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Revision as of 15:41, 2 January 2025 by Jonathan Deamer (talk | contribs) (→Career: Expand from new Artnet source)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) American artist (born 1980)Elisheva Biernoff (born 1980) is an American artist.
Early life and education
Biernoff was born in Albuquerque in 1980. In 2002 she graduated from Yale. In 2007 she moved to San Francisco, and in 2009 received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts.
Career
Biernoff is known for her detailed painted recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, including photographic artefacts such as lens flare or overexposure, or physical details such as water damage to the photo paper. She started creating these paintings when she was asked to create an installation for a storefront window in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighbourhood of San Francisco in 2009. As she didn't know anyone in that area of the city, she asked local residents for any pictures of family members they could share, as a way to familiarize herself with the neighbourhood. Her first painted photograph reproductions were made from these images, and exhibited in the storefront as what she called a "community living-room wall".
So photorealistic are Biernoff's images that in 2015, artist Cynthia Daignault accidentally appropriated an image of a painting by Biernoff of a vintage postcard for her own project, The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter. Daignault found an image of the painting via Google image search, thinking it to be a photo of an actual postcard, and used it to promote her project, which involved painting landscapes from life on postcards. Diagnault immediately apologised, acknowledging the mistake via her newsletter the same day.
References
- ^ Als, Hilton (2024-10-18). "Elisheva Biernoff's Family of Man". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
- Kost, By Ryan (2017-06-12). "In detailed re-creations, an artist forges connections". SFGATE. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
- Porges, Maria (2024-12-01). "Elisheva Biernoff". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-12-20.
- Boucher, Brian (2015-03-10). "Cynthia Daignault Accidentally Stole Elisheva Biernoff's Painting". Artnet News. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
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