Legacy in Light
Legacy in Light
THE ART OF LESLEY SCHIFF
THE ART OF LESLEY SCHIFF
Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work offers her vision of the cycle of our existence: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics".
Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work offers her vision of the cycle of our existence: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics".
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PRESS
 PBS |  Vogue, Italia |  Maysles Documentary Center: Youth Media Festival |
|---|---|---|
 The Grey Art Gallery, NYU |  Rutgers Today |  Kinesis Magazine |
 The Flea Journal |  Bricolage: Pi Magazine |  Bricks Magazine |
 Pi Online |  Musée Magazine |  High Noon Gallery |
 British Journal of Photography |  Mana Contemporary |  Noteworthy |
 Newtown Theatre |  Ink Spill |
ESSAYS
The Hysterical Christ
F. Holland Day's
The Seven Last Words and
the Invention of Hysteria
The “Birth” of Photography:
Carmen Winant
and the Virtual Feminist Museum
You Weren't Supposed to See That
Notes on Face, Photography,
and Violence
The Strange Art and Surprising Politics of Madame Tussauds
A Photo Essay
POWER, PRESTIGE, POLYCHROMY
Color in imperial Roman sculpture
2019
IMMORTALITY AS CRAFT:
Images of age and death in Dornac's "Nos Contemporains Chez Eux" series (1887-1917)
2017
