Faculty

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 over time. 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 at the Eastman Museum and Berkeley Art Museum. She currently teaches photography at Ithaca College and Cornell University, and has taught previously at San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, Bowdoin College, and Wells College. She is represented by EUQINOM Gallery in San Francisco.

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BOMB Magazine Interview with Kim Beil