The 40 small works, elegant, bold, and exactingly precise, illustrate subjects from bejeweled women to mythic beasts.
In some works elegant glass or metal objects and their reflections or refractions combine with pale, sometimes crisply segmented backdrops, forming spare still lifes that are also quasi-abstract meditations on optics.
But the bar is custom work: elegant and spare.
Thomas Monath of OraVax, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, company that developed a competing yellow fever hybrid vaccine, calls the work "elegant" but questions whether the weakened virus would provoke a strong enough immune response to protect monkeys, and by extension humans.
His signature works are elegant, indelibly shocking photographs of fragmented, anatomically preposterous female dolls that he made of wood, plaster, and papier-mâché.
Josh Brolin is bashing away at a new novel without much success, while wife Naomi Watts works for elegant art gallerist Antonio Banderas.
This is a fan's way of saying that his work is elegant and accessible rather than complex or thorny.
Often I would see him on his own in Soho after work, always elegant and handsome, but a little lost, I thought.
"For me, his work was elegant and beautiful, just like a good poem," said Amanda E. Rosenberger, an assistant professor in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, wiping away tears.
Her work is elegant, experimental, impassioned, incantatory and visually striking – almost hallucinatory in its appeal to the senses, its rhythmic force.
In the gallery, the work looks elegant but less imaginatively surprising than you would expect given the ideas that inspire it.
