Join us on March 19th for the opening reception of All solid shapes dissolve in light, featuring works by Christine Elfman. The artist will be in attendance.


About the Exhibition:

All solid shapes dissolve in light centers around the artist’s work with anthotypes made from lichen dye and developed through month-long exposures in the sun. Elfman uses both medium and subject to explore the unity and tension of binaries such as stillness and change, distance and intimacy, and visibility and the unknown.

Bearing witness to the natural cycle of growth and decay, the anthotype is a photograph made from the same components that eventually facilitate its entropy. Christine Elfman’s fading pictures embody the constant transformation of objects, images, and memory. The images develop slowly: sitting outside for a month, the sun bleaches paper saturated with light-sensitive natural dyes. Once complete, these unfixable photographs slowly fade from the very same light that allows them to be seen. 

All solid shapes dissolve in light will be on view March 19 - April 30, 2022.

To read the full press release, click here.