Elena Gorn
Elena Gorn
Elena Gorn (b. 1978) is a Russian-born visual artist based in Tel Aviv, Israel. With a background in graphic design and editorial direction, she transitioned to contemporary art after 15 years in the creative industry. Her work focuses on minimalist, material-based painting using a restrained palette of burnt sienna, black, and white, often combined with Mediterranean sand and dry pigments. Gorn explores silence, presence, and memory through texture and intuitive gesture, developing a unique visual language rooted in absence and emotional resonance. Her paintings resist narrative, inviting quiet reflection and engagement with the material surface. She maintains an active artistic practice, including pigment research and process documentation through her ongoing artist journal. In 2025, she was officially recognized as a professional artist in the field of plastic arts by the Israeli Ministry of Aliyah and Integration.
Recent Highlights
Hidden in One’s Own Shadow
A blue shadow figure hides the true self — warm, vulnerable, nearly erased. The work reflects on internal barriers, false identities, and roles we mistake for who we are. 2025, Acrylic & Sand on Canvas, 25×25 cm. Exhibited in Contrast! Issue 4 (UK)....
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The Listener
A faceless figure gazes at a distant house under a dark sky — a quiet symbol of the emotional “home” within. “The Listener” invites stillness and reflection. 2025, Acrylic & Sand on Canvas, 50×50 cm. Exhibited in Contrast! Issue 4 (UK)....
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Fragments of Gold and Silence
“Fragments of Gold and Silence” maps inner landscapes through layered abstraction. Gilded surfaces disrupt deep tones, evoking memory, absence, and the sacred. A dialogue unfolds between texture and emotion, brilliance and void....
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No Face, No Time
A faceless torso, textured with bold knife strokes, evokes a broken Venus reimagined in black and white. The work contrasts presence and absence, memory and erasure — where classical form meets raw, expressive force....
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Girl with a Pearl Earring, 2025
A minimalist take on “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” this textured work in sienna, black, and white merges past and present. The faceless figure breaks the frame — a bold gesture of abstraction, with the pearl as its quiet anchor....
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What the Field Remembers (Diptych)
This diptych explores the line between memory and disappearance. Silhouettes rise and fall in silence, suspended between bloom and collapse. Built with sand, sienna, and black, the work reflects on trauma and remembrance through texture and restraint...
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Vestige (Architecture of Memory)
“Vestige” evokes the emotional trace of abandoned spaces. Using plaster, acrylic, and textured gesso, the work captures faded walls and eroded facades — a tactile memory of structures worn by time, suspended between fragility and permanence....
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Solar Residue (Architecture of Memory)
“Solar Residue” traces the decay of modernist form under time and light. Sienna washes over fading geometry, echoing sun-scorched walls. The work reflects on erosion, memory, and the afterglow of architecture losing shape but holding presence....
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The Path We Walk
“The Path We Walk” reflects on how we move through life — step by step, between light and darkness. It is a portrait of perseverance and presence — the moments that illuminate us as we go....
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Traces and Pigments
An architectural spread in an artbook, exploring the visual language of Tel Aviv — from Brutalist landmarks and Modernist towers to contemporary parametric forms....
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