Elliott Hundley, left, Tiered Sounds, 2017. Paper, oil, fabric, pins, plastic, glass, shells, lotus pods, metal, foam and linen on panel. Private
collection, Santa Barbara, CA. Right: Elliott Hundley, Troy to the Dirt, 2009. Oil on linen stretched on canvas.
All images © Elliott Hundley and courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Courtesy images.
Proscenium: Elliott Hundley to feature the installation By Achilles’ Tomb: Elliott Hundley and Antiquity @ SBMA
SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present an extensive mid-career exhibition of work by Elliott Hundley including an innovative installation rethinking the current display of Greco-Roman antiquities in the Museum’s Ludington Court. Proscenium, a broad survey, sees his work through the lens of theater, props, sets, and backdrops. It brings together 50 artworks dating from 2000 to 2025, including paintings, collages, assemblages, bronzes, drawings, rarely seen early works, and loans from private collections. In By Achilles’ Tomb, he rethinks and mischievously upends the display of Greco-Roman antiquities in SBMA’s Ludington Court. Long fascinated by the plays of Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC), especially Medea (c. 431BC), The Bacchae (c. 405 BC), and Hekabe (c. 424 BC), and ancient Greco-Roman culture and myths, he is an ideal artistic partner to reshape the Museum’s most prominent and public space, which opens onto Santa Barbara’s pedestrianized State Street.