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This painting, "Columbus Day Marchers, 2001" was produced from images that I took in October of 2001, of the first Columbus day parade that was held after the events of 911. The parade featured the usual military component of young, uniformed men and women in, or preparing for service to their country. This particular image, only manipulated in the colors, and design factors, shows the determination and wariness configured at the time by the event. It was also clear that many young people might soon give their lives for their country.
My closest friend at the time, Bill Biggart, a journalistic photographer, was killed when the second Twin TradeTower collapsed and crushed him along with many firemen.
Biff Elrod
2016
New York City
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EDUCATION
1968 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee BFA
1970 University of Hawaii, Manoa Campus, Honolulu, HI MFA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Donna Leatherman LLC New York, New York
2006 Donna Leatherman LLC New York, New York
1988 Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico, installation
1987 Schreiber/Cutler, Inc. New York, New York
1985 Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, New York
1982 Gallery Yves Arman, New York, New York
1980 Gallery Yves Arman, New York, New York
1979 Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 "Marty Cool's Biennial" Heliopolus Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2011 "Artists' Eyes on the Prize: Selections from the National Civil Rights Museum" Hyde Gallery at the Nesin Graduate School - Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
2003 "Saints and Gods" group show of paintings, Galerie 311, New Orleans, LA
2000 "Self-Reflections-a glance in the Mirror" group show of paintings in the Pfizer Corporation's exhibition space, east 42nd Street, NYC, curator: Dorothy Solomon
1998 “Invitational” Memphis Arts Festival-Brooks Museum, Memphis,TN
1997 “Permanent Collection” Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico “Teamwork” Krasdale Foods Corp. Gallery, White Plains, N.Y.
1990 “Creative Process” traveling exhibition-N.Y. area, Bronx Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center Public Galleries
1989-88 “Art & the Law” sponsored by West Publishing Co. International traveling exhibition (catalog)
1984-85 “Innocence and Experience” Greenville County Museum, Greenville, South Carolina, (catalog). Also traveled to First Street Gallery, N.Y.C.
1984 “The New Portrait” Institute for Art And Urban Resources (P.S.1), Long Island City, N.Y., (curated by: Jeffrey Deitch, catalog)
1982 “Stylistic Plurality” Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. (catalog)
1980 “On Paper” Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia (catalog) “New York Realists- 1980” Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, N.Y. (catalog)
1979 “Works on Paper” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, N.Y.,N.Y.
PUBLIC ART
1999 1986 mural titled “Ascent-Descent” restored, with all lower panels replaced , painted in oil on cement board, and reinstalled. 13 panel permanent mural), collection of PATH, The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, located:
entrance to the Christopher Street PATH station, Christopher Street, west of Hudson, N.Y.C. Originally sponsored by the Public Art Fund.
1991 “Co-operative Labor A & B” two panels (8.5 feet X 12 feet - 11.5 feet X 6.5 feet) commission, PATH, Port Authority of N.Y. & N.J. “Sam Houston’s School” 72 inches Sq., oil on canvas, Tennessee Heritage Collection, First Tennessee
Collection, First Tennessee Bank of Memphis, Memphis, TN
1989 “Miami Mix” commission, (8 feet X 12 feet) collection of City of Miami- located: Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Florida
Paintings appearing in feature film and television productions:
Dressed to Kill, written and directed by Brian De Palma ( starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickenson and Nancy Allen)
White Lies, written and directed by Ken Seldon (starring Julie Warner, Rosanna Arquette)
Miami Vice, television series, one episode (starring Don Johnson)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Myles, Eileen, Art in America, review, Vol. 76, no. 3., March, 1988 pp. 156-7. reproduction.
“Fourteen Reasons Why New York is New”, The New York Times, October 3, 1986. , reproduction.
The New York Times, September 3, 1986 , reproduction.
Westfall, Stephen, Arts Magazine, Vol. 60. no. 3., November , 1985, p.130.
Niers, Gert, Aufbau , Germany June, 1985, reproduction.
Klein, Ellen Lee, Arts Magazine, review: “Rambunctious” show, March,1984
Hollfelder, Jack, Art Papers, Interview, Vol. 6., no. 2., March-April 1982 , pp.4-6.
Westfall, Stephen, Arts Magazine, Vol. 56., no.10., June 1982, p.20.
Schjeldahl, Peter, The New York Times, Art (Westchester Section) April 13, 1980
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico
Butler Institure of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico
The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN commission
The Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Coconut Grove Exhibition Hall, Miami, Florida commission
Tennessee State Foundation for the Arts, Nashville, TN
Oppenheimer and Company, New York, New York
University of Hawaii, Public Collection, Honolulu, HI
Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., Miami, FL commission
Tennessee Heritage Collection, First Tennessee Bank, Memphis, TN commission
Chemical Bank, New York, New York commission
Metro Media Corporation, Los Angeles, California
PATH, The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey commission
Brown University, Paul B. Pizzatola Building, Providence, R.I. commission
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Rhodes College of Art, Memphis, TN