Elias creates works that articulate a “new language” using color form and abstraction, as a specific method of telling story.
Considered to be a distant cousin to the abstract expressionists the artist terms his own work “spiritual landscape abstractions”

Second generation Chicago born artist, Joshua Elias’ work is widely collected. Recent inclusions are at the Rand Corporation,
Charles Weingarten Annenberg Foundation, as well as numerous private collections throughout the U.S. and in Europe.

Recent works exhibited at the Liz Gordon Gallery in Los Angeles
And new paintings featured at the Kohler Home of the Future at the TED CONFERENCE in Long Beach California

As well as a special ECO exhibit at the Sundance Film Festival
in 2009 in Park City Utah
Two seminal double-sided paintings were commissioned
by designer Kelly Wearstler and remain at the famous VICEROY HOTEL in Santa Monica California

Elias works at his studio located at the Brewery Arts Complex in Los Angeles California.

Selected Exhibitions  ARTIST Joshua Elias

• TED.com 25th Design Showcase Long Beach Convention Center
• “Kohler Home of the Future” 09
• RAND Corporation Private Exhibition
• Two new additions in their Corp. Collection-Santa Monica
• ALIVE collection Exhibited at SUNDANCE FILM FEST 09
• MA Hunt Gallery on State Solo- Santa Barbara
• DCA Fine Art Solo Exhibit-Santa Monica
• Farmani Gallery Solo Exhibit- Beverly Hills
• MOCA Fresh Show Summer Auction
• WalART Sweet Show
• Epoxy Box Gallery- Venice
• Red House Gallery- the Red Show
• Gallery C- the 21 Show
• Livre Artists’ Book Show- Chartes, France
• Gallery C – The Art of Paint
• Urban Canvas – Venice
• Art Concepts – Bergamot Station Solo
• Sperone/Westwater – Visual Aids Show
• AnD Lab Gallery- Los Angeles
• LACMA: Made in California – Mail Art Exchange
• Patricia Correia Juried Exhibition, Santa Monica
• Bookarts – The Short Son, Santa Monica
• BGH Gallery – Millennium Bergamot Station Santa Monica
• Lendrum Fine Art
• Palazzetti Design
• Albert Stuart Gallery
• Barnsdall Art Center
• LACMA – Appetite for Art
• Enclave Gallery
• Design Art and Architecture
• Cedars Sinai Print Collection
• Pacific Design Center – Signatures
• MWP/Nancy Sadler Gallery
• Children’s Hospital – Seattle
• Los Angeles County Museum Exhibitions I

Auctions

• Celebrities4Charity – Riverside
• Pharmeka Art Auction
• LA
• Long Beach Museum of Art
• Our House Foundation
• Centre Theatre – Mark Taper
• Shelter Foundation
• Surfrider Foundation
• S.R.O. Housing

Performance

• Erato Live painting with 24 piece orchestra, Kodak Center Hollywood
• Art Share/Fussfactory
• “The Story of Glass”
• Copper Canyon College
• “Earthworks”

Education

• Design, Art, and Architecture, SMC
• Sylvana Barrett GETTY Consultant /Historical Techniques
• Otis School of Design- Studio Fine Art
• Santa Monica City College
• B.A. San Diego State University-Telecommunications/Film

Seminars/ Participants/Moderated (selected )

• CalArts CHANCE Conference California Nevada border
• Jean Baudrillard
• Claremont Colleges, Intermedia Studies
• Elias Speech “ the Living Artist “
• CalStateLA – Critical Thinking/Creative Thinking in Business
• Elias Speech “ Getting Comfortable with Mystery”

Artwork for Movies/Television

• Capitol One Commercial
• Brothers and Sisters
• Blow APIX Productions
• Baby Love Mojave Films
• Eli Stone ABC
• Brothers and Sisters ABC
• Six Feet Under Alan Ball Productions
• Oh, Grow Up ABC Television
• Players NBC Television

Commissions

• Arlook Residence
• Coolman/Rosenberg Residence
• Napleteano Residence
• Gale Residence
• Pinto Residence Del Mar
• Community of Angels 2001
• Maison 140, Beverly Hills
• Avalon Hotel, Beverly Hills
• The Viceroy Hotel, Santa Monica
• Viceroy, Palm Springs

Press

• California Home & Design
• Access Hollywood
• LA Times
• New York Times
• House & Beautiful
• Interior Design Magazine
• Los Angeles Times “Calendar Section”
• Wallpaper
• The Valley View
• LA Downtown News
• ShopLift
• Modern Glamour (book)
• Angeleno Magazine featured article