Elissa Cox: with a twitch and a grimace

November 6 – December 19, 2009

Elissa Cox: with a twitch and a grimace
A 2009 W2S Exhibition

EUCLID AVENUE GALLERY

Elissa Cox is an Assistant Professor at Upper Iowa University, Fayette, IA. She completed a residency at Sculpture Space (Utica, NY) in summer 2008. Her work has most recently been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Penn State University (State College, PA- 2009), the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art (New Harmony, IN - 2008), the Lexington Art League (Lexington, KY - 2008) and the Slocomb Galleries of East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, TN - 2007), and will be seen in 2009 at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS). Her work has been in group exhibitions at the Tacoma Contemporary (Tacoma, WA - 2008), the Roy G Biv Gallery (Columbus, OH - 2006), and other museums and galleries across the country. She received her MFA from Ohio University (2007) and was awarded her BFA and BA in Art History from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN - 2003).

Elissa Cox creates installations that turn the world inside out to exemplify human pain. Hers are exuberant, seemingly chaotically constructed, often visually and emotionally overwhelming environments made largely with cloth, wax, plaster, and latex. Her forms, both actual and fantastical, are inspired by the configurations of the human body’s interior structure and organs, on a micro and macro scale, and the natural landscape. The work presents transitions from pain to beauty and approaches an embodiment of exquisite pain. The installation becomes a literal landscape of the pain, rawness, and splendor found hidden within the body and the psyche.

The artist thanks Lincoln Electric Co. Cleveland, OH, for their generous donation of the welder casings in this installation.


With a Twitch and a Grimace
Elissa Cox
with a twitch and a grimace, 2009 (detail)
Latex, foam, fiber, hair, paint, silicone, plastic tubing, electric tubing, welder casings, latex balloons, found materials
Image courtesy of the artist.

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