Elijah Grannis is a California-born conceptual artist who works primarily in epoxy resin and alcohol inks. His practice is deeply experimental: Grannis layers pigmented inks and pigments into high-gloss resin, embracing improvisation and chance as part of the creative process. Critics note that he “redefines resin art” through this approach, using material processes to generate abstract imagery that pulses with life. Grannis deliberately balances control and spontaneity – one critic observes that his work emerges from “a delicate interplay of control and spontaneity” – positioning him as an innovative emerging voice in contemporary fluid abstraction.

In the studio Grannis often pours epoxy resin in thick layers, into which he introduces vibrant alcohol-based inks (and often powdered pigments). He allows the inks to bloom and spread organically as the resin cures, creating unpredictable, “living” patterns. For example, in his Ink Splash series the pigment “flows freely within the resin, forming organic, unpredictable shapes that are never the same twice”. This layer-by-layer process adds depth and transparency – one writer describes each piece as a kind of “liquid landscape”. In every work, time becomes part of the image: colors drift and merge in slow motion, revealing new details only as the resin hardens.

Grannis’s flowing abstractions encourage viewers to contemplate change, movement and impermanence. By “letting the materials speak,” he literally turns random processes into “visual poetry”. Color in his work seems to breathe, shift and evolve, so that hints of natural forms – oceans, skies or microscopic cells – can emerge in the abstract surface. Recurring concepts include the tension between chaos and order and the beauty of unpredictability. This combination of poetic vision and technical rigor has established Grannis as a serious emerging artist in the contemporary resin-art scene, bridging scientific process with lyrical expression.