ELKE SOLOMON

Elke Solomon (New York City) has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Her practice includes: painting, drawing, performance, installation and bi-weekly social media posts. In 2000, she began cutting stencils of identifiable objects from Western culture. The images were initially painted with an overall format – disjunctive, non-formal, non-hierarchical and non-compositional, casual – and share the same space on the plane of the painting. Viewers therefore, construct meaning by prompting an internal dialogue about the nature of the images’ inherent narratives (e.g. social narrative).

Her work is included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, among others. She has taught at various institutions: Princeton University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Parsons, The New School for Design. She is a founding member of the Heresies Collective. She was Prints and Drawings Curator at The Whitney Museum of American Art. Solomon has been awarded numerous grants including CAPS, NEA and a Residency Grant, Piedmont, Italy. www.elkesolomon.com, @elkesolomon

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