Erika Blumenfeld (b. 1971, USA) is an internationally acclaimed photo-based artist and Guggenheim Fellow with a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design.
Blumenfeld approaches her work much like an ecological archivist, and has chronicled a wide range of subjects through the study, witness and documentation of our natural world and humanity’s relationship with it. Blumenfeld’s investigations have led her to follow a non-traditional career trajectory, and her work has led her to investigate the physics of atmospheric and astronomic phenomena as well as the simple beauties and complex afflictions of our environment and ecologies. Blumenfeld has been awarded rare opportunities to do projects with the Scripps Institution for Oceanography, the McDonald Observatory and the South African National Antarctic Program.
Blumenfeld’s eco-photojournalistic work brings her work into the social context, and the artist documents the environmental and human impacts caused by industrial negligence and climate disruption in order to look at connections between nature and culture. In her documentation of the Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, she chronicles the ongoing struggles of fishing communities, marine ecosystems and human health across Gulf. Blumenfeld’s work in El Salvador documents the plight of rural communities along the coast as they work to establish a healthy sustainable environment and build solutions to mediate the effects of climate disruption.
Blumenfeld’s work has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries in the US and abroad, including the TATE Modern (London, UK), Fondation EDF Espace Electra (Paris, France), Albright Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Ballroom (Marfa, Texas), DiverseWorks Art Space (Houston, Texas), Färgfabriken Norr (Östersund, Sweden), Galerie der Stadt Mainz-Brückenturm (Mainz, Germany), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway), OCA (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, Oregon), Stadtgalerie (Kiel, Germany), Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam, Netherlands), among many others.
In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, Blumenfeld has received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, Land Rheinland-Pfalz Kultusministerium, Polaroid Corporation, and a Purchase Award from the New Mexico Museum of Art. She has been awarded artist-in-residences with Cape Farewell and Ballroom Marfa, and was awarded a Special Editions Fellowship from the Lower East Side Printshop.
Her work has been featured in Foto8, Art In America, ARTnews, and Camera Arts magazines, has been published by Al Jazeera English (both online and TV), Climatestorytellers, The Indypendent, Inter Press Service, Truthout, and has appeared on Democracy Now!, among others. Her work appears in more than a half dozen books, including Photography: New Mexico (Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2008), The Polaroid Book (Taschen 2005 & 2008), Arte da Antarctica (Goethe- Institut, 2009) and the forthcoming book Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (Subhankar Banerjee, 2012).
Blumenfeld’s works are in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Lannan Foundation, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, The Polaroid Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the University of Texas.
featured artist: Erika Blumenfeld
May 17th, 2012
We are excited to be featuring artist Erika Blumenfeld in concert with our Spring show, when space becomes place, opening this evening. Along with the show on view at Light Spot, we are doing a special online offer of Blumenfeld's "Antarctica Vol. 3 (Ice Horizons), 2009" portfolio, a suite of 8 digital pigment prints housed in an embossed handmade portfolio box, Edition of 20. This portfolio is only available through online order with Mondo Fine Art. Please contact us for more info at: info@mondofineart.com
Erika Blumenfeld (b. 1971, USA) is an internationally acclaimed photo-based artist and Guggenheim Fellow with a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design.
Blumenfeld approaches her work much like an ecological archivist, and has chronicled a wide range of subjects through the study, witness and documentation of our natural world and humanity’s relationship with it. Blumenfeld’s investigations have led her to follow a non-traditional career trajectory, and her work has led her to investigate the physics of atmospheric and astronomic phenomena as well as the simple beauties and complex afflictions of our environment and ecologies. Blumenfeld has been awarded rare opportunities to do projects with the Scripps Institution for Oceanography, the McDonald Observatory and the South African National Antarctic Program.
Blumenfeld’s eco-photojournalistic work brings her work into the social context, and the artist documents the environmental and human impacts caused by industrial negligence and climate disruption in order to look at connections between nature and culture. In her documentation of the Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, she chronicles the ongoing struggles of fishing communities, marine ecosystems and human health across Gulf. Blumenfeld’s work in El Salvador documents the plight of rural communities along the coast as they work to establish a healthy sustainable environment and build solutions to mediate the effects of climate disruption.
Blumenfeld’s work has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries in the US and abroad, including the TATE Modern (London, UK), Fondation EDF Espace Electra (Paris, France), Albright Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Ballroom (Marfa, Texas), DiverseWorks Art Space (Houston, Texas), Färgfabriken Norr (Östersund, Sweden), Galerie der Stadt Mainz-Brückenturm (Mainz, Germany), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway), OCA (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, Oregon), Stadtgalerie (Kiel, Germany), Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam, Netherlands), among many others.
In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, Blumenfeld has received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, Land Rheinland-Pfalz Kultusministerium, Polaroid Corporation, and a Purchase Award from the New Mexico Museum of Art. She has been awarded artist-in-residences with Cape Farewell and Ballroom Marfa, and was awarded a Special Editions Fellowship from the Lower East Side Printshop.
Her work has been featured in Foto8, Art In America, ARTnews, and Camera Arts magazines, has been published by Al Jazeera English (both online and TV), Climatestorytellers, The Indypendent, Inter Press Service, Truthout, and has appeared on Democracy Now!, among others. Her work appears in more than a half dozen books, including Photography: New Mexico (Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2008), The Polaroid Book (Taschen 2005 & 2008), Arte da Antarctica (Goethe- Institut, 2009) and the forthcoming book Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (Subhankar Banerjee, 2012).
Blumenfeld’s works are in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Lannan Foundation, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, The Polaroid Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the University of Texas.
Erika Blumenfeld (b. 1971, USA) is an internationally acclaimed photo-based artist and Guggenheim Fellow with a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design.
Blumenfeld approaches her work much like an ecological archivist, and has chronicled a wide range of subjects through the study, witness and documentation of our natural world and humanity’s relationship with it. Blumenfeld’s investigations have led her to follow a non-traditional career trajectory, and her work has led her to investigate the physics of atmospheric and astronomic phenomena as well as the simple beauties and complex afflictions of our environment and ecologies. Blumenfeld has been awarded rare opportunities to do projects with the Scripps Institution for Oceanography, the McDonald Observatory and the South African National Antarctic Program.
Blumenfeld’s eco-photojournalistic work brings her work into the social context, and the artist documents the environmental and human impacts caused by industrial negligence and climate disruption in order to look at connections between nature and culture. In her documentation of the Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, she chronicles the ongoing struggles of fishing communities, marine ecosystems and human health across Gulf. Blumenfeld’s work in El Salvador documents the plight of rural communities along the coast as they work to establish a healthy sustainable environment and build solutions to mediate the effects of climate disruption.
Blumenfeld’s work has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries in the US and abroad, including the TATE Modern (London, UK), Fondation EDF Espace Electra (Paris, France), Albright Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Ballroom (Marfa, Texas), DiverseWorks Art Space (Houston, Texas), Färgfabriken Norr (Östersund, Sweden), Galerie der Stadt Mainz-Brückenturm (Mainz, Germany), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway), OCA (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, Oregon), Stadtgalerie (Kiel, Germany), Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam, Netherlands), among many others.
In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, Blumenfeld has received grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, Land Rheinland-Pfalz Kultusministerium, Polaroid Corporation, and a Purchase Award from the New Mexico Museum of Art. She has been awarded artist-in-residences with Cape Farewell and Ballroom Marfa, and was awarded a Special Editions Fellowship from the Lower East Side Printshop.
Her work has been featured in Foto8, Art In America, ARTnews, and Camera Arts magazines, has been published by Al Jazeera English (both online and TV), Climatestorytellers, The Indypendent, Inter Press Service, Truthout, and has appeared on Democracy Now!, among others. Her work appears in more than a half dozen books, including Photography: New Mexico (Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2008), The Polaroid Book (Taschen 2005 & 2008), Arte da Antarctica (Goethe- Institut, 2009) and the forthcoming book Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (Subhankar Banerjee, 2012).
Blumenfeld’s works are in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Lannan Foundation, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, The Polaroid Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the University of Texas.