Statement

This body of work is using the gaze of the camera lens to look at the landscape of two areas of one particular surface through different filters and with some subtle manipulation of parts of the surface. The surface feels enigmatic, and while it is literally superficial, it is still complex and speaks subtly to the process that made it what it is.

Artist Bio

Elif Soyer is a Turkish-American artist. She received a BA in Economics from Emory University in 1985, a studio diploma in 1995 and a MFA in 1997 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is also a fencing coach and co-owner of Moe Fencing Club in Somerville, MA where she trains Olympic hopefuls, weekend warriors and some of the top-ranked fencers in the US. Her work has oscillated between drawing on the interior landscape of the human body and the exterior landscape of her immediate environment, but has always had a very strong tie to time through layering or other seemingly obsessive processes. While she loves the process of painting and drawing, she has a very strong attraction to so-called "untraditional" mediums such as gravel, discarded textile, raw clay and scraps of day to day life.