Spring
Elisheva Biernoff American
Not on view
At just 36 years old, the artist is a member of new generation of artists who effortlessly move back and forth in their work from painting to photography to sculpture, installation art, and video, and then back again. This miniature (3 ½” square) painting made on 1/32” birch plywood is a seemingly exact replica of a color snapshot of two young girls playing with a garden hose one might find carefully preserved in a family album, or discarded and forgotten in yard sale shoebox. Presented with an artist-designed stand stand, the unique work, Spring, is shown unframed as a miniature sculpture. The work wonderfully tricks the eye which at first glance perceives the object as if it were a color photograph; once discovered, the remarkable verisimilitude asks existential questions about the role of the photography and painting today.
