Elissa Dorfman

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, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New Mexico.

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...

Exhibited at the Royal Castle, Warsaw, Poland. "FacingFaces," traveling exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Antwerp Belgium, Dunbar, South Africa, Fredericton, Canada, Mindanao, Philippines Elissa has held the post of Artist-in-residence at the University of Maryland. She has been published in 37 books such as, "The International Art Market Directory" Artprice, Paris. "A Personal Journal" Running Press, Who's Who In American Art" R.R. Bowker, Davenport's art reference, and many others. Smithsonion American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Libraries'Collections N.W. Washington, D.C.2001-2025 The Society of Arts Academy, UK 1999-2025 Women's Art Library Fulham Palace, Bishops Ave., London,UK1999-2025 Collections/Women Artists Archives, The Ruben Salazar Library Sonoma 1999-2025 State University, Rohnert Park, CA1996-2025 Member:Artist Equity1987-2025 Member: Archives on Women Artists, The Library and Research Center, Lifetime Member: Art Students League 1972-2025 Member: Artists Rights Society (ARS)2018 - 2025
3 Year Printmaking Study with Conover New School for Social Research 1976-1979 Parsons, (textile, illustration, silkscreen)1972 Pratt Graphics Center (lithographs)1970-1972 Education with John Hovannes and Isaac Soyer Ar...

Solo Exhibitions

2002 Galeria D'Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain,1982, Galler Fuji Osaka, Japan, 1982, Art Space Gallery Hyogo, Japan,1980 artist-in-residence) University of Maryland, 1979 Galerie Raymond Duncan Paris, France,1979 Collectors Gallery New York, NY 1979

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 - Postcards from The Edge Event, at host gallery
Berry Campbell Gallery, NYC
2024 - Postcards from The Edge Event, at host gallery
Berry Campbell Gallery, NYC
2023 - Postcards from The Edge Event, at host gallery
Ortuzar Projects in Tribeca
2020 - Postcards from The Edge Event, at host gallery Bortolami, NYC
2019 - Postcards from The Edge Event, at host gallery Bortolami, NYC
2018 - Postcards from The Edge Event, Gallery 524, New York, NY
2015-2016 The Conference Board, 845 Third Avenue, New York City
2014 Benefit For The Homeless, Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services Corporation, New York
2013 Postcards from The Edge Event, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
2013 Works On Paper, Hospital For Joint Diseases, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
2013 2nd Annual Summer Exhibition, Manhattan Borough President's Office, New York,
2012 Postcards From the Edge Benefit, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York,
2011 Postcards From the Edge ...