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Minnesota Street Project
October 1 - October 29, 2016Info
1275 Minnesota Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Google Map »Reception
October 1, 2016 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Eli Ridgway is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Amy Ellingson at the Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco. Amy Ellingson uses repetition and variation as tools to achieve a pure, autonomous abstraction. All of her imagery, whether geometrically intact or abstracted and chaotic, is comprised of a vocabulary of very simple forms that are digitally manipulated. She replicates these basic elements into an increasingly complex field that is then rendered in discreet layers of oil and encaustic paint. Using ephemeral, computer-generated abstract forms exclusively as my source material, Ellingson creates paintings that physically assert themselves through the heft and permanence of historical painting media. The translation from the digital to the material—a manifestation of elusive data into undeniable physical form and dimension—is paramount.