Overwinter

Overwinter depicts a sci-fi landscape filled with mysterious objects. These include floating eyeballs and planets, glass cups, plastic bananas, car keys, and stick shelters. It is a dreamscape filled with cutouts of tiny human figures. These are staged photographs of the artist’s friends and family. The setting is a world in which the sky and earth seem upside down. The surface is covered with hundreds of straight pins, each with a dab of paint on the head of the pin.

Fortunately, the form itself is very flexible, so I can put anything on and take anything off during the process.

Elliott Hundley

Elliott Hundley is a contemporary American abstract painter and installation artist. He describes his mixed media artworks as both collages and paintings. Hundley’s multimedia artworks mix abstract and representational elements, inviting the viewer to create their own stories and meanings. Abstract art does not attempt to represent anything from reality. Representational art depicts something from reality.

Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It’s resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It’s familiar. It reflects our reality.

Elliott Hundley

Hundley’s works are often inspired by his interest in theater, books, and movies. Overwinter is loosely based on Antonin Artaud’s play, There Is No More Firmament. The play was written in the 1930s and set in the imagined year 2000. It is about society’s frantic response to a cataclysmic event that is getting ready to happen.

I’m not inspired by controlling things. I’m inspired by our ability to make sense of what is not within our control or our understanding.

Elliott Hundley

Hundley was born in 1975 in Greensboro, North Carolina. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.