Christine Elfman is an artist based in San Francisco whose work combines photography, painting, textiles, and film to explore the relationship between transience and conservation. From the Philadelphia area, Elfman received her MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts in 2012. After receiving her BFA in Painting from Cornell University in 2004, she lived in Rochester, NY while using 19th century photographic processes in her skylight studio. While there, she worked as an intern for collodion photographer France Scully Osterman, at the George Eastman House, and the Rare Books Libary at the University of Rochester. Elfman has been awarded The San Francisco Foundation Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, CCA Graduate Merit Scholarship, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists Career Development Fellowship, a residency at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY, and the Faculty Medal of Art from the Cornell Art Department. Her work has been exhibited nationally.
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