Christine Elfman is an artist exploring photography as the impossible desire for resolution, through the medium’s inherent contrasts of stillness and change, stability and ephemerality, clarity and mystery. She makes photographs in which the subject matter acts as its own medium to reveal images that slowly shift in meaning and form. Many of her photographs are made by fading natural dyes in the sun, and are impossible to fix or resolve. Her work has been exhibited widely, with recent solo exhibitions at Houston Center for Photography in Texas and Penumbra Foundation in New York City, as well as group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. She has been awarded grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Light Work, and residencies at Constance Saltonstall Foundation and the Cape Cod National Seashore. Reviews, interviews, and portfolio features have appeared in BOMB Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, and Der Greif. Elfman received her BFA from Cornell University in 2004 and MFA from California College of the Arts in 2012. She has worked extensively with alternative and historic photographic processes in her studio, Scully & Osterman Studio, and museum collections. She lives in Ithaca, NY and teaches photography at Ithaca College and Cornell University. She is represented by EUQINOM Gallery in San Francisco.
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BOMB MAGAZINE : Kim Beil
48 HILLS : Tamara Suarez Porras
Other Press
All solid shapes dissolve in light, dyes fading in the sun pressed in contact with transparencies, Danby, NY, 2020
Objects Apparitions, dyes fading in the sun pressed in contact with transparencies, Brooktondale, NY, 2017
Even Amaranth, dye fading in the sun pressed in contact with transparency of Actaeon, Oakland, CA, 2016
