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Listening Arm delves into Eliot Greenwald's richly envisioned terrains, adorned with organic shapes and archetypal symbols. Viewers are guided across verdant worlds, accompanying a lone night car as it navigates spaces which oscillate between familiar and improbable. For his latest show centered around his Night Car series, Greenwald amplifies and refines his visual language yet again, further evolving a narrative that explores elements of foundational and theoretical sciences along with channeling the deep-seated dualities of the psyche.
Greenwald works through serial variations of form and color, probing how simple changes in hue, lighting, and shape alter perception. Each work unfolds with a richness of detail and Greenwald's intentional play with intense color and thick application of impasto with oil stick and paint creates a vibrant, almost hallucinatory effect. The paintings exhibit a luminous quality, giving the impression of light filtering through dense foliage or the glow of a phenomenon which evades a tidy explanation. These elements provide an experience that transcends the visual to become a tactile journey through a collective sensory world.
The exhibition also introduces a significant new work on paper, sharing the exhibition's title, Listening Arm, which offers a bird’s eye view of a car coursing through a timeless, undefined expanse. Acting as a foil to Greenwald’s established usage of color variation and wonky canvas form, this new piece evokes the interior of one's psyche – in this space there is no indication of time or place, only the luminous trail of the headlights and the constellations of the inner world.
The works in this exhibition expand on Greenwald’s Night Car series with an emboldened clarity and depth, revealing a deliberate progression in his exploration of visual perception, where the interplay of light and shadow, color and form, becomes a journey into both the scientific and the personal realms. These works serve as portals to expansive worlds, challenging the viewer to navigate the familiar contours of reality alongside the potential of the unknown.
Eliot Greenwald’s paintings map the ever-evolving terrain of individual experience, tracing the distances between subjective reality and the natural world. In his newest work, the artist's car scenes take place amidst exotic, lush fauna. Neon lights emit from each metal facade, shifting in complexion from dull to bright like a human gaze gaining clarity. The car becomes a stand-in of sorts for the viewer themselves, a non-theological spirit which evokes the interior of the mind. Greenwald constructs a type of repetitive continuity between works, single motifs or images reappearing over and over again. This use of repetition, for Greenwald, mirrors the slow evolution of one’s cognitive understanding of reality. You don’t see one tree, for instance, and suddenly possess a perfect idea of what all trees are. Rather, you see many trees of many shapes and many colors and many sizes, and from this slow accretion of trees, come to develop a personal relationship to trees as a whole. To this end, his imagery is often surreal, perhaps even Dada-esque, in its proportion, shape, and color. He is not interested in realistic representation. The images he puts to his canvases are studies on myth-making, what we do to make sense of our particular location in time and space. They are the products of his own mind, reflections of his particular subjective understanding of what certain objects can, or should, look like.
Eliot Greenwald (b. 1983) is a contemporary American artist who was born and raised in Portland, Maine and now lives and works in Ashfield, MA. Eliot is a self taught artist who has shown throughout the United States as well as globally. Eliot is represented by Harper’s in New York City. Recently, Eliot has had solo exhibitions with Harper’s (NYC), Taymour Grahne Projects (London), and Hesse Flatow (NYC). He was included in Reflections: Human/Nature at Gana Contemporary in Seoul, South Korea and was shown at Art Central HK as part of the art fair’s curatorial selections. Upcoming shows include solos with Best Western/Marvin Gardens and Harper’s in New York. Eliot has been published in Art Maze Magazine, Let’s Panic, and featured on Juxtapoz, It’s Nice That, and Art News.