Elke Solomon

I am an abstract painter. In 2000, I began using abstracted stencil images of identifiable objects from Western culture. I write and perform in solo/group performances. My challenge is to enlarge the scale of the work to a public scale and to tell a disjunctive narrative in order to provoke viewers to slow down and look. And, become aware too of various social issues: e.g. food as culture; anti-semitism; history. A large part of my practice has been as an educator teaching at major universities in the U.S.