Liz Nielsen

Lives and works in Newburgh, NY, USA

Artist statement

My artistic practice explores the boundaries of photography beyond traditional representation or documentary form. My analog photograms, or ‘light paintings’ are created using techniques developed over the years through experimentation. In complete darkness, I expose light sensitive material dozens of times and then process it through traditional photographic chemicals. Each image created is unique. My photograms reflect a fascination with light as a tangible yet ethereal phenomenon. My work is about harnessing its incredible power and shaping space + eclipsing/collapsing time, merging a multiplicity of realities into a finite yet dynamic form.

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