Elke Solomon (April 10, 1943 – January 9, 2024) was an American artist, curator, educator and community worker.

She studied with Art Historians: Paul Grigaut, Nathan Whitman, Clifford Olds, Eileen Forsyth, Dick Seers, and Painting Department: Oleg Grabar.

For example, Tunafish Tales was performed in New York, NY (at the Mudd Club with Thom Fogarty ) and traveled to other cities in the U.S. Carrie Rickey reviewed this work in ARTFORUM (1979): ““Twentieth-century performance has found inspiration in dance, music, cabaret and theatre, but no one to my knowledge has ever before found inspiration in talk-show schtick.

An accomplished painter, draughtsperson, conceptual artist and curator, Solomon’s Tunafish Tales is a Catskills-cum-Vegas monologue with the outrageousness of Joan Rivers delivering an encyclical to a constituency including the pontiff, the ayatollah and Johnny Carson ...

[citation needed] In 2000, Solomon began cutting stencils of identifiable objects from Western culture.

Solomon, referring to her use of ‘dumb color,’ implied that she was not interested in making mannered, artfully composed paintings."

Starting with an image in the world, she modified it into an abstracted, non-representational shape by making numerous black and white preparatory studies.

[11] The book was reviewed by Barbara A. MacAdam for ARTnews, "The beauty is in the echoing of image and thing and in the implication that repetition may be both the staff and stuff of life ...