Elsa Rouy's raw paintings dredge up uneasy feelings. The artist depicts the body distorted, chopped up and remade, sometimes dripping in bright red or pink gore. Her human forms bare their teeth, twist their limbs at unnatural angles, and sometimes tangle themselves passionately around one another.
There is a sheen to their skin which evokes both the facade of digitally created flesh and the. Elsa Rouy, A face when loved, 2023, Bleach and acrylic on canvas, 64 x 54 cm Exhibition view, 2023 courtesy the artists and EIGEN + ART Lab. Pleasure of a silent and charcoal on canvas, Bleach and acrylic on canvas, 170 x 185 cm Exhibition view, 2023 courtesy the artists and EIGEN + ART Lab.
Discover and purchase Elsa Rouy's artworks, available for sale. Browse our selection of paintings, prints, and sculptures by the artist, and find art you love. Over the past four years, Rouy has held three solo exhibitions at GUTS in Hackney Downs and recently staged her 'Ephialtes' exhibition at GNYP in Antwerp which closed in March 2024.
Courtesy of the Elsa Rouy, GNYP Gallery and Guts Gallery From visual figurative pieces to captivating sculpture work, Rouy's creativity seems to encounter no. PROFILE - There is an evolution in how Elsa Rouy approaches her art, and it is evident in her recent paintings and their more pronounced technical elements. Her earlier works ooze abstraction with enough visual cues to pinpoint who the figures are (take her mother and child series where, for example, she explored the concept of bodily fluids and motherhood).
Recently, her paintings take a. GNYP Gallery works with internationally operating high. In her new exhibition at GUTS gallery, artist Elsa Rouy explores the contradictory nature between beauty and brutality.
The London-based artist's constantly evolving work explores the complexities of the human condition through layers of acrylic. Here, we're introducing Elsa Rouy, an accomplished artist hailing from Sittingbourne, Kent, now based in the cultural hub of London. Elsa creates captivating works of art.
Elsa Rouy Disgusting and bad art Standing in front of the art of Elsa Rouy for the first time, sensations of awe, empathy and a prudish fascination washed over me. Rouy's large, life-like yet distorted depictions of human rawness both repulse and tantalise, equally as unsettling as empowering to see our own nature reflected back at us. A recent graduate from Camberwell College of Art, London-based artist Elsa Rouy creates images of intense psychological depth.
Rouy describes her work as "a visual portrayal of abstruse emotions." Through painting, Rouy attempts to get to the heart of her own personal experience as a woman.