Liz Nielsen
Thursday, 12 March 2026
Work from her Black & Whites.
“Liz Nielsen’s innovative practice upends the traditional method of analog photography. Working in the color darkroom, she exposes light sensitive paper and processes it through conventional photographic chemicals, creating light-paintings by way of camera-less photography. Her photographs are made without a camera and can also be described as light paintings. Replacing the traditional negative with hand cut collages comprised of different colored gels, Nielsen projects her forms on to chromogenic paper creating bright and luminous abstractions. As the paper she uses is a negative rather than a positive paper, the colors of the gels are reversed often creating surprising new combinations where Nielsen’s compositional control comes face to face with the magic of photographic chemistry. The analog color darkroom is a magical place where a pitch-black environment allows only the vision of the mind’s eye to prevail.” – Danziger Gallery