Christine Elfman is an artist based in Ithaca, New York who explores the inseparability of stillness and change, resolution and ambiguity, intention and the unforeseen. She uses photographic processes in which the subject matter acts as its own medium to make images that slowly shift in meaning and form over time. Many of her photographs are made by fading natural dyes in the sun, and continue to disappear when viewed. Elfman has had solo exhibitions at Penumbra Foundation (New York), Wasserman Projects (Detroit, MI), Houston Center for Photography (Houston, TX), EUQINOM Gallery (San Francisco), TILT Center for the Contemporary Image (Philadelphia), University of the Arts (Philadelphia), Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco). She is the recipient of a Light Work Grant, and residencies at Constance Saltonstall Foundation and the Cape Cod National Seashore. Her work has been featured in publications including BOMB Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, and Der Greif. She received her BFA from Cornell University and MFA from California College of the Arts. Elfman is represented by EUQINOM Gallery (San Francisco), and currently teaches photography at Ithaca College.
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BOMB MAGAZINE : Kim Beil
48 HILLS : Tamara Suarez Porras
Other Press
Dyes fading in the sun pressed in contact with transparencies, Danby, NY, 2020
Dyes fading in the sun pressed in contact with transparencies, Brooktondale, NY, 2017
Amaranth dye fading in the sun pressed in contact with transparency of Actaeon, Oakland, CA, 2016
