David Elliott

Quietly working away in his garrage studio, over the last 20 plus years is the dark and grundgy mind of Daivd Elliott
A product of the UT fine art system of the late sixtys in Austin, he chose an introverted studio style not prepelled or inspired by fame or fortune but endless ponders of closed room abstractions and dark beauty of the inner assosiations of the mind's control over the hand,.
This painting above i think has had the longest showing record in the Blue Star, it hangs in a gallery over there tolite (Grona) the place i had a show at, which oddly enough , if a painting was like an animal, his would be a possum, hanging from a tree, late at night hiding away,. I always say your work will dictate a sorta of behavior as to where is displayed, i always akin my taste to the bathroom of a dairy queen,. and David is no exception, his work wil find its wall.
I first meet David

back in San Marcos , in 96, he was friends with kathy who started the San Marcos Fine art Center, and showed works there, i even visted him at his studio in Austin and was a show with him at A.C. Galley, he has along story , i am not qualfieded to talk about it,.
but i do admire his additude and many of times in the ponderings about the sixty generations, in regards to art and money, i have always had these moral/paradoxs to the storys, as to what is an artist life about ?,.
its good to know that one could exist, and i hazard to say "outside" any real sucess as an artist and (i feel certian) make more believeable work, cause the behavior thats creats it, evolves from the inner workings of the mind, not the compusion to complete the content of a show,
. Davids work reads like this endles chain pulled from a dark well becoming more rustic and slimey and he pulls up one link at a time, wondering if there is a bucket tied on the end.
its an admireable life, and the content of his work outside being shreded by complete sucess will most likly be discovered in that dimmly lit garrage he works in, thew the backstock of years worth the work,.
check out his site,
David Elliot site!

Posted by chickengeorge at April 30, 2006 10:14 AM