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September Issue 2004
Lump gallery/projects in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by David Ellis
Lump gallery/projects in Raleigh, NC, kicks off it's ninth year of presenting the most thought-provoking and challenging work around with, Boar's Head/War's Head, a new installation by David Ellis. The exhibition will run from Sept. 3 - 26, 2004.
Boar's Head/War's Head is the first solo exhibition by Ellis in his native state. His site specific installation will feature a drum player machine (based on the mechanics of a player piano), motion paintings, murals, drawings, gourd speakers, a hybrid gramophone turntable, and letterpress prints. Ellis will also be painting murals around the city of Raleigh.
Ellis is an internationally acclaimed artist who has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He received his BFA from Cooper Union, New York and works in a variety of media such as film/video, painting, sculpture and music. In addition to creating his own singular work, Ellis is also founder of the talented collaborative "Barnstormers".
Ellis is currently an artist in resident at Dumbo's Smack Mellon in New York. His work has been reviewed in Art Asia Pacific, Art Forum, Flash Art, New York Times, The Fader, Mass Appeal, Tokion Magazine, and Creative Review, among others.
His upcoming 2004 schedule includes exhibitions at SECCA, in Winston-Salem, NC, Urbis Museum, Manchester and The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii. Ellis's Paint on Trucks installation can currently be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Ellis offers the following statement, "I am an artist from a family of musicians. My uncle plays and restores pianos and my brother travels the world playing tenor saxophone. As a kid I had no patience with piano lessons and learning to read music but absorbed everything I heard on the 'Super Mix', a Saturday night radio program that was broadcast from the Fort Bragg military base near where I grew up. It was just far enough away that reception required one hand on the pause button and the other on an elaborate assembly of coat hangers, duct tape and tin foil jammed into the hole that was once an antenna on my boom box. I recorded the show every week with the volume low so not to disturb my mother's ultra sonic night hearing which would result in radio confiscation."
Ellis goes on to say, "Each week a new style of early New York hip hop found its way into the mind of a 12 year old boy living in the attic of a log cabin in rural North Carolina. By the time Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 dropped 'The Message', I was writing my own rhymes and banging out beats on the desks at school. Those beats have been in the back of my mind all my life."
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/821-9999, e-mail at (lumps1@bellsouth.net) or at (www.lumpgallery.com).
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