COLLAGES: BRIDGING PRACTICES

I extended investigations of the perceptual peculiarities of layered patterns, in String Drawings, with "Peek-a-Boo en Boîte" (2020). This work entailed digital printing, laser cutting and thermoforming on sheet acrylic. The front layer overlying the frame represents a string grid, but it is so obviously not actually made of string that the back layer, which is also a digital print, appears at first glance to be real. An image of the string grid seen through a transparent polyhedron is situated on top of the back layer, and bridges this work to my other current artistic practice.

"A Pre-Impressionist and a Surrealist Walk into a Paris Bar" (2018) is an art historical jest. Enjoy!

Peek-a-Boo en Boîte

Paint and UV-cured printing laser cut and thermoformed clear, opaque and reflective acrylic sheet, assembled on wood panel and frame, 28" x 18.5" x 6" (includes artist made frame) (2020)

Peek-a-Boo en Boîte (Alternative View)

Paint and UV-cured printing laser cut and thermoformed clear, opaque and reflective acrylic sheet, assembled on wood panel and frame, 28" x 18.5" x 6" (includes artist made frame) (2020)

Blue Net Cube

UV-cured inkjet on collaged laser cut transparent and mirrored acrylic sheets, 27.25” x 17” x 1” (2018)

One Gnarly Chimera

UV-printed laser cut reflective acrylic plate on laser cut translucent acrylic paint on painted jute fabric, with jute and hemp cord and rope. 37" x 27" (2018)

A Pre-Impressionist and a Surrealist Walk into a Bar

Acrylic paint on laser cut and etched acrylic sheet and UV fixed printing on laser cut translucent acrylic plate on painted canvas, 28"x 22"x 2-1/4" (2018)

LAURENCE ELIAS

COLLAGES: BRIDGING PRACTICES

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