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Liz Nielsen

The Medium

April 8 – May 7, 2016

 Midnight Stroll, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Midnight Stroll, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

50 x 65 3/16 inches

 Black Rainbow, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Black Rainbow, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

50 x 68 7/16 inches

 Magic Cactus, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Magic Cactus, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

64 5/8 x 48 inches

 Concert Flame, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Concert Flame, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

69 9/16 x 50 inches

 Ring of Runes, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Ring of Runes, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

39 7/16 x 40 inches

 Magic Mountain, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Magic Mountain, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

50 x 69 3/4 inches

 

 Group Seance, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Group Seance, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

40 x 69 11/16 inches

 The Echoing Portal, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

The Echoing Portal, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

65 1/8 x 50 inches

 Aura, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Aura, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

40 x 46 1/2 inches

 Dusk Sky with Supermoon and Mountains, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Dusk Sky with Supermoon and Mountains, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

17 x 27 inches

 Moons (Roberta), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Moons (Roberta), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

30 x 30 inches

 Moons (Jules), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Moons (Jules), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

30 x 30 inches

 Moons (Justine), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Moons (Justine), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

30 x 30 inches

 Moons (Carolyn), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Moons (Carolyn), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

30 x 30 inches

 Venn Sunset over Dark Forest, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Venn Sunset over Dark Forest, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

17 x 22 inches

 Moons (Nyan), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Moons (Nyan), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

15 x 14 inches

 Rainbow, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Rainbow, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

16 x 20 inches

 Blush Moons (Britta), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Blush Moons (Britta), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

6 x 6 inches

 Castle, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Castle, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

14 x 11 inches

 Double Moons (Michael and Alan), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Double Moons (Michael and Alan), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

9 x 18 inches

 Flags 3, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Flags 3, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

11 x 14 inches

 Flags 6, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Flags 6, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

11 x 14 inches

 Double Moons (Luca + Lelu), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Double Moons (Luca + Lelu), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

7 x 17 inches

 Blush Moons (Marca), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Blush Moons (Marca), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

7 x 6 inches 

 Prayer Flags, Left, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Prayer Flags, Left, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

20 x 24 inches

 Prayer Flags, Right, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Prayer Flags, Right, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

20 x 24 inches

 Sanctuary, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Sanctuary, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

32 x 27 inches

 Mountains with UFO, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Mountains with UFO, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

24 x 22 inches

 Pink Oracle, 2016 , 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Pink Oracle, 2016 

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

14 x 11 inches

 Blush Moons (Lila), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Blush Moons (Lila), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

6 x 6 inches

 Blush Moons (Dragona), 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Blush Moons (Dragona), 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

6 x 6 inches

 Red Sunset Mountains, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Red Sunset Mountains, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

19 x 17 inches

 Mirage, 2016 , 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Mirage, 2016 

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

11 x 14 inches

 Tree, 2016, 	Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Tree, 2016

Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique

Printed on FujiFlex

30 x 11 inches

Press Release

Liz Nielsen

April 8 – May 7, 2016

Press Release -

Danziger Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Liz Nielsen. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Its title “The Medium” refers both to the ever expanding reach and potential of the photographic medium as well as art’s power as a mystical intervening agency delivering spaces of transcendence.

Liz Nielsen’s work joins and adds to the historical tradition of the photogram – one of the medium’s earliest processes - but one which has enjoyed a renaissance in the worlds of contemporary art and color photography. Simply described, a photogram is an image created without a camera by placing objects or shining light directly onto photographic paper and developing the paper. Each picture is by nature unique - a record of the moment or event created by the artist.

A pioneer in what could be called photographic abstract expressionism, Nielsen audaciously experiments with photographic process, expressing her individual psyche while attempting to tap into universal sources of imagination. Even when creating images based on visual realities, Nielsen favors a highly abstracted mode.

To make her pictures, Nielsen cuts, shapes, layers, draws on, and assembles transparent color gels into a handmade “negative” through which she projects varied light sources onto photographic paper – from an enlarger light to lasers to cellphone lights (and everything in-between). These different lights allow Nielsen to essentially paint onto the paper in broad to narrow strokes. Color fields wash or overlap, small forms appear within forms, shapes shift.

In her latest work - which makes up the body of this show - Nielsen has for the first time used Fujiflex paper – a paper known for it’s glossy surface and richness of color. Working in a new studio space, she has created pictures at a larger scale than was previously possible for her and which allow her to further explore the expressive potential of color. Reflective and cerebral, Nielsen’s pictorial notions make an elemental impact somewhere between the luminous and the sublime.

Liz Nielsen was born in Wisconsin in 1975 and lives and works in New York City. She received a M.F.A. in Photography at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nielsen’s work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Berlin, and reviewed in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal.