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Atomic Elroy "Fail Better" at the LA Center for Digital Art

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Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
410 South Spring St
Los Angeles, California 90013
Thursday, May 7, 2026 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free

Atomic Elroy approaches images as material—raw, mutable, and open to reconstruction. Working through digital collage, he builds compositions via pixel assemblage, combining self-captured and sourced imagery, often intervening directly with a stylus to draw into the surface. The result is a layered visual field where fragments are recontextualized into new forms of coherence.

This body of work is driven by questions of influence, energy, and lived experience. Figures appear as icons—carriers of cultural and personal resonance—while the environments they occupy suggest zones of familiarity and psychological grounding.

Recurring crackled lines move through the compositions as visualizations of chi: an unseen, animating force. At times these currents emanate from specific objects; elsewhere they drift freely, unbound and ambient—potential energy awaiting recognition and direction.

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