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Dispersion Field

Eric Eley

Harborview Medical Center

Layered geometric forms create a deep, transportive landscape.

Eric Eley. Dispersion Field, 2009. Dry pigment, ink, acrylic, colored pencil, and graphite on panel. Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA. King County Public Art Collection. Photo: Spike Mafford

A geometric landscape stretches across a long, wood-paneled wall in the narrow reception area of the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, located in Harborview’s Ninth & Jefferson Building. Inspired by its setting, Eric Eley’s Dispersion Field borrows from various types of scientific and mathematical diagramming.

Together, four angular panels form a large drawing layered with a patchwork of linear clusters, bursts of light, and translucent color fields. With their rich detail, these overlapping elements add dimension to the room, offering an aperture through which visitors and employees can explore an imaginary space.

My work imagines form behind and beyond what is visible. Using rational building blocks like lines, points, and planes, I create expansive imagery that plays with the subjectivity of perspective and scale. –Eric Eley
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Currently based in Dallas, TX, Eley is an artist and educator who makes drawings, sculpture, and installations. In addition to his public art projects, his studio work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as in Germany and Switzerland.
Eric Eley. Dispersion Field (detail), 2009. Dry pigment, ink, acrylic, colored pencil, and graphite on panel. Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA. King County Public Art Collection. Photo: Spike Mafford
Eric Eley. Dispersion Field (detail), 2009. Dry pigment, ink, acrylic, colored pencil, and graphite on panel. Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA. King County Public Art Collection. Photo: Spike Mafford
 

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Harborview Medical Center

For more than a century, Harborview Medical Center has functioned as a unique community and regional resource. It is a county hospital, a teaching and research institution, a regional trauma and burn center, and the primary health care provider for many low-income and disenfranchised people in the community. Harborview embraces its mission of treating everybody…

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