Roberta Smith over at the New York Times reviews Inner and Outer Space artist David Ellis's concurrent show, Dozens, at Roebling Hall in today's paper:
The New York Times | July 18, 2008
by Roberta Smith
The work in David Ellis’s latest show alternates between routine and ingenious, and ingenious invariably involves sound and motion. This is not surprising: Mr. Ellis excels at percussion, animation and the form of action painting known as Graffiti Art; he also has a tendency to build idiosyncratic musical instruments. (For this show he collaborated with the musician Roberto Lang.) For example, “Heap” is a very large pile of trash from Brooklyn and Manhattan that regularly bursts into gadget-driven drumming. Paint cans, spackle buckets, aluminum beams and tinfoil are among the noise-makers and they’re all miked. “Ok Superman” is a reinterpretation of a player piano, which plays Laurie Anderson’s classic performance piece “O Superman” — albeit quite faintly — using small fans directed at a series of empty wine bottles; its moving parts also include a computer that prints out the song’s lyrics in the shape of the airborne action hero’s S-logo. ( CONTINUE READING )
David spent 5 weeks here at the Mattress Factory this past February making the motion painting OKAY. A video documenting his process is below:
INNER AND OUTER SPACE continues through January 11, 2009
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