Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce an exhibition of eight new paintings by Jeff Elrod. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and his first New York show since 2003.
Jeff Elrod is known for abstract paintings derived from his “frictionless drawings”--computer-based mark-making made with a gliding mouse. These works merge the continuous scrawls of the artist’s hand with a studied vocabulary of sharp lines, notational figures, and digitally generated forms. Elrod’s drawing-based paintings occupy a hybrid space, combining a fluctuating digital point of view with the ambience of classic formal strategies from automatic writing to hard-edge geometry.
In earlier work, Elrod often painted into monochrome fields. For this exhibition, he expands his visual language by introducing grids, modulated color, and passages of raw canvas, widening the tension between digital precision and painterly immediacy.
About the Artist
Jeff Elrod has had solo exhibitions at Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; Leo Koenig, New York; Paolo Curti & Co., Milan; Schipper & Krome, Berlin; and the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX. He has been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; and the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. His work is in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Born in 1966 in Irving, Texas, he lives and works in New York.
