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Fractions of Light and Time, 2005
Ilfochrome, aluminum, laminated
13.5" x 19" / panel
Each panel is unique. They can be purchased individually or
in sets.
Price upon request
Ilfochrome, aluminum, laminated
13.5" x 19" / panel
Each panel is unique. They can be purchased individually or
in sets.
Price upon request
Single panels.
Erika Blumenfeld received the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in the Creative Arts in 2008.
For additional information on the full scope of Blumenfeld's Polar Project, see: www.thepolarproject.com
For additional information on the full scope of Blumenfeld's Polar Project, see: www.thepolarproject.com
Light Recording: March Full Moon
(Moon of the Wind), 2004
Chromogenic Print, Aluminum Panel, Lexan
Laminate
Unique piece
48" x 84"
Price upon Request
This is an installation photograph. The subtle
gradation of colors is difficult to capture. The
work is luminous.
(Moon of the Wind), 2004
Chromogenic Print, Aluminum Panel, Lexan
Laminate
Unique piece
48" x 84"
Price upon Request
This is an installation photograph. The subtle
gradation of colors is difficult to capture. The
work is luminous.
Living Light No. 1 (Pyrocystis Fusiformis) 2001/2004
Pigment Ink Print
Image 16" x 44", sheet 24"x 60"
Edition: 15
$1500 unframed (subject to change)
Blumenfeld crated Living Light No.1 in 2001, when she was given
the opportunity to work at the bioluminescence research
laboratory at the Scripps Institution Of Oceanography in La
Jolla, California. Because Blumenfeld's work focuses on the
phenomenon of light, she sought to understand the nature of
the single-celled marine organisms known as Dinoflagellates,
which give off their own light.
The existence of Dinoflagellates in our oceans is unfortunately
in grave danger of disappearing as earth's waters continue to
become increasingly polluted.
Pigment Ink Print
Image 16" x 44", sheet 24"x 60"
Edition: 15
$1500 unframed (subject to change)
Blumenfeld crated Living Light No.1 in 2001, when she was given
the opportunity to work at the bioluminescence research
laboratory at the Scripps Institution Of Oceanography in La
Jolla, California. Because Blumenfeld's work focuses on the
phenomenon of light, she sought to understand the nature of
the single-celled marine organisms known as Dinoflagellates,
which give off their own light.
The existence of Dinoflagellates in our oceans is unfortunately
in grave danger of disappearing as earth's waters continue to
become increasingly polluted.
Lunation 1011, 2005
Pigment ink print
Image: 14" x 25 " / Paper 24" x 30"
Edition: 30
$850 unframed (subject to change)
In the fall of 2004, Blumenfeld went to Marfa, Texas as Ballroom Marfa’s inaugural artist-in-
residence and worked at the McDonald Observatory, in the Davis Mountains. During her
two-month stay, Blumenfeld created her first video work, titled Moving Light: Lunation 1011.
Lunation is defined as the mean time between two successive new moons, and the
corresponding lunation number is calculated beginning with the first new moon that
occurred in the year 1923. Her piece, titled 1011 for the actual lunation cycle she
documented, explores the waxing and waning of moonlight over a 30-day period,
documenting an entire lunar cycle from new moon to new moon.
Imaged through an altered telescope and self-built recording devices, Blumenfeld
documented the varying intensities of light radiating from the moon onto hand-held
photographic film. The images portray both the quantity of moonlight in its nightly phase
and the artists hand which moved slightly while holding each piece of film over the two-
minute exposures. The relationship between technology and the human implementing it is
expressed in the completed video installation, where each of the exposures taken over the
30 days were animated in sequence to produce a 4-minute moving account of the lunar
cycle. The viewer experiences the completed piece, which is the entire lunation cycle, as
shifting of light that slowly pulses, as if breathing, over time.
Lunation 1011 (30 Recordings) is a print edition based on the video installation Moving
Light: Lunation 1011. The piece operates like a calendar of the 30-day lunar cycle.
Pigment ink print
Image: 14" x 25 " / Paper 24" x 30"
Edition: 30
$850 unframed (subject to change)
In the fall of 2004, Blumenfeld went to Marfa, Texas as Ballroom Marfa’s inaugural artist-in-
residence and worked at the McDonald Observatory, in the Davis Mountains. During her
two-month stay, Blumenfeld created her first video work, titled Moving Light: Lunation 1011.
Lunation is defined as the mean time between two successive new moons, and the
corresponding lunation number is calculated beginning with the first new moon that
occurred in the year 1923. Her piece, titled 1011 for the actual lunation cycle she
documented, explores the waxing and waning of moonlight over a 30-day period,
documenting an entire lunar cycle from new moon to new moon.
Imaged through an altered telescope and self-built recording devices, Blumenfeld
documented the varying intensities of light radiating from the moon onto hand-held
photographic film. The images portray both the quantity of moonlight in its nightly phase
and the artists hand which moved slightly while holding each piece of film over the two-
minute exposures. The relationship between technology and the human implementing it is
expressed in the completed video installation, where each of the exposures taken over the
30 days were animated in sequence to produce a 4-minute moving account of the lunar
cycle. The viewer experiences the completed piece, which is the entire lunation cycle, as
shifting of light that slowly pulses, as if breathing, over time.
Lunation 1011 (30 Recordings) is a print edition based on the video installation Moving
Light: Lunation 1011. The piece operates like a calendar of the 30-day lunar cycle.
Erika Blumenfeld: Early Findings: Artifacts from the Polar Project, 2009
Erika is in the process of creating a new body of work that relates to her travel to Eastern Antarctica as the artist-in-residence
of ITASC (Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation) and SANAP (South African National Antarctic Program). Living and
working on the ice fields of Eastern Antarctica for four weeks, Blumenfeld initiated her ambitious environment-focused artwork,
The Polar Project, and created several new bodies of work including installations from her ongoing Light Recordings, as well as
new video pieces and photographs in a series titled Apparent Horizons. These new works focus on the distinct and sublime
phenomena of light, sky, and sound in Antarctica and aim to evoke a visceral experience of the wondrous and raw yet fragile
polar environment.