Light Recording: Meditation on Radiance No. 3, 2002, LightJet print and aluminum panel, 35 1/2 x 45 1/4" [Enlarge in New Window]

Erika Blumenfeld: Light Graphs

Email Erika Blumenfeld at info@erikablumenfeld.com

Links:

Blumenfeld at Lower East Side Printshop | erikablumenfeld.com |

Bio:

Erika Blumenfeld is an internationally exhibiting artist currently based in Marfa, Texas.

In 1998, inspired by the distinct quality of light that pervades the skies of the Southwestern United States, Blumenfeld developed a process to reduce photography to its most essential ingredients: light and light-sensitive material. Foregoing the use of a traditional camera, the artist instead builds special recording devices, which she uses to expose photographic papers, films and digital media directly to the ever-changing sunlight and moonlight. In her resulting photo-based works and video installations, natural light phenomenon is medium and subject—non-objective documentations of light itself as seen through the cycles of astronomic and atmospheric events.

Blumenfeld’s recent installations have been exhibited widely at galleries, museums and non-profits throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Ballroom in Marfa, Texas; the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe; the Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA) in Brussels; DiverseWorks Art Space in Houston; the Galerie der Stadt Mainz-Brückenturm in Mainz, Germany; the Hertfordshire University Galleries (UH Galleries) in Hertfordshire, England; Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, Norway; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) in Oregon; and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her work has been featured in Art In America, ARTnews, Arté Contemporary, and Camera Arts magazines, and is included in The Polaroid Book published by Taschen. She has received grants from the Land Rheinland-Pfalz Kultusministerium in Germany and the Polaroid Corporation. Blumenfeld was also Ballroom Marfa's inaugural artist-in-residence and was awarded a Special Editions Fellowship from the Lower East Side Printshop in New York. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe and The Polaroid Collection.

THIS PROJECT'S CATEGORIES: Visual > Photography | Environment | Southwest / Pacific | 2000