Jeff Elrod | Sensing Meaning, Abstract Painting

Jeff Elrod is included in Sensing Meaning, Abstract Painting, a group exhibition on view at Ruby City in San Antonio, Texas through August 30, 2026.

This exhibition brings together abstract paintings from multiple artists with works dating from the recent past to as early as 1945. Sensing Meaning, Abstract Painting showcases the diverse approaches to abstraction that artists have adopted including Joan Mitchell’s gestural expressionism, Nancy Haynes’s minimalist sensibility, Pablo Picasso’s biomorphic forms, and Sarah Morris’s geometric compositions to name a few.

The artists included in Sensing Meaning, Abstract Painting create poetic interpretations through their use of space, color, line, and form, conveying feelings or capturing the experience of particular moments in time and place through abstract gestures. Some of the artists use these elements to investigate painting’s history or to play with its fundamental nature and to question and experiment with the medium’s two-dimensional constraints. The exhibition includes examples that employ nontraditional materials—or that do not incorporate paint at all—as well as works that are typically considered sculptures.

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit Ruby City's website.