Jeff Elrod, “This Brutal World”

For this two-space show, Elrod combines acrylic, silk screen and digital printing to create abstractions poised between the art-historical conventions of pictorial space and the limitless dimensions of the virtual world. Color fields with an airbrushed feel and nervous scrawls created in negative by painting over tape give his canvases (which are sometimes shaped) the look of futuristic, deconstructed graffiti.