“This California-based artist’s first New York solo show pres- ents paintings that are optically enthralling and sensuously tactile.”
—Ken Johnson
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Catalogue Essay
“[Ellingson’s] patterned fields [are]...emotionally insinuating and hedonistically intimidating... It is computer technology that has made this possible. It allows Ellingson to revitalize what has become stale, decadent, historical.”
—Donald Kuspit
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“[Ellingson’s] vibrant works serve as markers for the contemporary visual experience, composed of combinations, traces adn echos of the stimuli that course before our eyes on a daily basis.”
—René de Guzman, Bay Area Now 3
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Catalogue Essay
“Ellingson's systems hit the eye instantaneously, suggesting sections of vast networks, such as the Web.”
—Mary MacNaughton, Matter & Matrix
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“Ellingson painstakingly works in encaustic to build layer upon layer of pulsating line work, resulting in exhilarating optical plays upon vision and perception, testing our capacity to absorb visual information.”
—Diana Daniels, Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction
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