Raised in the Boston area, Erika Blumenfeld
(b. 1971) is an internationally exhibiting artist with a BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 1994 Blumenfeld moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where she has worked since. In 1998 Blumenfeld developed a process to reduce photography to its most essential ingredients: light and light-sensitive material. Without the use of a traditional camera, the artist exposes photographic paper and film to sun and moonlight so that a perfect gradation of light appears across the surface. The resulting images are recordings of light—minimalistic documentations of the light present at the exact moment the exposure was taken.

Blumenfeld's recent “Light Recording” installations have been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; The Ballroom in Marfa, Texas; the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico; DiverseWorks Art Space in Houston, Texas; the Galerie der Stadt Mainz-Brückenturm, Mainz, Germany; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) in Portland, Oregon; the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts. Her work has been featured in Art In America, ARTnews, Arté Contemporary, and Camera Arts magazines, and is included in The Polaroid Book published by Taschen. Blumenfeld was also The Ballroom Marfa's inaugural artist-in-residence, and was awarded a Special Editions Fellowship from the Lower East Side Printshop in New York.