BIO
Elizabeth Bick is a photographer and former dancer whose work explores movement and public space. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Fraenkel Gallery, Norton Museum and Ogden Museum. She has received awards and grants from the Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundations, and the Rudin Prize. She’s been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and TIME, with commissions from Public Art Fund, The Atlantic, and NYT Magazine. Elizabeth holds an MFA from Yale.
STATEMENT
After a childhood dedicated to training in dance, I discovered a choreographic voice through photography. I photograph urban facades that I position as stages and pedestrians as unconscious performers. I am particularly drawn to spaces and people that are naturally theatrical. The subjects are sharply frozen in the pictures through the use of a very fast shutter speed. Through this stilling, dress, body movement, and backdrop transcend the quotidian urban space into that of an operatic performance piece. I present many of the works in multiples, to decontextualize them, and in doing so, I reconsider the street as a site of performance of everyday urban life.
