Flora, Fauna & Shimmering Worlds

Flora, Fauna & Shimmering Worlds

In these latest digital compositions, Schiff imagines dreamlike landscapes where fish drift through luminous, abstract waters and botanical forms dissolve into electrifying color fields. Resisting easy categorization, she aligns herself less with Pop citation than with older lineages—Hokusai’s sinewy line and Renaissance approaches to structure and light—now extended through contemporary tools. Schools of fish caught in aqueous luminescence, botanical forms suspended in saturated color: these are not photographs masquerading as paintings, but paintings accomplished through optical means. In every image, technique serves imagination, and imagination responds because technique knows how to listen.

A true pioneer of digital art, Schiff began experimenting with the photocopier in the late 20th century, transforming it from a mechanical device into a medium for painterly expression. Over the past four decades, she has established herself as a leading figure in digital image-making, with works presented in major cultural institutions across the United States and abroad.

This exhibition celebrates Schiff’s enduring vision and her ability to merge the organic with the technological, creating images that are at once radiant, unsettling, and profoundly contemporary.