PULLMAN The WSU Museum of Art will present Richard C. Elliott: “Central Core” starting Aug. 21 at Market Square, located on the corner of Grand and Main in Pullman.
Elliott is known throughout the Northwest for his large-scale installations created from thousands of industrial reflectors. His artistic style utilizes color, light and radiant geometric patterns. Elliot’s medium, industrial grade reflectors, allows him to paint with light. Reflectors are made from the highest quality light translucent acrylic with a diamond pattern in the back that captures light and spins it back out toward its source. He combines this light active medium with two-dimensional geometric designs similar to patterns found from the Arctic Circle and Amazon jungle.
“Central Core” is made of fifty-one 32”x32” reflective panels, with each panel consisting of 1,000 bicycle reflectors. The panels are based on all variations of color combinations of a single pattern, which radiates three points from the center.“If you don’t drive by this installation, especially at night, you are really missing something,” said Anna-Maria Shannon, associate director, Museum of Art/WSU.
In 2007, Elliott received the Governor’s Arts Award for his outstanding service to the cultural life of Washington State and his piece Sound of Light, in Seattle, was named one of the best public art projects in the United States for 2007.
The Museum of Art would like to thank Mike Yates for donating the space for the exhibit.
