Marten Elder’s new photographs on view at Tif Sigfrids in Hollywood are curious and lustrous images. Elder photographs mundane spatial configurations–driveways, lawns, planters–and through deft digital manipulation amplifies the ambient colors of each plane, creating surreal and iridescent chromatic combinations. The edits flatten the image, so cacti and dark garden shadows look like puddles of soap or oil slick. As Jeff Wall has said of Elder’s work, “[They] show us an existing factual world, the way photography has. But that world seen again, afresh, by new eyes, by new people wrapped up in their relation with new machines.”
Marten Elder: New Color Photographs is on view at Tif Sigfrids until April 25.
Tif Sigfrids
1507 Wilcox Ave.
Los Angeles, 90028
