Artist Statement

The daily, almost banal encounter between large scale industrial construction taking over the urban landscape and the strap of diluted nature in the rim, between what feels like a hostile, alien invader and that who is perceived as primal and even wild is the source of inspiration to my works. The stored pressure amidst these two forces creates a hypnotizing and powerful experience that breaks into shapes, lines and spots that become the material from which my ‘language of painting’ builds and develops. This language is first and foremost driven by the passion for the material, colour and texture. The beginning of the painting process is by breaking down the simile to its components. From those a new construction as a grid that organizes the painting area. The original structure remains only as a trace – a bare skeleton, into which figurative and abstract elements penetrate, echoing the memory of the local landscape that was the inspiration for the works.

In other series a process of liberation from the stiff rule of the grid as the factor which organizes the surface transpires. This move is an attempt to express the experience of viewing the scenery as a sensuous and emotional moment, to generate it onto the platform through diverse pictorial gestures; Lone spots of colour, erupting, circling lines, a shift between lucidity and obtuseness, deliberate expunction and more…

Likewise, the attention to the the place and the ‘Israeli Light’ is often examined in the works, moving between the metaphoric to the real, invading into the framework and the substances nourishing it. In the last two series, created in 2021, “Sunflowers” and “the way to Be’er Sheva”, the pursuit of the concepts light and space becomes excessive. The image of the sunflower embodies both, the painting is made with oil paint on parchment paper, a silent conflict occurs upon the fragile paper, between the oil paint in hues of yellow/brown/ochre and the transparent paper, between the physical and metaphysical, the sunlight slowly scathes the flower, the image, which in itself echoes the sun, the painting, the paper, the soul, the past and present, perhaps this is a sort of gentle, slow, personal, universal conflict that, among other things, refers to the tradition of local and international painting.

Even in the last series “The way to Be’er Sheva” the Israeli place and light occur, the same ‘sun’, ‘desert’, existential shade, which the farther you go, takes over the sights of the road, integrates into the scenery and becomes an inherent part of the questions dealing with identity and place

Sunflower

Selected group exhibitions

2023 Lilach Nights, Municipal Gallery, Hod-Hsharon, curator: Nava Sebillia Sade.
2022 Fantasy on Urban Matter, Contenporary Gallery 51, Modi’in, Israel. Curator: Nava Sebillia Sade.
2022 What is a City’s Heart? Municipal Art Gallery, Kfar-Saba, Israel. Curator: Hagar Raban.
2022 Double Space, Gallery Yad-Lebanim, Rehovot Israel, Curator: Yael Sonnino Levy.
2021 The For Seasons, Gallery of Yavne, Yavne Israel. Curator: Dalia Danon.
2020 Birds, Municipal Gallery of Givat’im, Curator: Irit Levin.
2019 The Nature Of Still Life, Sara Erman Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Lea Topper.
2017 Painting Landscapes, Tel-Aviv Artist House. Curator: Ruth Markus, Ruthy Chinsky.
2017 Homeland Studies, Gallery of Yavne, Yavne Israel. Curator: Ronny Reuven.
2015 Gathering +, Ilana Goor Museum, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Sophia Dekel-caspi.
2015 9 artists x 9 walls, Artspace Tel-Aviv. Curator: Nir Harmat.
2015 Change, Sara Arman Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Tova Eldad.
2015 Women soldiers, Petach-Tikva museum,. Curator: Sigal krinski.
2014 Paintings forever, Hayarkon 96, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Sari Golan.
2013 Demilitarized Area, Central Station Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Curator: Doron Furman.
2011 Fresh Paint 04, The Israeli Art Fair, with Mika Gallery, Tel Aviv.
2010 Matter as Matter, Kfar Saba Artists’ Association. Curator: Shuki Ezra.
2010 Be My Guest, Diagilev Hotel, Tel Aviv. Curator: Keren Bar-Gil.
2010 Out of the Box, Design Space, Tel Aviv. Curator: Keren Bar-Gil.
2009 Fresh Paint 02, The Israeli Art Fair, Tel Aviv.
2008 Model Apartment, Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Keren Bar-Gil.
2008 Fresh Paint 01, The Israeli Art Fair, Tel Aviv.
2008 Upstream, Avidan Winery, Kibbutz Eyal.

Selected collections

Bank Leumi, Gaby and Ami Brown, architect Ada Carmi, Lotan Teitler, Chaim Stanger, Relly and Nurit Leshem, Rozenheimer family, Yifat Gurion, Uri Brandes, Carlton Hotel Tel Aviv, Siemens Israel, Herzog Fox and Neeman and other private collections.

Exhibitions

The Artist at Work
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Soldier
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Thisles
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Road Marks
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