echo painting [b/w], 2012. uv ink on canvas

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Wavelenght (b/w), 2013
UV ink on canvas, 84 x 144 inches (213.36 x 365.76 cm)

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Wavelenght (red), 2013
UV ink on canvas, 84 x 144 inches (213.36 x 365.76 cm)

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Echo Painting (green), 2013
UV ink on canvas, 119 x 84 inches (302.3 x 213.4 cm)

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Nobody Sees Like Us, 2013
installation view at MoMA PS1

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West Gray, 2013
UV ink on fisher canvas, 88 1/4 x 88 1/4 in. (224.2 x 224.2 cm)

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installation view at Simon Lee Gallery, London, 2013

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ESP, 2012
acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 72 x 59 inches (182.9 x 149.9 cm)

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Orange Julius, 2013
acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 72 1/4 x 62 1/4 in. (183.5 x 158.1 cm)

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Figment, 2012
acrylic and ink on canvas, 78 x 64 inches

all images courtesy of the artist

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JEFF ELROD is an American artist who creates large-scale abstract paintings which all come from images first made on a computer screen. Using programs such as Illustrator or Photoshop he draws and reworks imagery that he then renders on canvas by hand, using a projector and tape. He paints over the taped out lines using any one of a variety of techniques, including spraying and digital printing; once he arrives at a point that satisfies him, he removes the tape to reveal his line drawing. In a recent evolution in his work ELROD uses ink jet printing on canvas, with little or no manual intervention.

I use automatic drawing as a device to make images with. But I’m a formalist painter. It’s always about the form, the composition. My task is to get the painting off the screen and onto the canvas. – JEFF ELROD in conversation with CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN