44 DEGREES 2015 No subject

ABOUT THE MAGAZINE 44 DEGREES is an online magazine dedicated to the promotion of contemporary Israeli artists.

The magazine showcases various artists such as digital media artists, painters, sculptors, and curators, with each issue focusing on a different theme.

Artists showcased in the magazine may be contacted via the URL posted.

The magazine may be viewed in The Israel Museum in Jerusalem information archive room and in Tel Aviv Museum Library.

44 DEGREES online art Magazine was founded by the artist TAMMY MIKE LAUFER She created the concept and she's also the Designer\ Editor \Art director \Curator Producer \ Website Director.

Tammy Mike Laufer lives and works in Israel. She is an international contemporary artist and art director.

She is graduate from the extension of the "Technion" Israel Institute for Technology in the department of Graphic Design, and continuing education program for designers at Sivan College Tel Aviv.

She has been engaged with Digital Media for two decades.

Tammy Mike Laufer's digital media works were exhibited in Museums, art projects in places such as Italy (53 Venice Biennale) Greece,Japan,the US, Portugal, Latvia Israel and more.

The official website of the magazine

www.44degrees.net

All rights reserved Š 2013

Art on the front by Tammy Mike Laufer

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ZIPI BIRAN

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RONI BEN-ARI

29

LENA FISHTEL

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DANIEL BAHARIER

16

ASHER GIBEL

30

VANESSA STASHINSKI

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RONIT ADAM

17

ANDREY POVAROV

31

EUNICE FIGUEIREDO

4

HAVA RAUCHER

18

JOZSEF RAZ

32

NURIT CEDERBOUM

5

DANIELA AMENT

19

ARIEH SHAPIRA

33

MEGI ROME

6

MIRI FLEISHER

20

GALIA ROGNER

34

JUDITH ENGLARD

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SHIRAZ ELOHEV

21

FANNY HOROWITZ

35

TINA SULTANI

8

GILEAD TADMOR

22

ELI DINER

36

RINA SOFRIN-SHAPIRA

9

SIGALIT ESHET

23

ARTYOM KAPUSTA

37

ANNA MANSOHN

10

LUCY ELKIVITY

24

ETTI CHECHOVER

38

MICHAL ROITBORD BACHAR

11

RuTea S. NOY

25

NILLY KESSLER

39

MARITA MILKIS

12

TAMMY MIKE LAUFER

26

MARLEN ISMALON

40

LILY DAVID

13

NOAH SHAMIR

27

HILA ENGEL

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VIVIAN H. BIRKENFELD

14

LEORA EGER-DREYFUSS

28

ANDRE STASHINSKI

42

DAFNA YAROM

NO SUBJECT YAEL NITZAN art curator

In creating a new world the artist rescues himself, and often the others.

- Andre Maurois Creativity is one of the most difficult concepts to define. This is a term that conceals a wide range of worlds and contradictions, which can not coexist at the same time.

This issue of 44 Degrees, artists display their best creations to reveal their inspiration by creating a new and very impressive say.

NO OBJECT sheet is unique in the way it opens a wide window to show art.

Creativity is, probably, the concept that includes all possible contrasts: spirit and matter, body and soul, simplicity and complexity, genius and madness, but also random and systematic.

Art is a lively and optimistic way for these artists, proposing us a hopeful gaze into the world. yaelnitzan@bezeqint.net

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SUBJECT

• ZIPI BIRAN The art of sculpting is significant in manifesting my independence and individuality. I enjoy feeling the raw material in my hands and the total freedom to create with my hands that which I choose, whilst coping with the materials' constraints. The materials I use are clay, resin, glass, stone, and wood.

Clay enables me to create images as I see them. As an optimist and energetic person, I prefer to emphasize the positive and happy sides of my images; pleasant experiences and situations, expressions of pleasure, support, mutual understanding, laughter and sexual attraction.

My work is characterized by smooth, round and dynamic lines expressing movement and vitality.

Sculpting with wood is different both in process and in the end result. In carving I attempt to capture the natural essence of the material and its shape.

My love of people and animals and the state of mind which I am in are projected in my first look at the wood: I search for clues of the images that are inherently within the wood before I started working. Thus, the result is significantly influenced from the initial and natural shape of the material. biranzipi@gmail.com www.biranpsalim.com

A celo player, wood,h 80 cm

Curious woman, broken glass and resin, h- 70 c"m

• DANIEL BAHARIER I was born in England in 1956, where I studied art. I immigrated to Israel in 1980.

In 1994-5, I was commissioned by Emilio Pellus, head of EDF Construction & Investments Ltd., to create 24 pieces, each one 3 to 3.5 (10-12 feet) meters in height, depicting figures from the Jewish Diaspora of a hundred years ago, for his Carmel Shuk 2000 project in Rishon-LeZion.

In 1996, I collaborated with British artist Michelle Baharier on an installation titled “Lennon’s On Sale Again”, which is a multi-media experience, using sound, sculpture, collages, projections and poetry.

My sculptures have been widely used in films and television dramas in Israel, and were part of an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. My works are in many private collections in Israel and around the world. Former MK Meir Shitreet andCabinet Minister, has five of my sculptures in his collection.

I have three large-scale sports sculptures at the Wingate Institute, in which I was able to combine my lifelong love of showing movement and sport.

In my private work, I am working on a series of pieces revolving around a friend of my daughter’s who died from a drug overdose at the age of eighteen, taking Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass as my inspiration.

I am also working on a series of sculptures and works I call Interlude which is about relationships. danielbaharier@gmail.com

Mobeus strip18 inches bronze

Dancer 18inches high bronze

Rythmic dancer maquette 6 inches bronze

• RONIT ADAM My big passion for art initially started when I was a child who loved animals.

As crazy as it sounds but it was through the primary connection with the animal kingdom that I found my self-drawn to the trees, the stones and all the beauty nature has to offer. I was 9 years old, when I was first offered a piece of clay during a primary art class-the connection was immediate. Everything flowed in such a natural way, as if I have been doing this all my life. For the last 30 years I have been running a studio, teaching student of all ages and learning from them as we progress together.

During the last years I have been working with stones. I approach each stone in apprehension and suspense, with great appreciation to its history, timidly observing its lines and allowing a natural flaw to guide me. I search for its wonders and discover its uniqueness.

I never use sketch guidelines, just the stones inner message.

I never know in advance what my next work of art will be or where it will take me. However far my creation takes me, I always leave part of the original stone as I seal as I know, and fully understand that nature is more beautiful than any work of art. http://adamronit.wix.com/adamronit adamtamar10@gmail.com

Pebble 10X8cm

Marble 22X15 cm

Marble 21X19

Limestone 25X9cm

marble 30X14cm

• HAVA RAUCHER I am working from observation, observing my own image as well as images of people I invite to my studio.

My realistic painting style, is not a definite academic, but based on a conceptual foundation. I draw and paint from observation, using outer eye and inner eye alike, so the result is not naturalistic, but expressive with a slight distortion of the painted image. each such distortion shifts the viewer's from the photographic image, to its psychological depth. The pictorial space is a conceptual collage, detached from reality.

Alongside painting I am engaged in doing three dimensional work, painted aluminum sculptures, that I sees as an extension of my paintings.

self portrait with Amnon oil on canvas 160x120 cm 1996

www.havaraucher.com hava-ra@bezeqint.net Self Portrait oil on canvas 100x100 cm 1987

self portrait painted aluminiun 55 cm hight 2014

self portrait painted aluminium 160 cm hight 2014

• DANIELA AMENT I started sculpting at the age of 50, twenty years ago.

Usually I work in clay, and then some of the works I make into bronze.

Lately I work more with wax on pieces that are going to be made of bronze My sculptures are shown in Israel and in exhibitions around the world like France, Italy, Canada and the USA I love my work and my sculptures. I put a lot of me and my thoughts and feelings into images mostly of women and children that I know best. That's why I do it.

daniela.ament@gmail.com The learned lawyer

www.ament-daniela.com

Birth

Pregnancy

• MIRI FLEISHER In my work I try to express my love and admiration to clay and all the process of working with it. I try to show the process in the results and push the materials to the edge before melting. Although the fire in an electric kiln the works are fired in extreme conditions with the danger of losing them or the elements of the kiln.

I chose those I like and the others are thrown or fired again and again. I value the vessels as Art. Each one is unique in attention, shape and glaze cover.

I am very happy to know that people use them, touch them and observe them. Lately my works are collected by people who want just to watch them and it is ok with me too.

Technique: Clay, oxides and glazes fired to 1200 c. degree www.mirifleisher.blogspot.com mirifleisher@bezeqint.net

Some years ago I created works which expressed social and political ideas, or my autobiography, but nowadays I prefer functional pots for use of people as a gesture of love, trying to give the pieces the sense of Nature event almost volcanic.

18x12cm

17x12, 18x13cm

12x8cm

• SHIRAZ ELOHEV Combinations Connections between the different worlds, the spiritual and the material, the fine and the coarse, the simplistic and the complicated.

Creating a touching and new connection that veers from the conventional.

Each material has a story and a purpose.

When I remove one material from the familiar, changing and combining with another, a new and curious tale is spun.

I am a multi-platform artist –A jewelry designer, a painter and an educator for the Arts.

Art for me is the ongoing voyage of discovery and exposure, interpretation of realities, and through to the creation of new worlds. I believe in the healing power of art and sharing the process of creating art. Through my work I wish to give the observer curios joy and light humor and a different point of view.

With the heart opening Alchemist dance I combine between my desires, forging new worlds to explore. shirazelohev@gmail.com

Flute Brooches

Remote control rings

Xylophone Bracelet

Whistle bracelet

• GILEAD TADMOR My creative work grows out of a tension between a love of humanity, a tendency to see the ironic and the absurd in the human condition, a Bacchanalian urge to cross boundaries and a pool towards the orderly and well defined. A human fish or bird, a bird rider, a (literally) boxed renaissance figure and a variety of unsaintly saints are protagonists that emerge form that tension.

My goal is to harness these internal tensions and contradictions, within a creative theme, and between them and the visual tools in my disposal.

In addition to painting, drawing and print-making, my main body of work comprises papier-mâché sculptures and reliefs.

Indeed, even after years of exploration and experience, I keep rediscovering the wealth of possibilities - and challenges – that are specific to papier-mâché as a creative medium.

Likewise, it is the wealth of creative tools offered by intaglio engraving that and the challenge of creating a monochromatic counterpart of the blunt coloration I explore in my papier-mâché work that are key to my attraction to printmaking. tadmor.gilead@gmail.com

Lady with bird and grasshopper

philosopher in box

Tadmor_Bird & Rider_papier mache relief_140x120_cm

Portrait_of_a_woman

• SIGALIT ESHET Art is a way of life for me. In my studio I create and teach mosaic and believe that any person can find a way to express himself through it. That is why I find it highly important to give each and every student a personal attention.

I studied Art and teaching Art in University and worked as a graphic designer for many years. I have specialized different fields of art over the years - painting on paper, wood and silk, drawing on walls in children's rooms, polymer clay, stained glass, mosaic and more. I combine all my experience in my mosaic work.

My love to colors can be seen in my works.

Each is special and created with the highest attention to details. I always enjoy planning, designing and of course seeing my plans come true.

I have published 6 digital mosaic books on Amazon Kindle store, all based on my experience and my desire to teach mosaic and make people happy with their art work. sigalit@sigalitart.net www.sigalitart.net

Pretty woman 30x40 cm , painting and mosaic glass

7 cmhigh 75 cm high. A giant vase

25x25 cm, mosaic glass on canvas Orange butterfly

37 cm, glass and mirrors mosaic A golden heart flower

• LUCY ELKIVITY The root of the work lies in inner voices.

Mute voices, teeming with life. They search formation, birth, a way of being through the canvas and paper. There is something automatic, something unconscious about the inception of new work. An image floats in an undefined world, is hunted and captured. After that comes the disengagement. There is a need to rest, to leave the work be, and then see if it seeks anything further. I start feeling for its needs, trying to have a non verbal dialogue, as I paint its encompassing world.

As for subject, the inspiration might be the biomorphic world. I look for a system of tools that can examine any living being.

What does a living being need to exist?

And as for the source, the answer is Nature, and everything that derives from it. There lies my fascination.

I am a studio artist first and foremost. I do not need wide open spaces for the work. The eye is pointed inwards. To paraphrase Aviva Uri, it is a kind of emotional landscape. Even if I refer to Nature, in the studio I internalise it and it speaks in my voice.

The materealized creatures are very physical, but I wish for them to own certain emotional traits, and eventually become emotionally open ended, capable of endless change.

I wish to paint: What comes out of our mouth, what the skin transmits, the gap between the two, what is swallowed, what is gone. elkivity@gmail.com www.lucyelkivity.com

marionette-mixed media-h120cm-2012

book-mixed media-11x15cm

• RuTea S. NOY I am a conceptual and multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, fine art photographer, visual narrator, creative director. In past years my work focused mainly on fine art illustration and sculpture till I met photographer Zin Arthur. He convinced me to add photography to my artistic mediums and I fell in love with the camera. Later on, I studied with fashion photographer Didie Dorot (FIT) and film director Morten Parker (NYU) who became my techno media source of inspiration. Their spirit is embedded in my digital work including the following collection that was created by assorted photographic styles and techniques.

Heaven's Gate

http://ruteanoy.wix.com/rutea-s-noy noyfilms@gmail.com

That old Bilbao Moon

Shakespeare anyone

Spying Cat

Sheer Glow

Panta Rhei

• TAMMY MIKE LAUFER My works are similar to mental puzzles, where you can travel from one point to another by analyzing a picture’s symbolic objects. there is always something for the observer to discover.

I never force my vision or push my philosophical opinion on the viewers each and every one, can give theirs philosophy to my creation.

My art is surreal reality, all in my head.

The viewer take a journey to places just as real as those you might find in this reality.

When I start working on a new scene, it's like enter to a fantasy dream. like starting your new only virtual world.

“Everything is possible” and in the majority of my works I am trying to combine visual realities, with subconscious emotions and philosophical thoughts.

I create my virtual world, with 3d software and 2d paint software.

Using combinations of renderings, lightings, textures and shapes. tamylauf@netvision.net.il www.tammymikelaufer.com

Storm of Emotions 1 , digital manipulations

Storm of Emotions 2 , digital manipulations

Storm of Emotions 3-4, digital manipulations

Storm of Emotions 5-6, digital manipulations

• NOAH SHAMIR Born 1947, lives in Omer, Israel. Scientist (physics), artists (painter and photographer) and traveler (mostly hiking).

I paint, using acrylic colors on canvases and also on offset printing sheets. These allow me cutting and bending, adding another dimension to the paintings.

Most of my paintings are abstracts. My inspiration usually comes from various photos that I take, mostly of decay, rust and graffiti, but also other phenomena, like the Chilean Marble Caves, that inspired two of the presented paintings. Two of the painted offset sheets, presented here, were inspired by the same section of a gate in Prague that was badly abused. The two photographs presented are part of my exhibition "light".

Until now, I have presented my paintings and photographs in 9 single exhibitions and numerous group ones. noah.shamir@gmail.com

Light 1

Light 6

Ice

Light 2

• LEORA EGERDREYFUSS Born in Haifa, Israel.

I Photograph realistic photography in color, focusing on the desire to capture reality and freeze the passing moment.

My Photography style searches to combine and balance between the objective description of reality, and my personal and emotional point of view.

I try to discover the complexity, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

I photograph in color because color photography both resembles reality and expresses sentiment. The color is a language that bears a meaning to every combination, nuance and tone. dreyfuss@bezeqint.net

• RONI BEN-ARI Multimedia Artist and curator For many years, I have been dealing with subjects of social interest as well as investigating my own biography by way of the events taking place around me.

Feedback by viewers of my shows reveals that my artworks make a deep impression that lasts for a long period of time, exactly as I succeeded to do in my journalistic reporting of social issues.

As a Social documentary artist I'm dealing through my photographs/ video/ instlations with human landscape.

My projects purposes are to bring up the public awareness to those that society is used to deny. The photodocuments allow viewers to have a chance to look into difficulties of others.

My works were award many times and are displayed in Galleries and Museums, in Solo and Groups exhibitions, and in Private collections in Israel and Worldwide. www.ronibenari.com roni@ronibenari.com

• ASHER GIBEL My favorite type of photography is street photography. people in every day context inspire me.

A human photo subject is facinating in its own right.

If onlly because of the connection between the characteristic inward and outward expressions of facial expressions and movements.

ashergibel@gmail.com

• ANDREY POVAROV What is a photograph? A particle of light reflected in the mirror of the reality, crossing the prism of the artist's mind and etched forever in the memory of mankind.

Despite all the laws of nature, time slows down until it stops with the birth of the frame. Due explosive flash light, time for a new universe comes.

Observing the reality around me is similar to a gaze through a window into a fictional world that is not yet created, and the camera in my hands is going to make it alive.

My works are not the product of "nowhere." Materials surround me in everyday life, and I need only to observe, to reach out and to march towards the imagination. povarov.andrey@gmail.com

• JOZSEF RAZ A Digital Artist Photographer.

Visual Graphic Design and History of Art graduate.

On the way from the analog world to the digital world , I went from using direct contact of the materials such as : celluloid , steel , wood , glass and canvas to the digital world where I collect all the materials for may work using the camera and the scanner.

The computer's mouse is my main tool to draw and scalp my work of art.

My work expresses " searching after the beauty in the ugliness and the ugliness in the beauty " and creates an illusion of the fantasy world.

jozsefraz@gmail.com

• ARIEH SHAPIRA Born in Jerusalem, Israel .

I Graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in Social Sciences and have an Msc. Degree From Boston University, USA, in Journalism and PR .(including still and video photography). Later I served as Asst. Consul for Education in NYC. Back in Israel, I worked, during the years, in Advertising, Editing, Public Relations and Spokesman for various government Ministries.

Photography has been my hobby for many years, in Israel and abroad as a tourist Guide.

After retiring, I joined a photo Club and learned more about digital photography.

In my photographs, I try to express my enthusiasm from the beauty of both natural and man-made landscapes, as well as , on the other hand, empathy with human misfotune. At times, I find myself trying to look at the" bright side of life" with a wink of humor and irony, trying to catch the" decisive moment". ariehshapira@gmail.com

• GALIA ROGNER I started my journey in the digital photography world at the end of 2008, I've never studied photography formally, I've gained my knowledge through personal experience and exploring.

At the beginning I was focusing on self portraiture as a tool for dealing with existential issues. Through working with my own body I feel firmer, more concrete in my own existence. When I photograph myself I usually challenge my body and explore its abilities and boundaries.

Since then I've been photographing other people, landscapes, details‌anything that catches my eyes and mind, mostly with added symbolism. When the need arises I photograph myself.

I'm interested in eternalizing the impermanent by capturing the most elusive moments and also in facing intimidating existential conditions as isolation, solitude and mortality.

Over the years I've been exhibiting my work in solo and group exhibitions, in Israel and around the world, my work has been published in photography books, on line magazines and I took part in various photography projects. galia.rogner@gmail.com http://galiarogner.wix.com/photogra phy

• FANNY HOROWITZ I am a figurative painter. I draw inspiration from the Impressionist movement and from the intense colors of Matisse's Fauvism.

Like the Impressionists, I take a special interest in light. In the way it bounces back from different objects.

In the special colors that are formed by these reflections of light.

Being a colorist artist, I produce vibrant, color-drenched paintings.

My technique is aimed at generating a sense of mystery leaving space for imagination and emotions. fanny@fh-art.co.il www.fh-art.co.il

I paint female objects and scenes taken from modern women's lives.

I explore strong and highly self-conscious women.

I expropriate them from their natural context, give them my emotional interpretation, losing a sense of external time and place, entering and observing inner emotional worlds.

Paparazzi Oil on canvas 80* 65 cm

Behind the vail 65*80 cm Oil on canvas

The Look 102*76 cm Oil on canvas

Dressing Room 57*80 Cm Oil on canvas

• ELI DINER The most hidden thing in any attempt to represent reality is reality itself because the only actual phenomena, present in this effort, are the means to achieve it and they fill up the whole space of representation.

Any artistic image denotes or is symbolic of a kind of reality and is comprehended by the spectator thanks to the use of implicit artistic stratagems. When the means used by the artist become explicit, representation itself becomes less transparent and introverted. It talks only about itself.

Without those stratagems representation cannot exist and without representation we cannot understand our world. That is why any attempt to represent something requires, in my opinion, a clear reference to the representational means in use.

In painting that means that the artist is required to foreground his materials and his brushstroke because those are the only things that really exist on the canvas.

Diner.eliahu@gmail.com www.elidiner.com

Claustrofobia IV - Oil on Canvas 100 x 140 cm - 2015

Apron III - Oil on Canvas 120x90 cm - 2015

Oil on Canvas 104 x 76 cm - 1997

Earthly Trinity - Oil on Plywood 30x30 cm - 2014

Aroma - Oil on Canvas 70 x 60 cm - 2002

• ARTYOM KAPUSTA In my art I combine principles of academic figurative painting and coloristic achievements of the Modernism, developing my own visual language in attempt to explore and erase the boundaries between normal and fantastic, real and imaginary. Starting a new painting I never know what the result will look like. I let the images flow through my mind, change, develop and differ from any original idea. I use mostly oil paint - a rich lively material that allows you to think about your next step till it dries.

Fascinated by beauty, symbolism and ambiguity of human body, I frequently depict nude figures in my artwork.

My characters are captured in a state of continuous dialogue with themselves while I’m having an ongoing dialogue with them and with color. These dialogues are about selfanalysis, loneliness, imperfection, beauty and silence. They reflect who we want to be and who we really are. https://artavita.com/artists/7720artyom-kapusta

Kapustaart@gmail.com

Creation_oil on canvas (80x90)_2012

Winter_oil on canvas _80x90

oil on canvas_(80x100) 2013

Hike_90x110_oil on canvas_2014

sacrifice (triptych) 80x100_acrylic on canvas_2014

Untitled 80 x 120 _acrylic on canvas_2014

• ETTI CHECHOVER Graduated from "Bezalel" Academy of Arts, 1977.

Engaged in painting since 1979 In my work I am using different techniques.

This works are: oil on wood The wooden platform participates in the painting, and is a part of it, in color and texture.

Mannic01@gmail.com Facebook

• NILLY KESSLER Born in Jerusalem Graduated of the Hebrew University (Humanities faculty) and received a degree of Graphic Designer from the Academie Charpentier in Paris.

The subjects shown are not so much deliberately chosen, but motivated by a personal chance response to the beauty of these passing events. nillyk@netvision.net.il

Graphics, Animation, Movies 1987 - 2006 - Graphic designer and animator At the Israel Broadcasting Authority (channel1) 1983 - 1986 - Art director of short commercial films 2001 - Director and producer of the documentary film "Women's Own" 2013 - Director and producer of the documentary film "Last Dance for Klara“

www.nilly-art.com

These 8 works (4+4) – All oil paintings on canvas have been executed during the last four years Though these paintings are realistic in style, they actually record the placement of abstract areas of colors on the canvas which at some point becomes a concrete reality.

70/60cm

40/30cm

40/30cm

50/60cm

50/60cm

40/100cm

• MARLEN ISMALON The figurative is a sculptural feast, especially when put on the two dimensionality of a canvas. I'm obsessed with the human figure with all its curves, angles and movements. Through this movement, I seek to express a search and a yearning for the most simple, pure and profound truth. Nature is always there too, archaic and powerful. Roots, twigs, branches, intertwining and separating, dig into the soil and back into the human form.

Some years ago, I worked as a massage therapist. This experience was a great help for me since I can "feel" the body from within.

I paint only from "inner" imagery. Each painting is a journey into a new unknown. marlenismalon@gmail.com

• HILA ENGEL During the past decade I am absorbed in abstract painting. My works look like urban landscapes, although I don’t consciously direct the painting process to this end.

At the same time I don’t neglect painting from observations which I find challenging to both the eye and mind.

I find colour theories fascinating.

I would like to find my finished work interesting, but it does not concern or worry me during the process. When I work, I concentrate on the sensation of applying paint with varied tools and materials. I love of the physical action of painting.

Alma-Icon oil and gold leaf on canvas 60x45cm

www.hilaengel.com

hila_engel@hotmail.com

Date acrylic on canvas 80x80cm

Sketch2 markers on paper 15x20cm

Desert acrylic on canvas 50x100cm

Sketch5 markers on paper 15x20cm

• ANDRE STASHINSKI Sometimes you do not need any special subject or theme to start painting. Being attracted by a random scene, I often do not investigate the meaning of what I saw. The only thing I am looking for – to translate my first impression into my painting. The subject or the story may appear later. Actually it can be an infinite number of them. Here each viewer has a privilege to find his own interpretation. astashinski@gmail.com

I'll be back in 1 minute_watercolor 40 x 50 cm

Officer_watercolor_30 x 40 cm

Sous la torch_re rouge_watercolor_30 x 40 cm

• LENA FISHTEL “Art is the only serious thing in the world.

And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” ― Oscar Wilde I am happy because making art makes me feel good.

Creating something makes me smile. I am happy because I can create my own world – colorful, funny, sometimes lonely, sometimes childish. But it always unique. e.fishtel@gmail.com http://telavivit.wix.com/lena Girl with pomegranates. Acrylic on canvas panel. 30*40 cm. (in private collection)

Snow girl with chrysanthemum. Acrylic on canvas. 35*35 cm

Girl with fox. Acrylic on canvas. 30*30 cm. (in private collection)

• VANESSA STASHINSKI No subject, but object. Being visible and touchable – means being material. Does material means objective? How objective we are about still life around us? How far associations can take us? There are few works from the exhibition of still life.

“Microcosmoses” – it’s about relations between objects. It may be simple or complicated, cheerful or full of drama, but it exists. Name of “Microcosmoses” is not grammar mistake; I believe that each one of those has own microcosmos, when they are a lot – they are microcosmoses.

Beads_Oil_40 x 30

http://microcosmoses.blogspot.com vaniiivaniii@hotmail.com Carousel_Oil_34 x 25

Summer (Pink Sandals)_Oil_60 x 42

Escape_Oil_60 x 42

• EUNICE FIGUEIREDO As an artist my vision is that of being an equal among equals; a citizen of the Earth, encompassing people, cultures and places that made me who I am as a person and as an artist.

I am an architect and artist living and working mainly in Jerusalem, Israel.

Born in Recife, Brazil, 8.30" south of the Equator line.

As a backdrop the Ocean, the Tropical land and forest, the Afro- Brazilian culture and the ancient Iberian/Dutch/Jewish roots as background.

The ocean, the tropical involucres, the Afro- Brazilian culture and the ancient Iberian/Dutch/Jewish roots of place of origin, form the basis of my sense of being. This initial imprint stays throughout our life as a basic point of reference.

As an architect also working in projects for the preservation and renovation of the Heritage in Israel, I am constantly exposed to layers of different civilizations that left their visions and “desir de grandeur” imprinted in stone. We reveal images of cities, cultures and dreams buried under the ground being rediscovered and reinterpreted through present time eyes. nichefig@gmail.com www.ef.homepro.co.il

Family_portrait_with_maid-1939._150x120_cm.

Senhor_do_Bomfim_180x120

Madona_deTamandare_180x120_cm.

Atman_090X120

• NURIT CEDERBOUM These collections of works represent different periods in my career. In this works I apply different techniques. I "borrowed" craft's techniques like embroidery, sewing, woodwork etc. and bring it to the arts.

I use different materials like - paint, canvas; wood, fabrics, ropes, wires, etc. combined them together to be one unique. In those works the materials and the technique stays as a symbols, images and messages. nuritart@bezeqint.net www.nuritart.co.il

Thick cardboard, rope, paint, material, industrial paint and wood , 100X100,1987

Oil on cardboard with wood cut and linoleum prints, 90X200, 1992

Acrylic on plaster bandages, wires and thin ropes and small pottery, 120X150, 2014

Oil on different materials (jute, wood sheet napkins). 120X140, 1987

• MEGI ROME My art is a product of my life, adventures, experiences and dreams, containing elements of a strict framework versus freedom.

My paintings are filled with love and compassion of our troubled world, People who surrender to their fate or those who are searching for their dreams.

My paintings are my love for you.

Psalms, acrylic on wood, 120x90cm

www.megiromeart.com megiromeart@gmail.com

No name, acrylic on wood, 70x50cm

No name, acrylic on wood, 120x90cm

No name, acrylic on wood, 120x90cm

• JUDITH ENGLARD I immigrated to Israel from Baghdad together with my family at the age of 4 under the name- Fauzia, Following several -typical to those daysstops with Absorption difficulties, we settled in Ramat Gan. I grew up in a house Characterized by the culture which my parents came from – Extreme Patriarchal where my freedom was obtained by hard labor

I began painting at my 40th as an autodidact, and Since then I devoted myself entirely to painting, with uncompromising intense and firm.

My motto is to intensify the woman's spirit, and give her the appropriate position in life.

I receive the energy of my work from the universe, natural phenomenon and from any other thing in which I find perfection; I try to implement these feelings in to my work.

The abstraction- from my point of view- is a reflection of nature movement, Wave motion, Movement of the wind, a tree discarding its leaves, Etc. My work develops spontaneously while moving. It is composed of my emotional and spiritual condition as a woman and gets its impression in color choosing, shapes, in the suggestive figurative and color layers.

My challenge is to interpret the mental existence and the daily situation to integrative language.

I try to weave in to my works: childhood memories, esthetic search, intuition, life experience and passion. englard@bezeqint.net

Colorful Girl, 2013, Oil on canvas, 70x70cm

Blessing 2007, Oil on Canvas 130x200 cm

After the Cry,2009, Oil on Canvas,160x110cm

• TINA SULTANI Watercolor is the magical medium that gives us the alternative to express feelings, mystery, beauty and atmosphere.

I love to express all this elements in my paintings and to follow where the watercolor leads me...

I enjoy painting a variety of subjects including flowers, figures, wildlife and landscapes.

Purple iris 47x38 cm

Technique: watercolor citywhite@walla.co.il

Pink flower 56x76 cm

Cactus and a bird 38x43 cm

• RINA SOFRINSHAPIRA The poet Tchernichovsky wrote that "a man is patterned by his homelands' landscape" – I identify With that. My childhood in the rural landscape of Nahalal and Tivon in the Jesrael Valley has Influenced deeply my love to the beauty for nature and landscape of Israel. I feel that the trees and the rocks , the hills and clouds have a life of their own, without human presence. This is what I try to express in my neo-impressionistic and realistic paintings. Only rarely I paint in abstract style.

I use various media such as oil, acrylic and watercolor. I love also to draw with pencils, charcoal and pastel. This I have learned in my academic studies of paining, architecture, city planning and interior design , both in Israel and in the U.S.A. I am a member of "impact" the artists Plastic Association and of the Unesco International Association of Artists. arrinas@hotufi.net

Old house - Rechovot. Acrylic on canvas 60X80

• ANNA MANSOHN Being a painter isn't just being a hard working craftsman and an artist but also a bit of a creator. By taking scenes from our world and transforming them to art, an artist changes a reality as he sees it.

If it's only by adding different colours, dots instead of stones or making just a few touches of his brush, the painter creates his own universe, where he and only he has absolute power. Moving a building or placing palms where I see them, allows me to give a viewer a glimpse inside my artistic soul and making it visible to others - surprising not only them but often myself. I'm also just a viewer of my own creation.

Works in mixed technique combining acrylic and vitrage colors.

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• MICHAL ROITBORD BACHAR I trying to capture the moment as the person experienced it.

Recently I chose to paint pieces of my personal life.

My paintings are inspired by family photographs, dealing with a firstborn child who's on the Autistic spectrum, and his relationship with his brother and surroundings.

Technique: Acrylic on canvas. michalroitbordbachar@gmail.com Brothers - size 40x50

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A look at the puddle – size 50x70

Childhood Memory - Father and daughter 40x50

Childhood Memory – sisters – size 40x50

• MARITA MILKIS An artist from Israel. Was born in USSR in 1962. By education professional theater director. Worked as: Interior designer, music teacher. Immigrate to Israel in 1992.

All over the time of art-life, made private exhibitions in USSR, France, Israel.

The sold works are in private collections in England, France, USA and Israel.

Created a lot of different jobs. From abstract graphics on paper to the three dimensional panels of wood, metal, leather and, of course, the colors!

In my work there is a lot of my different worlds: the conscious and subconscious, reality and fiction, the beautiful and the ugly, harmonious and discordant to the horror. All that there is in me.

I like to create!

In my work, there are different styles, textures and directions ... Pencils, pens, paint, fabric, wood, metal - all that excites my imagination!..

It makes me happy!!!

Transition - Acrylic on canvas, 100x80

http://maritecis50.wix.com/maritamilkisart maritecis50@gmail.com

Generations - three dimensional panel 100x100, wood, acrylic

Three Dimensional Panels 100x100 Wood

• LILY DAVID For me, art is a self search process that never ends. During this process, I connect to my inner soul seeking for meanings, feelings, sensations and thoughts .

I like to rework my paintings in new methods. This way I examine the power of technique over the painting, giving them new vitality, meaning and connotations.

Working technique - computer processing Lilyd13@walla.com Facebook

• VIVIAN H. BIRKENFELD This body of work deals with illness and the betrayal of the body. It was made during a period of time when a close member of my family had to go through chemotherapy due to cancer. The works deal with the need to be strong and supportive and above all, to cope with the sense of impotency against illness and the fear to lose a loved one.

The ants that appear in the works and in the videos are, in one hand, a metaphor for the invaders into the body, but in the other hand, they may be the ones who clean it from the black spots.

I found in my studio a place of solace and comfort. A place where I could hide and be (with) myself. The artworks started as a way to confront the sick cells, drawing them and the black blots that threatened to expand and invade the work/ body. I started to scratch the work's surface and drip into it a green "chemical" color, that should fight the black blots. I worked automatically knowing that these actions were futile, but they were a symbolic act. As if I could really help in a spiritual way.

Ants https://vimeo.com/128089550

Threats[1] https://vimeo.com/127947492

birki1@013.net http://www.arteria.co.il/artwork_cat _76.html

Infusion, triptych: ink on Veneer, 115X40 cm. each

Invaders III: ink and water colors on paper, 30X39 cm

Threat I: ink and water colors on paper, 30X39 cm

Fight: ink, acrylic and watercolors on paper, 30X39 cm

• DAFNA YAROM At first meeting, the desert landscape appears to be an open expanse with distinct, strong lines; monochromatic and repetitive. On more reflection however, their detailed features are divulged in all their softness and delicacy; like a magnification revealing a material's woven intricacies.

Paper is the perfect medium for me to express those landscapes.

From afar, paper appears to have a uniform texture, but up close, the randomness and varied texture of the fibers is unveiled.

Every new contemplation reveals added dimensions. The eye focuses on a defined section - framing a picture within a picture.

My work integrates the intended and the arbitrary. The material leads, and I follow – taking advantage of the opportunities it offers to stir my imagination. I use its different properties and varied qualities for my purposes. I read the random forms, created with the flow of the fibers and the water in the paper producing process, and decipher the small surprises in the repeated process of tearing and folding.

Finally I choose the fragments to build my work, and through a process of trial and error, the landscape appears and becomes whole.

Carefully rummaging through the recessed forms, words came to me.

Through other works in Hebrew, my mother tongue, I deconstruct words and rebuild them to reveal new hidden meanings.

My work is a process of deconstruction and assembly; a creation of a whole from pieces.

Sometimes the process creates a whole larger than its components. ygil@netvision.net.il www.ygil76.wix.com/paperdrawings

Peace circle

Desert Night

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Memories of the Desert 2014

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