Inside that consistent scale is a visual world of infinite, and sometimes bizarre, variety. The only predictable thing about his work is that it is drawn or painted almost exclusively on blocks of pre-cut wood, or on filing cards that are 3 by 5 inches, a format he began using in 1981. His subjects are as varied as the materials and media with which he chooses to work there are fragile landscapes and A-Bomb paintings, classical figure studies and wildly erotic couplings, fantastic and surreal creatures of an unnamed future done in the same breath as demure and elegant ladies from an undetermined past. Paintings,вЂќ which include identification cards collaged into mixed media works вЂњUntitled Book Paintings,вЂќ which are painted to resemble small antique books with marbled covers and spines and, most recently, computer drawings produced with the help of Adobe Illustrator. He has placed over 1000 of his drawings in the Raymond Fogelman Library at the New School for Social Research in New York (the 1997 exhibition was called вЂњFile Card Works Hidden in BooksвЂќ) he has done monochromatic вЂњBrick PaintingsвЂќ that look like what theyвЂ™re called вЂњI.D. He will also make art out of any subject for pretty well any purpose. Eyland is also promiscuously productive he draws or paints every day-he has been known to complete 100 drawings in a single day-and now claims that he can make art as fast as he can sign his signature. The stuff he refers to is a rich and varied aesthetic practice. As he says in the following interview, his attitude has never been to get people to accept his work, but rather, вЂњtry to stop me making this stuff.вЂќ It comes closest to meaning ungoverned, or, more accurately, ungovernable. In Edgar Allen PoeвЂ™s formulation, the imp was вЂњan innate and primitive principle of human action, a paradoxical something, which we may call perverseness.вЂќ The fit is a good one, as long as you understand that the term primitive has nothing to do with a lack of sophistication. Cliff Eyland is an art-world Imp of the Perverse.

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