Elie Ness
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Elie Ness

France • 1980

Biography

Elie Ness is a French artist born in 1980 in New York. Passionate about drawing since his childhood, it becomes a devouring passion that still accompanies him today. Over the years, Elie Ness broadened his palette to also engage in painting and sculpture. He devoted his life to creating works of art across the world to express his message, he settled in Australia and later in London.


Developed by theme, its exhibitions follow one another offering ever new and surprising universes. Constantly evolving and reinventing itself, his trademark is that of a joyful and deep art, often in bright colors, in which he playfully and ironically shakes up our systems of perception.


In this approach, he does not hesitate to appropriate and divert all the imagery of popular culture, super heroes, even brands, thus achieving an almost systematic decryption of our collective unconscious. Elie Ness draws his inspiration from pop art classics such as Basquiat, Warhol… as well as quite simply from his daily life, his surroundings, and from the street art scene. He likes to work with lettering, revisiting the portraits of personalities or objects that have marked history or his personal history.

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