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Media coverage and reviews.
January 2024: LightSaceTime Solo Show upcoming
Elaine Franz Witten won first place in the online international solo show competition at lightspacetime.art. Her solo show on the website will be featured April 15 - May 14, 2024 in their Annual Solo Show series. There will also be a YouTube video presenting her bronze sculpture. Date to be announced.
May 2023: Sanctuary
Elaine Franz Witten was selected as the “featured artist” for May, 2023 in the online international magazine, Sanctuary. Each month executive editor Myrna Beth Haskell choses a woman from various fields of the humanities whose work she wishes to highlight. This month Elaine's work as a bronze sculptor is her focus in an article entitled The Intricacies of Sculpture in Motion. Nine of her bronzes are pictured throughout the interview. It is an honor to have been selected for this extensive feature.
April 2020: ArtTour International magazine
Elaine Witten’s bronze sculpture The Wild Run was selected for inclusion in the Spring 2020 “Sacred Waters” issue of ArtTour International magazine. This is a special ocean conservation issue that launched in bookstores at the end of April.
In addition, The Wild Run is also included in a half-hour documentary Sacred Waters The Cry of the Ocean by Alan Grimandi, past winner of Best Documentary in N.Y. Film Awards. His new documentary premiered in June 2020 in N.Y.C.
April 2019: Spotlight Contemporary Magazine
Circle Foundation for the Arts
Lyon, France
By Invitation: Elaine Franz Witten's bronze sculpture Extended Bow was included in the April, 2019 edition.
“Featured Artist 2018” – Manhattan Arts International, NYC.
February 2018 – Selected as a Featured Artist by ArtsyShark.com
Essay by Renée Phillips of Manhattan Arts International
“Elaine Franz Witten’s Sculpture Captures Majestic, Timeless Beauty.”
Renee Phillips, founder and director of Manhattan Arts International, has written an essay about my work. I am most appreciative of her insights into my use of negative space and the energy it adds to a piece of sculpture. In it, she says some wonderful things, such as:
“In Witten’s hands, the human form is not only revered but is elevated to sublime visual poetry and inspiration.” and “Elaine Franz Witten occupies a very small coterie of artists who have the talent and discipline to awaken timeless beauty and express fluidity in bronze.”
Review by Louis Torres of Ariostos
National Sculpture Society’s “Wings of Hope, Wings of Peace”
The Doves were included in the National Sculpture Society Exhibition “Wings of Hope, Wings of Peace.” This large, impressive and hopeful show was reviewed by Louis Torres who said the following in the conclusion of a long write-up about the whole exhibition:
“I save for last mention Elaine Franz Witten’s Doves (titled The Mourners in the exhibition)—the work that touched me most, the one among all that I would wish to own. There is no drama here—no posing, no dancing or fishing or flight, no death—just two mourning doves, each atop its own mahogany pedestal (one slightly higher), looking at one another. Witten’s comments on the work are as apt as the simple title she gave it: ‘The mourning dove has a beautiful and simple silhouette, pure form and long tail. I emphasized these elements minimizing detail in the design of this small sculpture. I chose a pair since this is how they are invariably seen in nature.’ “
Louis Torres
Founding Editor
Aristos (online review of the arts)
You may read the entire review at: aristos.org