Liz Nielsen
February 18 – March 26, 2011
Schalter is pleased to present LIZ by Lina, a photographic installation highlighting constellations of thought.
Curatorial Statement:
Between our sky and the Earth lives a universe of light frequencies calmly captured by an alien eye. A typical viewer often doesn’t tap into this formula because the flashes of reality are too commonplace for bystanders without the lens, shutter, and extra-terrestrial sight. She’s perched on this planet, never wasting a moment, harnessing light as it finally reaches us after travelling vast distances. Time is too linear of a concept for Liz Nielsen; it’s inside of one dimension. She works with a time travelers’ vision collapsing non-linear histories and capturing multi-dimensional space.
Liz is caught here, recording her play land. An impulsive notion snaps images with an almost logic resulting in a prolific archive of chromogenic prints. Organizing them is a flight of an imagination for the energy between the works is the unifying force, not time, not color, not shape, nor form. Whether manipulating her subjects with flash and fill techniques or falling in love with the mystical in an ordinary object, Liz seizes the light. These documented spaces are snatched and presented. They are arresting the moment and planning for the future, which, in her mind was now and yesterday.
Liz states that her two most basic needs in life are “Art & Love” and she wonders whether the two can truly coexist. In this show, LIZ by Lina, she has requested her lover to curate her art. Here you have a very intimate collection of work and observations. Digitally imposed geometric forms haunt the images referring to psychic space that exists outside of physical space. It is her plot between all astronomical expanses and where matter doesn’t exist. She catches and traps time hoping to propel her viewer into a different universe.
Carolina Wheat
Liz Nielsen (American, born 1975, lives and works in Chicago, IL)
