CAPE NOIR BY ELISE KAUFMAN
ON EXHIBIT: AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 18
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, August 9 from 6 - 8 PM
ARTIST STATEMENT
My recent photographs of Provincetown explore the spaces between light and dark, movement, atmosphere, and texture to evoke souvenir and memento. In a town where there are so many present and it can be difficult to find quiet spaces, I prefer to express “presence” in other ways: through landscape, architecture, by objects that have been left behind, and especially through “absence.” Regardless of whether I am working with photography or other media, I am particularly interested in the unexpected, material of media, and exploring remembrance.
Artist’s Bio:
Elise Kaufman is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator working in a variety of modalities which includes photography and photo-based processes, as well as printmaking, drawing and painting. Recent experimentations have extended her practice to explore narrative, time and the nature of memory. She has exhibited her work in New York City, Provincetown (MA), and Ireland and her work is included in public and private collections including The Arkansas Art Museum, The Ballinglen Art Museum (Ireland), The Boise Art Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, The Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University), and The Weatherspoon Art Gallery Kaufman is a Professor of Art at Pratt Institute and lives and works in Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, New York.