Israeli Artists in New York 2015

Autumn Salon

Curated by Yael Nitzan

ISRAELI ARTISTS IN NEW YORK October 11th-22nd 2015 Opening October 11th 12th at 6 PM Arik Afek, Daniela Ament, Michal Mass Bachar, Dvorit Ben Shaul, Shula Dabi, Shuruq Egbariah, Leora Eger-Dreyfuss, David Einav, Chava Epstein, Ivan Ferrer, Eunice Figueiredo, Solomon Leviev, Irit Levy, Ricki Maissy, Radwan Mansour, Yoav Neta, Shlomit Raday, David Tsinman, Yaffa Wainer, Myron Zoran.

GATEWAY ART CENTER NYC 4 WEST 43rd ST, NEW YORK, NY WWW.ARTNYNY.COM 917-692-6920

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ateway Art Center NYC is very proud to host the American premier exhibition for most of the 20 fine visual accomplished artists exhibiting in our front Gallery.

We provide short term exhibition and event spaces on a full or partial sponsored basis.

Private & Public Events are held frequently for small gatherings to as many as 500 People.

Artists - Show Your Art, Tell Your Story on a curated basis for emerging and established artists.

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Located on the ground floor at 4 West 43rd Street by 5th Avenue, in an historic 1895 building originally constructed as the Columbia University Club, and dedicated exclusively to non-profit tenants, the focus today is for teaching, offices and common event areas.

The ground floor has over 8,000 square feet in total, a newly renovated lobby and 7 separate areas for Art Salons and event spaces, each 350 to 950 square feet, all surrounding a central 2,400 sq ft Social Hall with extra amenities for flexible and creative use (sound, lights, portable stage, tables, chairs, concert piano, projector, commercial kitchen, outside catering allowed).

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Yael Nitzan Curator

«Israeli art has always been the focus of much curiosity worldwide.

Already at the beginning of the last century artists used to travel to the big cities of the world to present their works and to rub shoulders with the who’s who of all modern avant-garde. Now, in the Internet age, many Israeli artists and great works continue to spread throughout the virtual world. We are therefore proud to present a great team of Israeli artists in ARTNYNY / GATEWAY New York Gallery incentral New York.

On exhibition are the works of very prominent women in the field of plastic arts in Israel as well as photographers, sculptors and other multidisciplinary artists and painters. All artists represent the best of Israeli art, presenting its figures, landscapes and unique, abstract art and landscapes from around the world. The audience will be amazed by the presentation of art so good and exciting.

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Yael Nitzan is an art producer and curator, a film producer, entrepreneur, cultural events organizer and a media consultant and researcher. She has worked for Art Comm since 2005, specializing in art production, curating and public relations.

Ms Nitzan has extensive experience in public relations and media consulting, working in those fields at Tikshur Mechuvan from 1996 to 2005. She also worked as head producer of dozens of daily live programs for Israeli television, as editorial coordinator for a leading weekly commentary program and as manager of a group formed specially for cable television.

She was director of the Department of Publicity and Media for the Kibbutz Movement Alliance. There she was responsible for the development of media projects such as the Kibbutz Channel, the management of cultural activities in Kibbutz Gvat and social and cultural activities in the Western Valley (Galilee) Regional School.

Between 1982 and 1992, Ms. Nitzan was involved in television production at the Herzliya Studios. She was the producer and editor of documentary and other films and television programs for Israel and other countries through Nitzan Productions, including several live daily shows.

Between 1976 and 1982 Ms Nitzan served in the army, initially as an emissary of the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defense to South Africa, Pretoria, in her position of administrative officer for the military attaché, and later as head of the US Desk in the branch of military attaches in the department of foreign relations of the IDF Intelligence branch, holding the rank of captain.

Ms Nitzan also established and ran a local business women’s forum, and she ran the non-profit organization Gift of Life for the research and promotion of organ transplants at the Rabin Medical Center and Schneider Center for Pediatric Medicine. She used to be the director of the ADI Association for the advancement of organ transplants in Israel.

Ms. Nitzan is managing director and founder of the ISRAELI WOMEN MUSEUM in Haifa, also serves as the manager of the Organization of Israeli Mosaic Artists (OIMA), which she founded in 2006.

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Arik Afek I

n 2010, after a long and very demanding job, Arik found himself at a crossroad. Decisions were not simple to make but the opportunity that presented itself, to make a major change in life was taken. Arik turned to his wire statuette hobby as the new direction. “Art in general, wire sculpture in particular and my family became the new focus of my life” he says.

Wire art is fascinating. Wire, the simplest of materials, is an under-appreciated media which allows many different forms of expression. A thread holds the power to express so many states of our soul with only the basics, a single line. These wire lines fill Arik’s world as he continues to explore new directions of expression, combining wire with other media such as canvas, glass and other recycled materials. The wires, he says, “create the balance between mass, energy line andspace, combining in a single breath lightness and gravity, equilibrium and motion.”

Afek captures in his works movement, expressions and perhaps a window into the soul of his protagonists. The wires, he says, “create the balance between mass, energy line and space, combining in a single breath lightness and gravity, equilibrium and motion.”

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Daniela Ament I

am sculpting for 20 years now, I am an self-taught artistI was born in Israel in 1945 to an art loving family. My work comes mostly from my emotional side plus thoughts, wishes, and memories. “The subjects of her works derive from her life experience. Driven by reflection and sensation, she chooses subjects she can easily identify with, such as women, children, and more abstract forms, which serve as vehicles for the expression of sensations and ideas.

Daniela has her own unique language” (Anat Nizan- curator).

Exhibitions: My sculptures were exhibited in over 40 solo and group exhibition in Israel, Paris, Vancouver, Florence and Ferrara Italy and Miami and New York City. I exhibit works in clay and bronze. In 2009 I spent a month with the Artcroft residency program in Kentucky U.S.A Featured in books: 1. ARTS - Le Livre des Artistes Israeliens : LA GAZETTE DES ARTS. Paris 2. CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF TODAY 2008-2009 : biblioteca de \ Artistas de las comounidades europeas 3. Creative Artists - 100 years to Tel-Aviv—Jaffa

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Michal Mass Bachar B

orn and living in Israel. Education: L.L.M Law degree, Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan , Israel. Abstract paintings, in bold color. A style, that focuses on looking at reality, with the desire to capture and freeze the passing moment.

Searching to combine and balance between an objective description and watching reality from a personal and emotional stand. Her paintings exhibit the complex, exciting and mysterious world in which we are living. It is a mix of sharp vision, technical knowledge and vividness. The color serves a double role - to convey reality and as a tool that expresses emotions. Color as a language, in which every combination, splash and tone bear a meaning. She exhibits a wide range of topics: human relations and portraits, dance and animals. Exhibited in over ten group exhibitions in Israel and overseas.

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Dvorit Ben-Shaul I

create in a variety of media / techniques mainly in two dimensions. Selecting a means of expression is a by product of the subject of the work, what is most suitable for the particular subject. I often deal with drawing and painting of landscapes and figures, and try to convey something else that exists there, some secret. It is important for me that the work would keep and transmit freshness and vitality. More areas of creation are taken from personal biography and from general legacy (for example from the Bible, and from various mythologies) or from pure interest in working with different materials, such as fabrics, threads, sewing, unraveling, or techniques of print, and most important, the real interest that flows from the heart in the subject of the work.

Education: Bezalel Academy in the 1970s. During my studies I received a grant from America - Israel Foundation. In 2002 I received a prize for Jerusalem Painter named after Shoshana Ish Shalom from the Artist House of Jerusalem. I was one of the founders of Agripas 12 Gallery cooperative Gallery and I was a member for ten years. Exhibited many solo exhibitions, and participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and overseas.

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Shula Dabi S

hula Dabi, sculptor Shula Dabi, sculptor, wife, mother, grandmother and an independent artist that uses for her sculptures feminine and human experiences. In her past she was a teacher and an artist and manager of a cultural center. She is a graduate of the seminar for art teachers. Over the years she has combined making and creating modern art from a variety of materials. Shula refers to her work as her children and similarly behind each creation there is a story, perception and feelings.

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Shuruq Egbariah S

huruq Egbariah is an abstract artist born in 1977 in Salem located on Mjedo at Israel, She devotes herself to art for the past 6 years as a freelance artist, and her work expresses the feeling of nature, and is a lover ofhorses, music, nature and creativity that is reflected in the colors and shades formed, expressing happiness, sadness, protest and contrast.

For her, art is something that makes us more thoughtful and well-rounded humans.

Shuruq Egbariah has a BA in Behavioral Sciences and MA Art Therapy and she is also an active member of the painters in Israel and abroad.

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Leora Eger-Dreyfuss B

orn and living in Haifa.

Education: BA Design, Bezalel Art and Design Academy Jerusalem, M.Sc. Communication, Clark University, Worcester, USA, PhD. Phil. University of Liverpool, GB. Member of the Association of Painters and Sculptors in Israel, and the PPA - Professional Photographers of America.

Realistic color photographer with a style that focuses on seeing with the desire to capture and freeze the passing moment. Searching to combine and balance between an objective description and watching reality from a personal and emotional stand. Her photography exhibits the complex, exciting and mysterious world in which we are living, it is a mix of sharp vision, technical knowledge and vividness. The color serves a double role - to convey reality and as a tool that expresses emotions; color as a language, in which every combination, splash and tone bear a meaning.

She exhibits a wide range of topics: human relations and portraits, dance, still life, scenery and environment, nature and animals. Exhibited twenty solo exhibitions and participated in over 130 group exhibitions in Israel and overseas.

Won several prizes.

Prizes: The international Olympus Competition (1991), The international completion of children’s photography in Poland (1993), Masks in Venice lll, Piccola Galleria Correr, Merit award, 2000, the Hermann Struck prize of the Haifa municipality (2006), the 9th Annual Black & White Spider Awards, Honorable Mention, Wildlife Professional category, 2014.

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David Einav P

hotographer

20 years ago in 1995 there was a demonstration in Kings of Israel.

“I thank each and every one of you that came here to night in person,” Rabin finished speaking and turn to Shimon Peres, they embraced and sang with Miri Aloni “Song of Peace” and at the end of the song Rabin descended the stairs and was assassinated. The attached pictures were taken approximately 10 minutes before the shocking murder and printed in an image size of 60 x 90 cm.

One of the things that shaped generations of Israeli masculinity is agricultural work on the kibbutz. Even those who lived in the city, see movies, read books, envied the reality and stories about the “tzabar” or the “kibutznik,” found the kibbutz performing early wake-up work, while the birds still sleep in the trees and with a the connection to the landand animals, creating a sublime feeling hard to explain in words. Perhaps even making an exception, and I will use here as too large to define it - elation. It’s a feeling that whoever has not experienced a sunrise field, milking the cows or tending the fish ponds, or collecting the poultry, will never know. Besides, the secret of “professional” kibbutz members is known that women like to feel rough hands stiff from work.

David Einav was Born in Israel in 1950 in Kibbutz Beit Alfa and livesthere ever since.

Married with 3 children and grandfather of two. For many years he worked mostly as photo journalist collective press \ the Kibbutzim media and agriculture. Has won numerous awards in photo competiions and participated in exhibitions worldwide.

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Chava Epstein C

hava Epstein, born in Jerusalem and living in Modiin.

Education: B.A. Art department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

Member of the Jerusalem Association of Painters and Sculptors, Israel.

The artist focuses on humans, sometimes in a theatrical encounter. The characters are preoccupied with watching in their inner world and on the outside world that surrounds them, sunk in thoughts. They express the highly dynamic and powerful antithetical emotions of joy and pain. Chava Epstein’s works, which are often interspersed with magical prose, poetry and script she writes, explore a rich variety of worlds and themes, and the media she uses are no less eclectic, ranging from aquarelles, oil, pastels, etching, to ceramics, stones and soft sculpture. Sometimes a combination of image and text, her work beckons the viewer to join a fantastic journey into the lyrical intricacies of life and fantasy, and offers a multitude of intriguing philosophical perspectives.

The artist exhibited in 40 solo exhibitions in Israel and abroad, in which she presented a widely diverse body of work (two of which were housed in the Israel Museum, one in the Museum of Art in Ein Harod and four in Space S Gallery, Tokyo, Japan). She participated in about 30 group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Israel and abroad. She is a graduate of The Jerusalem Author Prose Writing Workshop, led by the authors: Isaac Averbuch Orpaz, Chaim Beer, Shulamit Lapid, and David Grossman. Some of her stories are rooted in reality, but many of them sail into the realms of myth, dream, and imagination. She published eight children and adult books, written and illustrated by her. Four of her books were published in English by Amazon: The Heart’s Melody, A Hidden Spring, The Sky’s Blue Eyes, The Vanishing Point.

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Ivan Ferrer B

orn in Johannesburg, South Africa, lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

I am, first and foremost, a photographer of cultures, capturing the uniqueness of each culture through their people - their unique facial expressions and their street scenes. The immense satisfaction I get when I ‘capture the moment’ in a street scene or when I capture that special expression in a portrait keeps me traveling the world to capture more and more special moments. Although street scenes are by nature un-orderly, aesthetic composition is important to me and that is what characterizes my work. A feature of my street portraits are the expressive, almost haunting eyes of the subject, evoking strong emotion in the viewer. These portraits and my other work can be seen on my website www.ivanferrer.com

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Eunice Figueiredo I

first became an architect: the desire to create beautiful spaces for people to let them be filled with soul through feelings of well being, esthetics and harmony.

As an architect I also work 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 imprinted in stone. We reveal images of cities, cultures and dreams buried under the ground being rediscoveredand re-interpreted through present time eyes. Later on, my self unfolded into the mystery of painting and then I became totally committed to art. As an artist I look for the layers of the mind and the experience of the soul written in one’s bones as a bedrock. In painting I work with layers of color; through this exercise, my thoughts take form as line and color, reflecting ideas, imagination and memories. The painting becomes the repository of this dialogue.

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Solomon Leviev A

s far back as I am able to remember myself, I found myself drawing or sculpting figures. The sources of my

inspiration are numerous and diverse: a teardrop on the cheek of a hungry child in Africa, bloodied conflicts between nations, victims of violence in our region and other parts of the world and in contrast there are sources such as a dancer’s virtuoso movement, joy on the face of a grandfather, Greek mythology, biblical tales, legends, historical characters and events. All of these move me and then, as if by some mysterious hand I find myself compelled to work in my studio and create new forms and rich, complex compositions. I could not be happier when I see the images in my mind take shape before my very eyes.

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Irit Levy B

orn 1957 in Israel.

Education: Hamidrasha Le Omanut (3 and a half years) University of Tel Aviv - Economics. Machon Avni Lives in Southern France and Monaco Work experience: Graphic designer, Graphic art teacher, Art director, Chief Financial Officer.

I am mainly a painter, though I put my hands on every media possible. In 2007 I discovered the world of mosaic and since then I mainly do mosaics. I have participated in numerous group and several solo exhibitions, and won several prizes. My works has been published in a few books and was often blogged by others. In my journey as an artist I touched and played with any material I could lay my hands on. With every new work of art I do, I still learn something new. I keep moving. My work tomorrow will probably not resemble my work of today.

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Ricki Maissy P

ainter and Sculptor.

Born 1957 in Tel Aviv, studied in Avni school of art and The New York Studio School.

Member of the Association of Painters and Sculptors in Israel.

Exhibitions: Ephrat Gallery 2010 Solo Exhibition 2010, Group Exhibitions: He & She Center - Jaffa 2010 Jerusalem For Generations, Beit Yigal Allon - Safed 2010, Center Kstra -Haifa 2009 Jerusalem through the ages at Tzfat 2008, Sunnun Gallery - New York National Art Club 16th Annual Student Show. N.Y.S.S. 1992 Scholarships: New York Studio School Year 1993 Avni Institute Foundation Mitrni year 1986

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Radwan Mansour R

adwan Mansour is an abstract artist who was born in 1961 in Isfiya which located on Mount Carmel, overlooking Haifa and the Mediterranean Sea. He deals with art from the Seventies to the present day. For Radwan, art is an universal language between people and nations, a way of life, an expression of thoughts and feelings and kind of philosophy, an endless living research. In his works he expresses the wild and abstract, reflected in the colors he uses, shades, forms, expressing happiness, sadness, protest and contrasts. In his creations we can see creations and growths. Radwan believes in humans and puts it in the center of his activities, one of his projects is to set up a forum of artists called “Together� which presents artistic, social and cultural activities reaching out to the community with exhibitions in Israel and abroad. In this forum there is pluralism, it includes women, men, painters, sculptors, compliance with wood and more. This Forum assembles weekly displays of artworks, analyzes them while stressing the human and cultural aspects bringing a mutual enrichment. This Forum promotes artistic and cultural meetings at every level in different places and conducts mutual relations with additional organizations in Israel and abroad.

Radwan is active and member of the painters and Sculptors Association of Haifa and the North and active in other art and cultural NGOs bridging social gaps through painting and art in general.

Exhibited in many solo exhibitions, and participated in over 100 group exhibitions in Israel and overseas as well as many painting workshops in Israel and overseas.

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Yoav Netta Y

oav Netta, PhD - A painter, musician and conductor.

Dr. Netta was born in Kibbutz Gal-Ed to parents who met in Israel after emigrating from Germany during World War II. Married to Livi and lives in Hadera, on the coastline of Israel.

Dr. Netta graduated Oranim college in musical education and pursued his Master degree in music and musicology in Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

He received his PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, in Music Education.

Yoav’s painting career started at the age of ten when he won a national painting competition and won a bicycle. Personal bicycles were not allowed back then in the kibbutz and Yoav traded his prize for a guitar, which he still plays to this day. When he was sixteen he founded in kibbutz Gal-Ed a singing group, which performed his original songs. The songs were broadcasted on the “First Applauses” show on the national radio. Since then he has composed original music for many plays, presentations and movies, contributing his part to the soundtrack of the young state of Israel. Yoav did his military service in the legendary NACHAL singing group with Zila Dagan, Ofira Gluska and others. Dr. Netta has represented the state of Israel on the international stage with singing groups he has conducted in many festivals across the world. Through these years Yoav has carried his painting passion, which followed him through his life journey. In the last five years Yoav has painting tirelessly, with a great sensation of happiness and fulfilment, expressing his great creative talent. Many of the motives of Yoav’s musical career find their way to his paintings. His figurative/realistic paintings show a “melodic” line that goes through the shapes, lines and figures in his work. These are also reflected in the choices of colors and scenes he chooses to paint.Yoav’s work was first presented to the public in 2013. Since then his paintings have been exhibited in more than 12 shows, including dedicated shows to Yoav’s work, and in several galleries. In the past year his work has been presented in galleries worldwide with growing interest and demand.The original paintings presented in this show, as well as reproductions are available for sale in any requested size.

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Shlomit Raday S

culptor Metal mesh is a unique, unusual material. It offers an opportunity to investigate not only the relations of shape and form but also those between inside and outside, separation and connection.

Metal mesh has captured my heart and in the last few years I focused my work on this art form.

The simplicity of the material, the way it surrenders to me, the surprise of creating something from nothing and the transparency within and among the images inspire me. Sometimes it is the material it elf, the mesh, that represents the concepts around which the exhibit revolves.

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David Tsinman B

orn and living in Haifa, Israel

Education: Barch, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Classic painting techniques (oil and watercolor) - Smadar Katz Painting Center I am a realistic artist using traditional techniques such as charcoal drawing, oil painting and photography. I find out inspiration in subjects as: figure, portrait and urban landscape. Exhibited a solo exhibition, and participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and overseas.

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Yaffa (Politi) Wainer Y

affa Wainer (Politi) is an Israeli impressionist-naturalist artist (Born 1949 in Herzliya Israel).

Art has always been a central part of her life. She gained most of her formal artistic knowledge in Israel at several academic and art institutes (Tel-Aviv University, Open University and Ramat Hasharon Institute of Art). BA in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Participated in workshops with Israeli artists. While living in the Philippines in the 1990s, she began painting professionally. Her mentor there was Filipino artist Roger San Miguel, known as “Father of Filipino Impressionism”. “He tutored me and exposed me to the magical world of impressionism-naturalism,” she said.

During her stay in the Philippines Yaffa participated at several workshops with Philippines and Asian artists, and traveled to many Far East countries and their influence is apparent in her paintings. Currently, Yaffa focuses on Israeli sceneries. She is a member of the ICU International Association of Arts, the Israel Artists Association of Plastic Arts, the Who’s Who Art Club International and Herzeliya artist association. In the last 10 years Yaffa exhibits her works internationally in solo and group exhibitions, among them the National Art Museum Cluj, Romania, Galleries in Holland, Oslo Norway, Paris France, London UK, Canada, Barcelona, Madrid, Vienna Austria, Finland and Israel.

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Myron Zoran R

aised in Haifa (Israel). Since a youth, walking, trekking, exploring the environment and painting. Studied biology and worked on fish-breeding research while painting always had a considered role. Since retiring, painting has become a main occupation, including a significant number of group and solo exhibitions, and a member of the Israel Painters & Sculptors Association.

Work is based on observations of surrounding visually appealing compositions like a certain view from a particularly interesting angle, fascinating. light-shadow interactions resulting from unique combinations of sunlight and cloud or prosaic still-life items with intriguing changes resulting from corrosive processes.

The composition as - is is applied to paper or canvas, emphasizing the visually interesting aspects from the point of view of shape, color or texture.

In the course of time the areas that have engaged the attention have expanded from still lifes and view from home, towards cityscapes of Haifa with The Stairs. Further - landscapes of Mount Carmel and the Galilee with its ancient olive trees, desert landscapes, and lastly – reflections.

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