Richard C. Elliott | Reflector Madness

Richard C. Elliott (1945-2008) engaged in a lifelong exploration of color and pattern in his quest to know, feel, and express the primal sources of art and the play of light in form. Eventually Dick found drawing too limited in expressing the relationship between light and structure, and he began 20 years of creatively using a decidedly utilitarian medium: safety reflectors. This “reflector art” would not only break the bounds between the conventional and the innovative in art, it would bring him eventually full circle in the last year of his life to drawn works on the computer, through richly colored, geometric graphics of virtually infinite variety. Here we see some of these reflector art pieces in installations and exhibits.

image Richard C. Elliott | Reflector Madness #1 1989
image Richard C. Elliott | Oh Wow 1989
image Richard C. Elliott | White Light #1 2003
image Richard C. Elliott | Reflector Madness #2 1989
image Richard C. Elliott | Map of Heaven 1993
image Richard C. Elliott | Dual Image 2004
image Richard C. Elliott | Marriage of Opposites #1 1992
image Richard C. Elliott | Marriage of Opposites #2 1992
image Richard C. Elliott | White Light #2 2003
image Richard C. Elliott | 120 Color Combinations 2000-3