Karin Elmers Second Hand Flowers are reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s Flowers. However, while Andy Warhol used a photo from an American magazine for his work, Karin Elmers discovered and photographed the four blossoms–exactly as they appeared in nature–creating unique original pieces from serial arrangements through clever color variations.

The initial photo which Karin Elmers took directly in front of her Florida home in 2016, shows fallen blossoms of the Pink Trumpet Tree on a meadow with Florida Snowflake blossoms. The photograph was enhanced through various digital processes on her computer. In these complex experimental processes, the artist developed 99 unique works from her original photograph:
ONE OF A KIND, NOT ONE OF MANY.

The sophisticated color variations make each one of the 99 Second Hand Flowers unique and one of a kind  – there is one of each artwork in these three sizes:
S:   16,7 x 16,7 inches     USD    900
M:  27,6 x 27,6 inches     USD 1.290
L:   35,4 x 35,4 inches     USD 1.800
Photo exposure  under 0,12 inches acrylic mounted on Alu-Dibond,  edges sanded.
The artwork is also available as NFT.

Biography

Karin Elmers lives in her native Hamburg and in Miami and has spent many years in Paris. During her training as a photographer, she attended evening classes at the Hamburg Art Academy and received a scholarship from the city of Hamburg at graduation. She assisted fashion photographer Charlotte March and then worked for several years at the international advertising agency Masius D’Arcy-McManus with a separate photo studio. This was followed by the founding of her own studio in Hamburg and numerous productions for the press and advertising in Germany and abroad, including the election campaign for Helmut Kohl in 1981/82 and campaigns for Gauloises and Nivea. Most recently, Karin Elmers’ photographic works have been on view at  Galerie St. Gertrude in Hamburg, the Armani/Silos in Milan, Galerie Crone in Berlin, the Horst Janssen Museum in Oldenburg and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.