Description
Elaine Pearsons believes our lives are permeated
with color, even when our eyes our closed, listening to a concert, the
birds in a rose garden, or a toddler's giggle. "I want my images
to reflect the zest, the spirit, and the richness of life itself. This
desire eventually led me to an ebullient form of portraiture, utilizing
my unique treatment called point-o-graphy. These one-of-a-kind portraits
become 3-D facades as I photograph, cut out, and apply various key elements
of a person's life, loves, and memorabilia to create a feeling of dimension
and joy."
"Elaine has one of the most unusual
approaches to hand coloring we've come across. Rather than using oil
colors designed for photographs, she creates a pointillist fantasy with
jabs and squiggles from an armory of colored markers." |
-Modern Photography |
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"Elaine's not so much a photographer
as a multimedia artist a bit like such French Post Impressionists like
Seurat who invented pointillism and Pissaro who would try his hand
at anything. She works on photographs, transforming them with inks
and cut-outs. Her subjects may be houses and the things in them that
their owners treasure. All of which makes these enhanced photos as
a very modern version of the kind of group portraiture in which 18th
century English artists specialized." |
-The Boston Globe |
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Feline Point-O-Graphy Portrait |
Close-Up to Show Layers |
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Traditional photo of Norman Lear
and his wife Lyn |
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Elaine's Point-O-Graphy Portrait,
A New Lear |
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