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26 Nov. 2005

STEPHEN ELLWOOD - THIS IS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE LIKE THIS

Artist
Stephen Ellwood
Time
2:00pm - 5:0

2005, Art Metropole, Toronto: 12.4 cm x 17.8 cm, 112 pages with double gatefold cover, offset printed with black ink and including ten tri-tone images, soft-cover smythe-sewn bound with red thread. Pale blue dust-jacket. Edition of 500. Deluxe edition comprised of 50 casebound, cloth-covered copies, with slipcase, numbered and initialed.

The book contains 58 text works, each a language-based drawing of a specific moment, object, action, or state, and tour through the bed, the body, the garden, and the street. The drawings were originally shown in Spring 2003 at CANADA, NYC.

The book also includes ten reproduced landscape photographs taken by Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) in New York State and England between 1905 and 1915.

Selected works include:

A FIGURE IN PROFILE RECLINING
A PIEBALD FUR-COVERED MAMMAL
A FACE BURIED, BEHIND
A SLOWLY DISSOLVED WORLD
A TROPHY HEAD
(A SPECTRE)
GREY LIGHT
SHIRTLESS

Born in 1973, Stephen Ellwood lives and works in New York.

Ellwood’s work uses language as a means for creating narratives and indexes in various formats, including video, books, posters, cards, wall works, and temporary installations. Typeset or handwritten on the wall, the words double as drawings, using language as a stand-in, and freestanding narratives, gleaned from hermetic and social experiences.

Selected wall works and a new edition of prints are temporarily on view. A special edition poster produced by Ellwood to announce the launch is also available.


Born in 1973, Stephen Ellwood lives and works in New York.

Ellwood’s work uses language as a means for creating narratives and indexes in various formats, including video, books, posters, cards, wall works, and temporary installations. Typeset or handwritten on the wall, the words double as drawings, using language as a stand-in, and freestanding narratives, gleaned from hermetic and social experiences.