 203 cm / 68 x 80 in
2013
Oil and acrylic on canvas
91 x 71 cm / 36 x 28 in
2013
Oil and acrylic on canvas
173 x 145 cm / 68 x 57 in
2012
Oil and acrylic on canvas
152 x 137 cm / 60 x 54 in
2013
Oil and acrylic on canvas
173 x 145 cm / 68 x 57 in
Buddhas, bankers, fortune tellers, a chorus of skulls & a young revolutionary. Cats, toads, flies & lots of birds. Typewriters, clocks, hanging light bulbs, moneybags, false teeth, skyscrapers & volcanoes. Carré rouge, carré blanc, the fleur-de-lys, the rainbow coalition flag. David Elliott’s latest conspiracies of cut-out characters & objects mix the phantasmagorical with the political like a madcap 3-Penny Opera.
For thirty years, Elliott has used collage as a point of departure for his brightly colored paintings. Recently, they have become more sculptural with the artist using theatre-like maquettes as models.
The classical studio bust—sometimes life-like, more often in the form of a mannequin or a phrenology head—dominates this current show, recalling the still life paintings of Picasso & Beckmann, the hard wooden figures of De Chirico & the disembodied noggins of Philip Guston.
The show is dedicated to Philip Guston in honour of the centenary of his birth, right here in Montreal.
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