Interdimensional Timelines: Hartford Art School Exhibits Liz Nielsen’s Photograms

Interdimensional Timelines: Hartford Art School Exhibits Liz Nielsen’s Photograms

In researching light, Liz Nielsen creates a dialogue between art and science as a core element of her practice. As she explores the intersection of these two worlds, boundaries blur and new possibilities emerge. To record colored light, Nielsen must make work in a pitch-black environment. Tiny bits of light are emitted systematically, making several to hundreds of exposures onto sheets of light-sensitive film. The latent images are then processe…