Liz Nielsen

Liz Nielsen’s work is a contemporary application of one of the best known and most engaging avant-garde photographic processes, the photogram, whereby an image is created without a camera by placing objects directly onto photographic paper and exposing them to light. Nielsen dislocates the photogram from its historic time period and even from its relationship to photography in the traditional sense, as defined by the notion that an image or impression of an object would be affixed to the paper. Nielsen creates handmade negatives with transparent color gels, which she applies in bold shapes and layers to create shifts in form and color. It is a negative process, so that colors are reversed. It has taken Nielsen many years of dedicated darkroom experimentation to layer the overlapping shapes so that a subtle color results instead of pure white.

Nielsen’s work has been exhibited extensively in Chicago, New York, and Berlin, her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Schalter Gallery,Berlin, Benrimon Contemporary, New York City, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI and Laurence Miller Gallery, New York. 

Courtesy of Denny Gallery