Excerpts of the interview below, read the full interview here.
Doorways are good. I like alcove spaces.
GB: A frame?
ET: A frame and a little privacy for doing something, and
maybe you don’t notice the piece right away. I don’t
know how other people choose their spaces. I certainly
don’t go hunt for them in relation to a piece. Once I get
a piece, I ride around and it’s usually a gut feeling,
this piece just feels right in this area.
Elbow Toe in DUMBO. Brooklyn, NYC.
Her Beautiful Hands - Red Hook, Brooklyn
I find a lot of theater directors inspiring. And dancers like Pina Bausch (images), her gestures, she takes a whole moment and compresses it into this one space.
I like to draw a lot more than I like to carve the wood. But when it’s all carved out and you have the charcoal against the wood it’s so beautiful. The charcoal has so much more
variation, the ink makes it flat, your line quality is the only thing. I like the charcoal better now. I like to constantly be playing with the image and pushing it around.
GB: Name some artists whose work excites you.
ET: A lot of them are older…dead… Chaim Soutine, he’s
a Jewish Lithuanian artist, De Kooning and Bacon looked at
him, he for some reason decided that you could take a
figure and twist it and turn it.
Comments (14)
Exceleent stuff Mike
Great art - great interview
Wonderful. Excellent interview, I learned a lot.
that beard st. wall in redhook was done mostly by Peripheral Media projects. i hand painted a few things on it and helped put it up the night before the First Warm Night parade in the spring of 2005. only took us 30-45 mins to nail it all up there.
yeah. sweet interview. his work interacts very well with the wall. his eye is maturing nicely.
“his eye is maturing nicely”? kind of like how your pomposity interacts very well with your tone deafness. sweet.
Thanks GammaBlog! Good stuff.
just fantastic! thank you, mike!
Dig the photos, and much enjoyed reading Elbow Toe’s words. Cool stuff. Thanks, G.
hey…great interview with elbowToe… i see you have some great comments too… very interesting work you’re doing… it’s really opened my eyes/mind and informed.
and the photos on the main page of the black out are amazing…
a great site.
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mail me if something new is there.
thanks.
How can I get in contact with Elbow Toe? I’m working on my mfa thesis and love his work, i’d like to include it.
thanks.
I wish someone could make at least something similar in my town. Our buildings will look so much better.
share the source of the name elbow-toe. i wrote it on 2nd and 9th in manhattan 6yrs ago. point being stop the lie and be honest. you are just repeating what has already been done and done!!! c
I love elbow toe. I included him in my top ten street artists list here:
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