ELLE “CHAOS THEORY”

KSR Gallery is excited to welcome their first returning artist, ELLE. Beginning her career as a graffiti artist in New York over a decade ago, ELLE often scaled billboards and ascended building facades to create 10-metre-high fire extinguisher paintings. ELLE’s prolific use of the fire extinguisher would later inform her well-known collage style of painting, and these elements can be seen in her work today.

Chaos Theory is the exploration of ELLE's origins, and seeks out moments of beauty and expands on minimal and abstract elements to form a new perspective. Interesting and striking moments of the painting process can often be covered by the planned elements of the work taking priority. This is especially prevalent in client-focused mural work. During her KSR Gallery Residency ELLE strips back her process to reveal these moments and highlights them in an abstract expression, leaving the viewer to experience the intentional chaos in ELLE’s work.