Christine Elfman is an artist based in Ithaca, New York who makes images that combine stillness with change, clarity with ambiguity, intention with chance. She uses slow high-resolution photographic processes in which the subject matter acts as its own medium to make living images that refuse to be fixed or resolved. Elfman’s recent solo exhibitions include Penumbra Foundation in New York, Houston Center for Photography, TILT Center for the Contemporary Image and University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, Gallery Wendi Norris and EUQINOM Gallery in San Francisco. She received her BFA from Cornell University and MFA from California College of the Arts. Her photographs have appeared in publications such as BOMB Magazine, 1000words, The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, and Der Greif. She has been awarded a Light Work Grant in Photography and residencies at the Penumbra Foundation, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and the Cape Cod National Seashore. She currently teaches photography at Cornell University and Ithaca College.
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BOMB MAGAZINE : Kim Beil
48 HILLS : Tamara Suarez Porras
Other Press
Calm, Euqinom Gallery, 2020, installation view: Mask of Camille, Coral, Amaranth, and Series of Fractures exhibited with the work of Mona Kuhn
Dyes fading in the sun pressed in contact with transparencies, Danby, NY, 2020
Calm, Euqinom Gallery, 2020, installation view: Stag silver gelatin print with the work of Michael Light and Georgia Valli
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
