BIO

Arlene Shulman is a photographer and sculptor living in New Jersey. Arlene’s main body of work explores the connection between photography and found objects. She has had pieces in the Phillips Mill Photography Show and in the Hunterdon Museum. She has also exhibited in Provincetown on Cape Cod.

She was especially gifted with four, One-Woman shows in New Jersey providing an opportunity to fill four rooms with works based on a single theme.  

The first, “Transparent Locations,” explored photographic portraiture within the context of found object constructions.

The second, “Hidden Exposures,” explored the nude in photographs, found object sculptures and instillations.

Her third show of abstract photographs grew out of a response to an illness which temporarily limited her physical abilities. These limitations which necessitated working in a very small, close up environment, actually opened anew world of possibilities where the artist began to use the camera as a paint brush.

Her fourth show was a retrospective called “A Way of Seeing” which provided a wonderful cacophony of her previous work.

Arlene is now focused on working with tiny sculptural figures which focus on the plight of raped and abused women across the world. This is return to a format she used many years ago in a more whimsical fashion.

email: arlena23@me.com