With Abandoned Painting, So You Made this Painting Sometime Ago and Bad Summer Summer Good Ellis attacks his paintings to a point where the underlying physical and sculptural properties overwhelm their pictorial function. Abandoned Painting and Bad Summer Summer Good, with their painted surfaces cut away to reveal blackened stretchers below, become the artist�s monument to loss and failure, at once deeply personal and, in the context of the art world, provocatively downbeat and nihilistic. In So You Made This Painting Sometime Ago? Ellis attaches a smaller painting to the surface of a larger work creating a sense of unreconciled tension between the pathos of the former and the absolute uperficiality of the text emblazoned on the latter.

In a series of paintings collectively titled The Sunny Isles Potaintings and the video work Abuse Bucher
(Abuse Books) Ellis confronts his own egotism with an irreverent, aggressive, humorous anarchy of
expression. The artistic project becomes a matter of self-expression at any cost, good or bad, enlightening
or offensive, uplifting or just downright rude.
Tom Ellis� unapologetic work is centered around humor, aggression, the bad, the paradoxes and existential
problems that emerge if one actually begins to seek the BAD, and of course, as seen in his recent text
installation at Pulse, Miami, Je Ne Regrette Rien or �No regrets�, the anarchic implications of adopting such
a devil-may-care approach. Ellis� multifaceted work has been shown at the new London-based art fair, Year
06; Kontainer, Los Angeles; K3, Zurich; and at MOT International, Platform and T1+2 Artspace in London.