Artist Information:
Jane Elliott
Oakland, CA
United States
Member Since: Sep 2007
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Artist Statement:
About 'Robots'
If you mix together poetry by
Richard Brautigan, the art of
Dr Seuss, vintage Hoover
vacuum cleaners, amoebae,
diatoms, insects, Russian
space stations and mysterious
sea creatures you get Organic
Robots! Or at least that's
what happened to me - I have
years of stored material and
inspiration spinning together
in the sketches that flow into
the blank book - coming out of
my pens and pencils as these
organic machines of enigmatic
purpose. I don't know if they
are merely glorified household
cleaning assistants or if
their function is as Brautigan
proposed - to leave us free of
our labors to join back with
nature - 'returned to our
mammal brothers and sisters' *
With sketchbook now placed
inside my substantial fifties
model opaque projector I
re-draw these mechanical
beasties on light weight
plywood and cut out their
silhouettes using a modern day
scroll saw. layers of parts,
frameworks, carapaces, tubes,
claws, suction cups, satellite
dishes, detectors, gauges,
antennas, and sensors - all
now glued together, gesseoed,
painted and glazed. With wood,
glue, paint, and a modicum of
woodworking skills the robots
are now ready for action!
Whatever that might be......
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Artist Exhibitions:
Lines, Patterns and Textures -
Expressions Gallery - February
2008
The Crucible Winter Fling
Thing - December 2006
lobot - A Show to Show How a
Show is not Only a Show - July
2006
Annual Juried Student
Exhibition - City College San
Francisco - 2005
Annual Juried Student
Exhibition - City College San
Francisco - 2004
abco artspace - ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
I was recently visited by Obi
Kaufman -
We had a few beers and talked
about Making Robots -
http://obikaufmann.blogspot.com
/2009/06/jane-elliot-article-an
d-more-pics.html...
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Jane Elliott's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Jane Elliott's Portfolio. Browse Elliott's body of work:
About 'Robots'
If you mix together poetry by Richard Brautigan, the art of Dr Seuss, vintage Hoover vacuum cleaners, amoebae, diatoms, insects, Russian space stations and mysterious sea creatures you get Organic Robots! Or at least that's what happened to me - I have years of stored material and inspiration spinning together in the sketches that flow into the blank book - coming out of my pens and pencils as these organic machines of enigmatic purpose. I don't know if they are merely glorified household cleaning assistants or if their function is as Brautigan proposed - to leave us free of... |
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