Elizabeth Siegfried
Nearly PERFECT
RedTail Gallery
Nearly Perfect
Elizabeth Siegfried’s new exhibition “Nearly Perfect” at Redtail Gallery.
What is considered beautiful is often imperfect or impermanent. Discarded, damaged, and neglected objects suggest the fleeting nature of all things and the passage of time, yet they all embody a unique form of beauty.
The Japanese have a phrase for this idea. They call it wabi sabi.
In Nearly Perfect, many images were taken in salvage yards, places where the objects hold their own memories—their individual pasts. Objects, some broken and all abandoned, become ambiguous and evocative. Some are combined with elements of nature that surround them, like growing vines or fallen leaves. Everything is shaped by time and the influence of nature, which creates its own kind of beauty.
RedTail Gallery
630 S Orange Ave #104
Sarasota, Florida
March 6th, 2026
5-8pm
About ELIZABETH Siegfried
Elizabeth “Betz” Siegfried
Elizabeth Siegfried was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and has lived and worked in Canada for over thirty years. She has a BA in English from Skidmore College and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Maine Media College.
Siegfried is known for her portraiture, meditative landscapes, and strong narratives, and her work has been exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, and Mexico. She taught platinum printing for 12 years at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto and has received numerous awards in the U.S. and Canada. Her photographs have been reproduced and discussed in such publications as Black & White Magazine, Shadow and Light Magazine, SHOTS magazine, and Camera Arts. In 2017, the CBC aired a video on her multi-generational collaboration called CIRCUS! Her first book, LifeLines, was published in 2000.
Siegfried’s work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan; the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; and the Peter E. Palmquest Women in Photography International Archive, held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Elizabeth presently works with digital capture and explores the expression of color, but has not lost her love of historical processes and analogue photography. She spends half the year on Oxtongue Lake and half the year in Sarasota, Florida.
