Elinor Milchan

Catalog # 21
Elinor Milchan

"Hear My Mind" from the "Light Land" Series

2006

29"x29"

Photography printed on clear photography paper and face mounted onto plexiglass
http://elinorartworks.com/

About the artwork:

The Light Lands series is the expression of a passage beyond the surface of reality, an expression of movement and time that leads the mind to a boundless territory. In a liberated Nothing, in a borderless space, where surface is transcended, thought becomes movement, and “the true movement of being begins”. (Kazimir Malevich.) Captured in a studio setting, the LightLands series is a photographic body of work created with light, color gels and long exposures. Unique in its technique, captured and composed with strokes of light, the works convey the depth of time fleeting.

About the artist:

Elinor Milchan is a self-taught photography and video artist. She started taking pictures at the age of twelve, and was printing her own stills by the age of fourteen. Her work focuses primary on light and the subject of time, visually capturing its passage and the experience of what remains of it. Critics from The LACMA and Art in Art America have praised the inventiveness of her unique technique, describing it as “liberating the medium”, and opening “up the interstices of light”,reminding “us that the essential of photography is light itself.” * Milchan’s exhibitions and work have been featured and reviewed in various international art publications, and included in contemporary art auctions, such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Her work is included in many private and public collections, including the Tel Aviv Museum, and has received support for public art collaborations and installations by the likes of corporations such as MTV, JPMorgan/Chase, NewsCorp/20th Century Fox, Leaf, Bezalel, UBS, Credit Suisse, BCRE-US and Africa-Israel. Milchan’s series, the UrbanLands, was exhibited in early 2009, at the Tel Aviv Museum as part of a large photography group show entitled: Time Tel Aviv 2009 as well as in New York and Paris. Elinor Milchan is teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. She is the cofounder of Artea Projects, and is currently co-curating public art projects for the city of New York. *©Copyright 2005, Daniel Belasco. All rights reserved