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Adi Ashkenazi


Catalog #1

Adi Ashkenazi



Dense Dance
24 x 24 inch

About the Artist: Adi was born in Tel-Aviv Israel, in 1969. And was raised in Reshion Le Zion and Kfar Gybton, Where he was attended elementary school. He received his high school education at the "Open High School", and served in the Israeli Defense Force. After the army Adi was traveling the world spending time exploring places and cultures. In 1995 Adi opened a Laser Show Production company in Israel creating a unique art presentation and animation with 3D at real time. Adi moved to New York and attend at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) for his BA degree, he also studied at the School of Visual Art (SVA). Currently, Adi is photographing and creating his digital Art in the USA, & internationally.

Adi Brande




Catalog #2

Adi Brande
2007
Edition 1/5


About the Artist:
Adi Brande was born in Israel in1975 and currently lives and works in Tel-Aviv. Studied Photography in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, department of Photography, (B.F.A). Solo exhibitions: Tel-Aviv artists' studios "3657 meter" (2007). Kir Oman Gallery Tel-Aviv, "Moment to the Night" (2006). NOGA Gallery of Contemporary Art Tel-Aviv - Project room, “030” (catalog, 2003). Selected recent Group exhibitions: Ha'kibbutz Israeli Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv, "Desert Generation" (2007). The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Ruth Youth Wing "Water in Art and Life" (2007) and took part in the following projects: "The Box" portfolio 2007, Block magazine - "Tel-Aviv culture hall" (2007), 030 Urban Landscape BERLIN (2002) and, TAMAR - the myth of Zionist female (2001).

Aliza Olmert


Catalog #3

Aliza Olmert
Courtesy of The Schwimmer Collection

About the Artist: Aliza Olmert is an Israeli artist, photographer, author and social worker. Aliza Olmert was born in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany. Her parents were Holocaust survivors from Łódź. She grew up in Ramat Gan and served as a topographer and platoon commander in the Israel Defense Forces.[She met her husband, Ehud Olmert, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she was studying social work. In 1985-1988, Olmert studied environmental design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. In Israel, Olmert has exhibited at the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem, the Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan, the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv and the Tel Aviv Artists' House. Her work has also been exhibited in Japan, Uruguay, Italy, Britain, Poland, Argentina and New York. In March 2008, she was awarded the Steiger Prize in Germany.

Amihai Melki


Catalog #4

Amihai Melki
Unititled
2005
50 x 50 cm
Digital Print on Fine Art Paper, from the series "Ashdod South", Edition 2/3


About the Artist: Amihai Melki was born in Israel in 1973. His latest Solo Exhibitions include: "Après" – D&A Gallery (Tel Aviv – 2009); "A part | Tenir" – Hagalleria Gallery (Paris – 2008); ”Frustration, Tel Aviv by Night, Ashdod south” – Nogatsch Fine Art Gallery (Strasbourg – 2007)
www.amihaimelki.com

Anat Litwin

Catalog #6

Anat Litwin

Popsicle Position (Skin Series)
2009

19 x 19 inch
Paper and artificial skins
About the Artwork: This piece is part of the Popsicle Position series. It indicates a primal aspect of human behavior within a twilight zone that is both naïve, sensual, manipulative and aggressive.  The series explores the correspondence with the "other", the attempt to define the boundaries of self and lose them, and the discovery of both beauty and danger that lies within these raw ambiguous situations.  Education of youth often has a critical role in the process of sublimation of rage and desire into cultural and social codes. Art often deals in contrary with the undoing. The Elem Benefit is situated within this axis as a way to bridge these two worlds, and therefore I found the donation of this piece relevant.
 About the Artist: Anat Litwin is an Israeli American Artist and Curator based in Brooklyn, working in the medium of paper cut-out's, drawings, installation and public art. Litwin received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, in 2001, and her MFA in 2005 from Hunter College in NY, Department of Combined Media. She received the Keren Sharet award for outstanding artists in 2001, and has exhibited her work in Italy, Albania, Israel and New York. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the HomeBase Project. www.homebaseproject.com  and senior LABA artist and Consultant at the 14th Street Y. She is currently focusing on her  first book of stories and paper cut out's titled "ANATOMY". more news can be found on her website www.anatlitwin.com
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Amir Nave


Catalog #5

Amir Nave


www.AmirNave.com

About the Artist: Solo Exhibitions include:  “how much place does a person need” contemporary art space florentin 45 (2009); ”Remove Before Flight,” The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan (2008); ”Do You Know How to Fly” Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2006).  Latest group exhibitions include: Gordon gallery, Benno  Kaiev Collection (2009);  Degeneiate  art,  Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv (2009); ‘fresh paint’ contemporary art fair (2009); Ashdod Museum of Art - Monart Centre (2009).

Ariel Asahow

 
Catalog #7

Ariel Asahow
Courtesy of The Rivka Shabtai Collection
"Off" (Chicken)
1990
25 x 30 cm
Oil on wood

Aviv Naveh

 

Catalog #8

Aviv Naveh

The Beach
2004
Edition 2/10

About the Artist: Aviv Naveh is a film and video cinematographer.  He teaches Still Photography at the “Mor” High School in Ra’anana, Israel while working towards an MFA in Cinema at Tel Aviv University.  This year, he won the Sotheby’s “Hammers Choice Prize” for ‘Sinai’ (2007) and received a grant form the Cinemateque for his short movie “370 Meters” which was shown on Israel’s Channel 8.

Boaz Vaadia


Boaz Vaadia

Catalog #32

Rebecca 2002
Plaster, #2 A/P Edition of 9 + 3 A/P
9.5 x 10 x 9 inches

http://www.vaadia.com/

Boaz Vaadia is an internationally recognized sculptor that has been working in New York City for over 30 years. Vaadia’s work is sited in various pubic locations, such as the Time Warner Center, NYC, and included in many museums and private collections throughout the world, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, MOMA, San Francisco, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Japan, and The Israel Museum, Jeruselum. Vaadia says of his work, “I work with nature as a equal partner, that’s still the strongest thing I deal with today, that primal connection of man to earth. It’s in the material I use, the environments I make and the way I work.”

"Rebecca” is a plaster cast portrait of my oldest daughter, Rebecca, and it served as a study for a small and a large stone sculpture. Donating this sculpture of my daughter to Elem made sense to me as it is an organization that benefits youth in Israel.

Carmel Ilan


Catalog #9

Carmel Ilan
Courtesy of the Artist and Raw Art Gallery
"Dmut" (Character)
2008
58 x 45 cm
Folded Paper on Panel

About the Artwork: My western wall - I grew up in Jerusalem, a place where people fold their prayers onto little pieces of paper and stick them in a stone wall. This image is embedded in me. The big stone wall, bursting of little folded notes. Hopes, requests, and prayers,

Dafna Shalom



Catalog #10

Dafna Shalom

Reef, Jaffa, #13, AP
2004-2008
60x60 cm


About the Artist: Dafna Shalom studied at the International Center for Photography and graduated from Hunter College with a degree in fine arts. She assisted on various contemporary art projects for the multimedia artist Oliver Herring and for the Public Art fund in New York. Using both photography and video, Shalom's works open questions on corporal fragility, the politics of identity, randomness and dislocation. She has exhibited at venues such as Minnesota Center for Photography, USA, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary art, USA, Petach Tikva Museum, Israel, Ein-Harod Art Center, Israel, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv and more. Shalom divides her time between New York and Tel Aviv and is part of a dynamic group of artists, film makers and intellectuals of Arab decent (mizrahim) that explore their hybrid Jewish-Arab identity and act for solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Shalom also teaches photography, works as a graphic designer and was a photographer for the newspaper Haaretz in NY until 2005.

Dana Landau

Catalog #11

Dana Landau

Untitled
2002
10 x 10 inch
A/P, C Print


About the Artwork: snowy mountain range / white bedspread.

Dana Yoeli


Catalog #12

Dana Yoeli

Untitled, (Heidi's Grandfather)
2009
21/28 cm
Graphite on paper

About the Artist: Born 1979, Dana Yoeli lives and works in Tel Aviv.  She received both her BFA and MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.  Her latest exhibitions include: Maximalism, Avni Institute of Fine Art, Art TLV, Tel-Aviv (2009); Makirim, Shay Arye Gallery, Tel-Aviv (2009); Degenerate Art, Dan Gallery, Tel-Aviv (2009); MOBY Factory, with Yonatan Shilo, Bat-Yam industrial area the Bat Yam museum of art (2009).

Daniella Yovel



Catalog #13

Daniella Yovel
Lost Childhood
2003
11 x 11 inch

About the Artwork: This piece is part of an intaglio print series which explores the meaning of home and childhood. My personal memories and attachment to a constantly changing physical environment as a child. Through color (or rather lack of it) and shape, the work is infused with an isolated yet playful mood. Memories can be sad and beautiful at the same time, but one must find home within themselves.

About the Artist: Daniella was born in Israel, in 1975, and was raised as a hybrid product of an Israeli/American childhood. Specializing in prints, drawings and paintings - she received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and her MFA from the University of Cincinnati. Her work explores intimately mysterious worlds and awkward characters. To learn more please visit www.daniellayovel.com
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David Adika


Catalog #14

David Adika
Courtesy of The Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
Untitled
2007
67 x 50 cm
From a series shot in Barcelona

About the Artist: David Adika was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1970.  He teaches at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and Shenkar College of Design in Tel Aviv, where he lives and works. His Upcoming Solo Exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum in 2010, will be curated by Hadas Maor.


Drew Simpson






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Catalog #15

Drew Simpson
Courtesy of Igal Ahouvi
Untitled (number 31) & Untiltled (number 35)
2006
26 x 13 cm
Oil on Masonite


About the Artist: Born in Milton, Ontario  in 1977, Drew Simpson is a painter who lives and works in Canada.

Dror Daum


Catalog #16


Dror Daum
From the series “Paper Works”
2008
44 x 26 cm
Color Print on Baryt Paper; Edition of 10 Prints + 1AP


About the Artwork: The Paper Works series of photographs describe the notion of "fear". This photograph depicts an open vampire mouth, with drops dripping from it. In fact, these works are a reflection of covers of Horror and Thriller genre pulp fiction books.
About the Artist: I tend to think the term "troubled youth" deals with general problems and circumstances that prevent integration, or a normative future in our society. Many youths suffer hardships; establish patterns of fear, and of failure. Feelings of fear often motivate us to perform violently or abnormally, but these are only the symptoms. I find the first stage in fear, is not be afraid to be afraid; to understand that it is allowed.

Dror Karta

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Catalog #17

Dror Karta




About the Artist: Dror Karta was born in Netanya, Israel in 1965.  In 1985, he was wounded during military service.  He studied graphic design in "Hadasa-vizo Canada college of design" Haifa, Israel.

Eyal Radwinowitz



Catalog #18

Eyal Radwinowitz
Courtesy of Bank Discount




www.galleryero.com

Gad Dagon


Catalog #19


Gad Dagon

About the Artist: Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1957, Gad lives and works in Israel. Freelance photographer for "Yediot Ahchronot" and "Ma'ariv". Home Photographer of "The Bat Sheva Company", "The Israeli Opera", "The Jerusalem Hann Theater", "Gesher Theater" and "Hertzelia Ensemble". Works regularly with "Suzanne Dalall Center","The Camery Theater", "Weitzman Institute of Science" and with leading advertising agencies in Israel: BBR Saatchi & Saatchi, Shalmor Avnon Amichai Y&R, McCann Kesher Bareel, Adler Chomsky & Warshavsky Grey.

Idit Riechner



Catalog #20

Idit Riechner

Untitled
2003
30 x 120 cm
Printed on Plexiglass, From the series "In the Bubble"

Itzik Badash


Catalog #21

Itzik Badash
Edition 1/5


About the Artwork: "Diwani" is the first solo exhibition of Itzik Badash. In Arabic "Diwan" means both a "collection of songs" and a "salon for entertaining guests", two concepts that together comprise of the public space in which the artist's cultural-religious event takes place. In addition, the word also refers to anthologies of poems, odes and lamentations written by the Jewish poets of Spain. www.diwani.co.il

Judith Matzkel





Catalog #22

Judith Matzkel Untitled 2009
Color Photogram

About the Artwork: This work was created especially with the children who have not in mind. The wooden horse is made of origami folded paper and as such seems like a dream.

About the Artist: Born in Romania in 1951, Judith Matzkel lives and works in Kfar Aharon, Israel.  Selected Solo Exhibitions: "The Primal Scream" ' Sadnot Haomanim, Tel Aviv. (2008); "Half a Dunam," The Artists House, Tel Aviv (2006) ; "The Tree of Knowledge," Ein Harod Art Museum (2005).

Karen Gillerman-Harel


Catalog #23

Karen Gillerman-Harel
Past & Future in our Hands
2008
19.6 X 27.5 inch
Photograph, Limited Edition: High Quality unframed print, Signed and numbered 10/36

About the Artwork: Because the first major intake of immigrants was of refugees who were Holocaust survivors, Gillerman-Harel sought to connect the generation of the Holocaust with the generation of future adults who are native-born citizens of Israel. With an extraordinary blend of sensitivity and symbolism she succeeded in bridging the past with the future through the arms of Polish-born Auschwitz survivor Dora Dreiblat, born in 1922, and her great granddaughter Daniela Har-Zvi, born in 2007 in Israel. The infant's hand, stretched out towards the number on her great grandmother's arm, links the future, the present and the past over the flag of Israel, making the photograph a compelling historical document.

About the Artist: Karen Gillerman-Harel, who is a professional photographer, is the prize-winning photographer in a contest co-sponsored by Bank Hapoalim and Yediot Aharonot to give artistic expression to the flag of Israel in honor of the 60th anniversary of the nation's independence. Born in Israel in 1970, Gillerman-Harel has worked in public relations, for ABC News, MTV Europe and various organizations and institutions in the field of PR & Advertising. She had the passion to Photography since childhood, and her camera is part of her persona. It goes where she goes, and has done for most of her life. Even though she had been photographing for years, she felt the need for formal study in photography and gained added knowledge at Goldsmith's College, University of London and at the New York School of Visual Arts. She has had numerous photographic successes and has exhibited in Israel and the US, but nothing she has previously photographed was more meaningful to her than the photo that won the flag contest, copies of which she presented not only to Dreiblat's family but also to President Shimon Peres , Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev and the Tel Aviv Museum. www.loveofisrael.com

Leor Grady




Catalog #24

Leor Grady

Untitled (king)
2009
11 x 15 inch
Glitter on paper
About the Artist: Leor Grady is an Israeli-born visual artist and an independent curator, working and living in NY. His work has been shown in the US and abroad, among others, Everybody In at Rush Arts Gallery, Homomuseum at Exit Art Gallery in New York City, Fashion Show at The B.K. Smith Gallery in Cleveland and The Home Base project – a site responsive annual project in NYC. Leor served on the faculty of The Makor/Steinhardt Artists-In- Residence Program of the 92nd St Y in 2006-7 where he created, taught and curated several projects. His work navigates within the realm of the intimate and the private. It negotiates between the two, leading to a visual exploration of the poetic in the mundane. Interdisciplinary in nature, and site specific in content, Leor’s works explore themes of home, territory and identity. Through drawing, installation and video art, Grady subversively reposition everyday objects, concepts and experiences and imbues them with poetic meaning.

Lilach Shahar


Catalog #25
Lilach Shahar

Self portrait -Puddle
2008
Pantone markers & Ink on paper

About the Artist: Born in 1974, Lilach Shahar lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her latest Exhibitions include: Barbur Gallery at Supermarket Art Fair , Stockholm , Sweden (2009); Day and Night - Gilit Fischer , Tel Aviv (2008); All the shades between black & white - Gilit Fischer , Tel Aviv (2007) and Skin & Bones - Ilka Bree Gallery , Bordeaux , France (2007).

Lior Ben Nissan








Catalog #26
Lior Ben Nissan
Carousel

About the Artwork: In Greek, Nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship; it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the Wheel. It’s called the Carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Around and around and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved. ("Mad Men" Season 1, Episode 13, "The Wheel")

Lior Ben-Nissan (1984) is a senior student at Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. Lives and works in Tel-Aviv. This specific photograph was made during a student exchange program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA, and was photographed in WV.

Maya Zack



Catalog #27 

Maya Zack
Milky Way
2009

About the Artist: Maya Zack was born in 1976 and works in Tel Aviv as and Artist and Filmmaker. She has studied and now lectures at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film & Television as well at Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Her latest video work “Mother Economy” won the Berlin Celeste Kunstpreis, Berlin, Art prize in Artist category award and other prizes in film festivals in Hungary, Italy and the Ukrain. She has also won The Young Artist Award, The Ministry of Education and Culture 2005 and received various Grants. Maya recieved her B.F.A with Honors from Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Fine Art Department, Jerusalem. Later she took part in the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Student Exchange Program. Zack is also a lecturer at Tel Aviv University Department of Film & Television, and in Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Selected solo and group exhibitions include: Israel museum of Art, Jerusalem (2009), Invideo, Milan Italy (2008) Artneuland Gallery Berlin (2007), Guanacju Biannale, Korea (2002) and Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2001).

Michal Cole



Catalog # 28
Michal Cole
Forever 6 & 7
2009
15 x 15 cm each
From the  "Forever" Series

About the Artwork: Forever is a series of tattoo paintings focusing on different body parts.  This is a personal voyage into my dark past growing up in the city of Rishon Le Zion in the 8os when I discovered heavy metal music while in my rebellion early teenager stage. I drove and formed the “heavy metal group”. The situation was explosive and the media exploitation of the phenomenon contributed to fuelling a major international investigation and exploration by governmental bodies including the police. Admittedly we have caused harmless havoc, but the journey was one to stay with me forever.  Tattoos where an inseparable part of the theme and I have developed a passion for it since the tender age of 12 and indeed acquired some through the years.  “Forever” not just symbolises the eternity and the permanent marking of a body, but also a state of mind and the attachment to the naivety and beauty of becoming and forming as a person.  The discovery and exploration of the ever changing and aging of the body and the ability to re-form it with colour and image are captured in this series while using the more conservative method of oil on canvas/wood, thus, creating a conceptual bridge between the traditional and the contemporary.

Michal Rubin

Catalog #29


Michal Rubin
A Child's room
UK 2004
11" by 17"
AP
Michal Rubin was born in Tel Aviv in 1977. At 17, Rubin moved to NYC and started documenting her life through photography. She received her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2002 and has since continued following her friends and capturing “emotional landscapes” that she encounters throughout her travels. Her work has been featured in W magazine, The Independent Magazine, V magazine, New York magazine, O, Casa Da Abitare, Blackbook, Paper, Gravure & in the New York Times blog. Exhibitions include Gallery 39, Fresh Paint and The Rubin Museum in Tel Aviv; Jerwood Space, Bridge art fair, London; Andrea Meislin Gallery, SVA Gallery, National Arts Club and Zero in New York City; Update photography salon - finalist in the screenings awards, Berlin. She has also created specially commissioned canvas prints for permanent display at the new Ben Gurion airport VIP lounge and Dan Hotels, Israel. Michal currently resides and works in New York City. www.michalrubin.com

Moshe Kupferman



Catalog #30

Moshe Kupferman
Courtesy of The Brandes Collection
Untitled
2009
50 x 65 cm
Print, Edition 44/128

About the Artist: Born in Poland in 1926, Moshe Kupferman first began to draw in 1947 after seeing the Renaissance and Baroque works in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. He emigrated to Israel in 1948 and in 1953 and 1955 attended the summer art courses held at Kibbutz Na'an under Yossef Zaritsky and Avigdor Stematsky. Under the influence of the lyrical abstract style of these artists his work became increasingly abstract by the late 1950s, as in Painting (1959). In 1960 he had his first one-man show at the Chemerinsky Gallery in Tel Aviv, and the following year he travelled in Europe.

Naama Ben Yosef


Catalog #31


Naama Ben Yosef
s.t.
2009
30 X 40cm
Edition – 1, a/p – 2/5, ink print on paper

About the Artist: Naama Ben Yosef is currently a Multi-field arts instructor for kindergarten children, exhibition instructor and part of the education and instructing staff, MoBY: Museums of Bat-Yam.  She is also a Photo laboratory assistant at The School of Arts, Beit Berl.  Her latest exhibits include: D.Z34, Curator and producer of art/culture event with "Nightclub" concept, at the School of Arts Gallery, Tel-Aviv, featuring 15 artists (2009) and Domestika II, solo exhibition at "Alfred" Gallery, including photography, sculpture and video (2009).

Omri Shapira



Catalog #33

Omri Shapira

Untitled (at Ein Hakore)
2008
60 x 60 cm
inkjet print, 1 of 5


About the Artwork: The story behind this location is as follows:  Samson, the biblical hero, was thirsty, and he prayed to God and asked for water. He found a source, which he named "the source of the caller (to God)" which is referred to in the bible as Ein Hakore (Ein=Source / Hakore = Caller).  Today, this desolate landscape has become a junction of hope, connecting people and paving the way for a better future.

About the Artist: Israeli born photographer, graduate of the Bezalel Acadamy of Art, lives in the heart of historic Tel-Aviv, works and creates for almost a decade.Published works in several leading Israeli magazines, such as art and culture magazine 'Time Out', fashion and trend setting magazine 'Blazer' and intellectual and literary journal "Alpaiim".A book by Israel's most famous and popular singer, Shlomo Artzi, celebrating 30 years of his radio show "Not Saturday Yet", published sep. 2009, was extensively illustrated by Shapira.In Aug. 2009, Shapira joined a photography gallery named "D&A". His works will appear regularly in group exhibitions. His first individual show is scheduled for June 2010.

Orit Ishay


Catalog #34

Orit Ishay
Courtesy of Anat Ahouvi
Ayala
2008
40 x 40 cm



About the Artwork: The doe is a symbol of nimbleness and good news. The drawing of the doe is found on the flag of the Naftali tribe. The Ramban says that this is a sign for the goodness of the tribe.  The doe's damaged face in the picture, hint of the attempt to hurt her, for an unknown reason, but she does not break, she stands straight on her thin legs near the young deer. The young deer in the picture is reclining,  feels no danger, it feels protected and symbolizes the idea that birth is redempion, and a promis of continuity and future. The choice to place the statue infront of a mirror multiplies the power and resilience of the doe.

About the Artist: Born in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Israel in the field of photography and installation.  Graduated with honors-  Musrara-The Nagger School of Photograpy, Media and New Music(2006). Orit Ishay’s photographic work exists the surreal space where the daily meets sublime and the sorrow rubs against small joys. Her photographs portray the complexity of life in “gray” areas of life. Selected solo exhibitions: Public Domaim (2009 Israel); Fire Zone (2008’ Israel); Blocked(Israel 2008);Regarding Pilgrims (2006 St. Petersburg & Krakow Poland). Selected Group Exhibitions: Fotografie aus Israel(2009 Dusseldorf); Art of Emergancy (2009 Berlin); Big Spender (2009 Tel- Aviv); Desert Generation(2007 Israel); Bread (2006 Jerusalem); Atitude 03 (2006 Macedonia).

Pinchas Cohen Gan


Catalog #35

Pinchas Cohen Gan
Courtesy of Givon Gallery


About the Artist: Born in Morocco in 1942, Pinchas Cohen Gan is an Israeli painter and mixed-media artist. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 and studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (graduating in 1971) and the Central School of Art in London before receiving a BA degree in Social Science and History of Art at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1973). His mixed-media works of the 1970s conveyed his sense of physical dislocation at being estranged as a Moroccan refugee in Israel; the human figure appeared as an essential element of this theme of displacement and homelessness. In 1975 he returned to drawing and painting in works such as Analogical Work on Computers (1977; Tel Aviv Mus. A.), in which faceless, generalized figures function as symbols in a non-specific space. From 1975 to 1977 Cohen Gan lived in New York, where he studied at Columbia University (MFA, 1977), before settling in Tel Aviv, where he combined scientific systems with introspective autobiographical references in narrative paintings such as the series Formula and Painting Confrontations (1982; Tel Aviv Mus. A.); in these works form and color, depth and flatness are interwoven as a means of binding together the figures.





Ravid Biran


Catalog #36
Ravid Biran
Flag
2008
30 x 25 cm
Photograph, Ink on paper, Edition 1/5, From the series "Hill Top Boys"
About the Artist: Ravid Biran was born in December, 1973.  His recent exhibitions include: "Love Art" Open studio ARTLV09 (2009);  "Home" group exhibition, Apart Art gallery (2009); and "Different Nature" Photography group exhibition, D&A gallery (2009). www.ravidbiran.com
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