Ephemera(lity) was a duo-exhibition that brought together works by Tad Greenwald and myself at Ro2 Art in Dallas, Tx
From The Press Release:
Tad Greenwald and Eli Ruhala capture time through diametrically opposed visual processes, yet complement each other in terms of space. For Ruhala’s works, the substrate is formed through joint compound and pigment, with the images emerging from a reductive technique of carving into the surface. Greenwald’s water media pieces are additive, capturing landscapes marked by decaying vehicles.
A dialogue emerges between these two bodies of works, as if the figures in the interior scenes depicted by Ruhala may be the same ones that once drove the corroding “land yachts” parked in the realistically rendered West Texas panoramas. What both processes have in common is the impossibility of erasure, much like how actions or words cannot be unsaid, a mark cannot be unmade. This analog to human experience in the development of images upon these substrates gives voice to memory in all its contexts, brief, calming, jarring, life defining
A dialogue emerges between these two bodies of works, as if the figures in the interior scenes depicted by Ruhala may be the same ones that once drove the corroding “land yachts” parked in the realistically rendered West Texas panoramas. What both processes have in common is the impossibility of erasure, much like how actions or words cannot be unsaid, a mark cannot be unmade. This analog to human experience in the development of images upon these substrates gives voice to memory in all its contexts, brief, calming, jarring, life defining
