Jeff Elrod
Blue Figment, 2016
UV ink on Fisher canvas
80h x 60w x 1 1/4d in
© Jeff Elrod Photo by Argenis Apolinario Courtesy the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Vito Schnabel Gallery
In 2004, I visited Jeff Elrod’s (b. 1966) studio prior to his participation in a group show curated by Rita Ackermann and Lizzi Bougatsos called “Indigestible Correctness,” which was staged in a short-term space I operated in New York’s West Village. Jeff pointed out that he met Christopher Wool at the time, who was also in the exhibit and who went on to become an extraordinarily close friend and supporter of the artist. They both have studios in Marfa, Texas.