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Atomic Elroy

Video Installation Performance

About the artist:

Tom McElroy aka Atomic Elroy, b. Lowell, Mass. 1954, is a time based media artist, specializing in video, installation, and performance. His work has appeared in numerous museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, including: Creativetime, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Plus Gallery, Denver, CO; Optica Festival, Gijon, Spain; The Lab @ Belmar, Lakewood, CO; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Sink Gallery, Denver, CO; Umbrella Art Group, Cardiff, Wales; Gallery of Contemporary Art (GOCA121) Univ. of CO. COS; Sangre De Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO; Art In Your Face, Malmoe, Sweden; Simultan Video Festival, Timisoara, Romania.

He has collaborated online with, Talking Birds - Coventry, UK, The Praxis Group, Post Videoart.com, and VideoArt.net. He is as a winner of Günter Selichar’s “Who’s Afraid of Blue, Red, and Green?” which ran in the Creative Times’ 59th Minute series on the NBC Astrovision Screen in Times Square NYC June-Sept 2004.

Artist Statement: Atomic Elroy is a time based media artist working in video installation and performance. Manipulating electrons and calling it art. He uses a self mocking approach to all artistic values and standards, producing universal statements of life and culture.