Elijah Kauffman

Artistellar is pleased to present Thinking of You, Elijah Kauffman’s first UK solo show comprising of their most recent paintings. The exhibition comes together to investigate the diverse relationships among Elijah’s subject matters. The subjects depicted inhabit the canvas and the artist’s reality and inform the audience’s responsiveness - they are evocative and seemingly ordinary snapshots. Kaufmann’s figurative paintings interlace an attentive eye on society with a desire to represent what it is, implicitly and explicitly.

Thinking of You features small and medium-scale paintings, highly expressive and filled with hinted meanings, often allowing for ambiguity and prompting the viewer to develop a personal story. Elijah Kaufmann create mostly from interpretations of stills taken from movies, episodes, and daily inspiration. All that exists in their practice has a timeline, yet, the viewer is welcome to play around while wandering Artistellar’s gallery space, rearranging the linearity of time and exploring different purposes of given events.

The show presents the audience with a broader metaphor for life, where reality is never univocal but subjective - as truth is often a case of perception.

Born in Salt Lake City and living in Providence, Rhode Island, Elijah Kaufmann (b. 1998) joined Matt Kolansky artists collective “Art Kollective" last year. Elijah received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Despite enjoying all sorts of fine arts, Elijah considers painting as the proper medium to express their emotionally charged thoughts and give life to their intrinsic world.