Self Portrait Painting

ELISSA DORFMAN - Elissa Dorfman American, (born and raised in Brooklyn, New York) Currently lives in New York City. Elissa's paintings have been Sold to Collectors from Ireland, France, United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Holland, Saudi Arabia, Dubai United Arab Emirates, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Netherlands, Mexico, Greece. In the United States, Illinois, Oregon, Connecticut, California, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Maryland, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Washington, DC., Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Seattle, WA., Texas, Portland Maine, Michigan. Artist Statement - My main emphasis has been to create my own way of painting. I had the basics, but went into new areas by instinct. Description: From the early 1970's I developed my own style that I called Expansionism--everything I sense I expand (that certain something, hunch, instinct, thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs). The inner dynamics (the inner world) of the subject expand beyond its outward appearance, and into the environment (divine matrix, the field, nature's mind, mind of god, quantum hologram). Two places science got it wrong. 1. The space we believe is empty is really not. It is full of a living material, pulsating essence. 2. We may experience inside of our bodies that influence the world beyond through the conduit in this space. *** Note: Another aspect of "Expansionism" When you look at a glass on the table, what happens? The glass expands and is another way of seeing. Elissa is in many private collections throughout the world. She has a wide range of subjects, erotica, fantasy, humor, interiors, landscapes, moods, nature, patterns, people, places, and still life. Elissa's Artist File at The Getty Research Institute, Wilhelm Arntz Collection, Special Collections, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art MOMA Queens Artist File, Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library Artist File, "Library of Congress" Washington, D.C. Prints & Photographs. Elissa is a member of, Artist Equity, New York City, Visual Artists And Galleries Association, (VAGA) New York City, Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York City, Life Member Of Art Students League N.Y.C., The Society Of Arts Academy, United Kingdom Elissa Dorfman creates contemporary oil and watercolors paintings in abstract realistic and figurative style.