David Elliott

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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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