•  Installation Shots From: Paper
    Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
  •  Installation Shots From: Paper
    Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
  •  Installation Shots From: Paper
    Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
  •  Installation Shots From: Paper
    Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
  •  Installation Shots From: Paper
    Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Saatchi Online
Saatchi Store
Current Exhibition

David Ellis

Other ResourcesArticlesBiography

SELECTED WORKS BY David Ellis

Enrequeta

Enrequeta (detail)

Enrequeta (detail)

Enrequeta (detail)

David Ellis
Enrequeta

2009

Kinetic trash sculpture including speaker box, 3 bags of paper shreds, green bubble wrap, cardboard, 2 white plastic buckets with contents, school desk, notebooks, black box, flowers, 2 plastic cans with contents, 2 metal cans with cover, metal drum

122 x 427 x 122 cm

David Ellis's BIOGRAPHY

David Ellis
1971
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2009
Constant Flow, New Image Art, Los Angeles
Oxblood, Webb's, Aukland

2008
Hopewell, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington
Dozens, Roebling Hall, New York
Country Club, Cincinnati

2006
Dawn's Early Light, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah
Motion Paintings, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, Philadelphia
Conversation, Rice University Gallery, Houston

2005
Orchestrion, Jessica Murray Projects, New York

2004
Boars Head/ Wars Head,Lump Gallery, Raleigh
Beat Box/ A Painting is a Drum, 222 Gallery, Philadelphia

2003
Request Line, Agnes B Homme, New York

2002
Like Motion of Water, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn
David Ellis, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison
Paint on Trucks in a World in Need of Love
Roots Branches and Leaves, Gas/Dyezu Experiment, Tokyo



GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2008
Inner/Outer Space, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
Tansformers, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn
2003-2008, Publico, Cincinnati

2007
Rubicon Sun:David Ellis and Dozen Green, Fifty24 SF Gallery, San Francisco
NADA Art Fair, Miami, (with Roebling Hall)
Zoo Art Fair, London, (with Roebling Hall)
Ensemble, Instituye of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
50,000 Beds, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
Animated Painting, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Brodeo, New Image Art, Los Angeles
BMG Artists' Annual'07',Black Market Gallery, Los Angeles
Burning House (with Swoon and Faile), New Image Art, Los Angeles
Doodle Crush (collaborations with Kiku Yamaguchi),Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
10 Curators (10th Anniversary),Colette, Paris
Music Show II, Publico and Shake it Records, Cincinnati
Graffiti Stories, MIAM (Musée des arts Modestes),Séte
Graffiti Stories, Abbaye d'Auberives, France
50,000 beds, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Conneticut
Elavator Mural Project (with Doze Green) 30 Bond Street, New York

2006
Music Show,Publico, Cincinnati
Good & Thuggy, Lump Gallery, Raleigh
Salvage + Assemble, Space Gallery, Portland
Live Scores, Monkeytown, Brooklyn
Motion Barn, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem
Castia, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Letter to the President, ResFest, International Film Festival

2005
Greater New York 2005, P.S 1/MoMA, Long Island City
GADGET: Mechanics and Motion in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Digital Cotton, Savannah Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design
Urban Edge, SPAZIO P4, Milan


2004
Paint on Trucks in a World in Need of Love, MoMA QNS, New York
Brainstormers Selected Films, AIGA Move Conference, New York
NADA Art Fair, Miami
2004 Studio Artists: 9X, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn
Psych-Opus, and B-Stormers Mural, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Motion Paintings, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem
Ill Communication, Urbis Museum, Manchester
Grotto 2, Jessica Murray Projects, New York
Beautiful Losers, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Compost, Doze Green and David Ellis, Studio Number 1, Los Angeles


2003
Unseen Messages, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles
Hive Mind Sound System, Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh
Smudge Good, CWC Gallery/Projects, Tokyo
NYC Now, Galerie Du Jour, Paris
Bazaar, Cuchifitos, New York
Coast to Coast, Punch Gallery, San Francisco
Letter to the President, Res Fest, international Film Festival
Apostrophe, Mori Museum, Tokyo

2002
Live Paintings with John Ellis Quintet, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Art Nights, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Steetwise One, Apart, London
Grotto, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn
Final Modification 001, Ex'Realm, Tokyo
Painting is Dead... Or Is It?, Lance Fung, New York

2001
One Planet Under a Groove, Bronx Museum, Bronx
No Condition is Permanent, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn
San Francisco, California, Rappers Delight, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
The Art of Breaking, Downtown Arts Festival, New York
Clocktover Show, P.S 1, Clocktower Gallery, New York
Vox, Kent Gallery, New York

2000
Cirk and Watching Paint Dry, Downtown Arts Festival, New York


 

Other artists in OBJECTIFIED: SCULPTURE TODAY

Alice Anderson    Sarah Braman    Bozidar Brazda    David Brooks    Laura Buckley    Peter Coffin    Julia Dault    Ara Dymond    David Ellis    Daphne Fitzpatrick    Elias Hansen    Valerie Hegarty    Jacob Dahl Jürgensen    Alice Könitz    Ian Kiaer    Scott King    Terence Koh    Molly Larkey    Christina Mackie    Justin Matherly    Jorge Mayet    Kate MccGwire    Oscar Murillo    William J. O'Brien    Benedetto Pietromarchi    Sean Raspet    Florian Roithmayr    Dallas Seitz    Macrae Semans    Allison Smith    Mateo Tannatt    Jade Townsend    Nobuko Tsuchiya    Andra Ursuta    Marianne Vitale    Douglas White    Bedwyr Williams     Yeesookyung    Andy Yoder