R. Clark Ellis Art

Three vertical links make up this piece that transmits firmness and solidity. The chain, always a symbol of unity, security and permanence, can also have a playful sense reflected in...

Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous parts that, taken together, violate our mental patterns and expectations. Charged with contradictions, metaphor, sexual undertones, and unsettling associations, Lane’s unlikely combinations use absurdity as a way of pointing to western society’s normalized habits and conventions, often with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. For the exhibition Try Me, Lane installs a basketball court in the gallery. The two basketball hoops on opposing walls are embellished with silver-coated frames and lustrous mirrors, which serve as decorative backboards. In place of nets, women’s black lace underwear delicately hang from hoops. A decorative rug stenciled with court lines performs as the court floor. It is a mise-en-scène set in motion by viewer’s reconciliation of the individual parts to the whole, and to their original function. Panties regard themselves in the mirror or perhaps measure up their opponent, which, not without irony, is the mirror image of itself. Themes of gender and sexuality are performed and imagined in the upward voyeuristic gaze of the viewer and the expected swoosh of the ball into the net. This is further elaborated by phallic impressions formed by court lines and their likeness to a work of modernist abstraction—a movement wrought by notions of masculinity. The decorative rug’s connection to femininity and domesticity juxtaposes the rigid geometry. Lane further explores the historical gendering of technology, industry, and war in her series of wallpaper drawings, which depict war submarines on cloud patterned wallpaper. The innocence of the submarine in popular culture and its reality as a phallic war object...

“Carte” is the French word for map. This piece, light in appearance as a large sheet of paper, emulates an ancient map that is unfolded for the first time in a long time. The depth t...

Medium: Wood, steel, pigment As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visual la...

This piece plays with our perception, as well as challenges our definition of the chaotic and the perfect. When viewed from the front, the perceived silhouette is that of a perfect c...

Jesús Curiá Perez Conectados VI bronze 29h x 9w x 5.50d in 73.66h x 22.86w x 13.97d cm ed. 1 of 8 JCP051 Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aesthetic pleasur...

A life size, rusted steel sculpture, edition 3/5. This sculpture is wall-mounted and is hung on a wall as a painting would be hung. It stands about 20mm away from the wall, creating...

Jake Michael Singer works across different mediums, including sculpture, photography, drawing and painting. His art focuses primarily on materiality, myth, and catharsis. Singer ca...

Love Box Contemporary Pink Sculptural Box With Crystals. Steel and automotive paint with rock crystals. Randi Grantham was born and raised in Las Vegas...

A medium sized, powder coated mild steel sculpture on a steel footing. Open Edition. Available in different colours or finishes on request.

Medium: Wood, steel, pigment (Wall hung) As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as ...

A life size, rusted mild steel sculpture on a steel footing. Edition of 7. Available in different colours or finishes on request.