ELLE

(US)

ELLE - @ellestreetart - dropped out of art school and hit the streets of New York. Due to the ephemeral nature of wheatpaste, she switched to graffiti, which led to a spray paint sponsorship. With unlimited cans at her disposal, she started approaching people to paint their buildings. From there, she started being invited to paint legal murals all world.

While she continues to tour the world painting globally, her visit to STRAAT marked an interesting moment in her career, as she had started gravitating more towards AI, glass blowing and sculpture art. ‘Girl With A Pearl Earring; Contemporary AI Remix’ is actually the first work for which she designed a sketch in collaboration with AI. This came with a few technical hiccups ELLE purposely kept. See for instance the ‘off’ eyelid, the odd flowers, or the ear blending into the hat. She references this very particular moment in time where AI is in a “toddler” stage, making funny/illogical mistakes - which surely won’t last long. ‘Girl With A Pearl Earring; Contemporary AI Remix’ references two moments of Dutch Art History: the Vanitas movement and Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring”. The painting is done entirely of spray paint in ELLE’s typical collage style, and with more diversity, implying that inclusion is a strong point of Dutch society now.