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March 27, 2008
David Ellis - Flyway at Theory Clothing Store
Theory Icon Project Commission
David Ellis: Flyway
New York, New York. The Theory Icon Project commissions artist David Ellis for a week long painting performance, March 27 through April 3. Ellis will paint every day from 11am until 7pm in the Theory store at 38 Gansevoort Street, New York City. Ellis has built an airplane hangar inspired structure for the store in which he will paint. The entire process will be captured in stop frame animation that Ellis calls Motion Painting.
A digital camera installed overhead inside the structure is programmed to take bird’s-eye-view images of the artist at work on a large canvas laid out on the floor below. The digital stills are then compiled as video sequences, and scored by a composer who is on site for the entire week of the performance. The resulting compilation, entitled Baker’s, is a fast-forward explosion of the evolving imagery in time-lapse. The time-based sequence becomes as much the work of art as the painted canvas. The final work is installed on the wall as a diptych image, painted canvas and motion painting in conversation with each another. The result is an exploration of the relationship between “art” and process.
David Ellis: Flyway includes the in-store painting performance from March 27 through April 3 and the world premiere of Baker’s, the time-lapse video presented with a live score by Roberto Carlos Lange on April 8. To celebrate the Baker’s premiere, Ellis plans a special performance of Hell's Angel vs. DJ RoyOwl a percussive battle between Ellis's newest kinetic drum sculpture and DJ JTram assuming the alter ego of RoyOwl.
David Ellis has been included in a variety of prestigious group exhibitions both in the United States, and abroad. His motion painting videos have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The in-store painting performance takes place March 27-April 3 from 11am to 7pm. The Painting and the motion painting video will be exhibited April 9 through June 2, 2008 in the Theory Gansevoort store. Both the performance and installation are free and open to the public. The April 8th evening event, including the world premiere of Baker’s and the percussive cockfight, is invitation only.
Contact: Melissa G. Weiss
melissaw@theory.com
Tel. 212.300.0945