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Elliott Green
Elliott Green is an artist based out of upstate New York and is most well known for his abstract landscape paintings. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1993 and the Rome Prize in 2011. His work has been featured in magazines such as Hyperallergic and Artforum.

Biography
Elliott Green was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960 and studied literature and art history at the University of Michigan from 1978 to 1981. He moved to New York in 1981 and became represented by the gallery Hirschl & Adler Modern, where he had his first solo shows in 1989 and 1991. In 2005 he moved to Athens, New York, where he currently works and lives. Green primarily exhibits his work in galleries in New York, but has exhibited all over the U.S., and participated in large art fairs such as Art Miami in 2019 and Art Market San Francisco in 2018 and 2019. His work is also in the permanent collection of the University of Colorado Fine Arts Galleries.

Early Work
Elliott Green’s early work consist of drawings, prints, and paintings that are in a surreal caricature-like style, often depicting crowds of people in a humorous or subversive manner. Green has stated that he feels his early work was very influenced by his environment and that while he was working in his Tribeca studio his drawings echoed the dense population around him.

Landscape Paintings
Elliott Green began painting landscape paintings after being inspired by the vast panoramic landscapes in Italy while living there for the year of 2012 for the Rome Prize Fellowship. Critics have acclaimed Green’s landscape paintings due to their essentially abstract nature, where forms of  mountains, clouds, water, and land are present yet never fully legible. Green’s landscapes are often described as surreal, sci-fi, otherworldly, and that they have a digital quality. Green’s work has been compared to both that of the Surrealists and the tradition of Chinese landscape painting.

Studio Practice
Green uses a wet mixture of graphite powder and oil to sketch his landscapes onto the canvas with a pointed brush and his fingers. He applies thin, skimming coats of gradient color with big sweeping gestures and uses sponges, brushes he has joined together into customized bundles, scrapers, palette knives, and windshield wipers to form the terrain of his landscapes.

Awards and Fellowships
2017      BAU Institute, Cassis, France

2016      Yaddo Residency

2011-12 Rome Prize