Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Ellegood, Scott |
Title |
No Exit |
Date |
2007 |
Medium |
cotton on linen and silk embroidery |
Culture |
American |
School |
Tucson Artist |
Object ID |
2014.14.3 |
Collection |
Contemporary Art (1970-present) |
Object Name |
Picture, Needlework |
Credit line |
Gift of Sheryl and Bob Greenberg |
Didactic Information |
Scott Ellegood is a Tucson artist who uses photographs to create elaborately embroidered portraits. The idea for portraiture came to him while riding the BART, the San Francisco subway, which provided a multitude of people and faces. Appropriating both found and original photographs, Ellegood uses image manipulation software to alter the photographs until they no longer resemble the original. Ellegood's small, closely cropped portraits, created in the buttonhole stitch, allude to the large-scale portraiture of Chuck Close; his headshot/portraits have a photorealistic quality from a distance, but when examined in proximity, they become abstract swatches of color. Symbolically, the abstraction of these portraits relates to the ability to see the "big picture" of a person from a distance, and it emphasizes the individual modules that make up the whole in proximity. (December 2015) |