Itamar Freed VOLTA NY 2017 Catalogue

Itamar Freed

VOLTA NY 2017 BOOTH C3

Itamar Freed Born in 1987 in Manhattan, NY, Freed received his B.F.A from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2012. He is currently doing his M.F.A at the Royal College of Arts, Photography Program, London.

Freed conjoins direct photography that depicts artificial, staged figures with realistic representations of portraits and landscapes. The regions of photography in which he works move between three expanses: the Israeli wilderness & nature, the Natural History Museum, New York and his home studio in Israel. The encounter between the three territories – the wild, the cultured and the staged, creates a deceptive sensation. Freed’s photographic aesthetics draw upon a return to the classic painting of art history, seeking to create for it a kind of contemporary photographic variation. Through the use of color, natural illumination at its extremes, via open composition and multiple vanishing points that simultaneously draw the observer’s eye to different foci of various events, the borders between dream and wakening are blurred, Freed’s photographic ambience exists as if in a threshold zone, beyond the bounds of specific time and place. Using the photography medium to preserve, to freeze, to grasp life and to seize time.

Freed’s work has been showcased in solo exhibitions in the Ramat-Gan Museum of Art, Israel, and Feinberg Projects Gallery in Tel Aviv. His works were also shown in “NordArt 2016”, International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany, Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem, the Bezalel Gallery, Jerusalem etc. Freed has been the winner of the 2016 Clore - Bezalel Scholarship & a full Grant for a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Arts, London and the 2012 “EPSON” first prize for excellence in the art of photography. Freed’s works are in private and public collections worldwide including the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Collection, USA and the Clore Collection, London, UK and other private collections in Israel and abroad.

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Golden Wreath Wattle, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in.

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Bush, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in.

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Woman in Green, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X43.25 in.

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Girl in Pine, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in.

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Girl II, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 65X43.25 in.

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Arizona #1, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X55 in.

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Arizona #2, 2015 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X55 in.

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Feeding Time, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in.

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Invasive Species, 2014 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X43.25 in.

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Burning Tree, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 65X43.25 in.

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Red Flowers, 2016 Inkjet print on archival paper 23.5X35.5 in.

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Red View, 2014 Inkjet print on archival paper 39.4X59 in.

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Man & Crows in The Olive Grove, 2013 Inkjet print on archival paper 39.4X59 in For inquiries please click here

Woman & Crane, 2014 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X43.25 in.

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Bird watching, 2017 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in.

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Jungle, 2017 Inkjet print on archival paper 43.25X65 in.

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Itamar Freed Born in Manhattan, NY, 1987. Lives & works in Israel / London

Education 2016 – ongoing

Selected Group Exhibitions M.F.A - Royal College of Arts, Photography Program, London, United Kingdom. (20162018)

2007-2012 B.F.A - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Department of Photography, Jerusalem

Prizes & Awards 2016

2012

Winner of the 2016 Clore - Bezalel Scholarship & a full Grant for a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Arts, London “EPSON” first prize award winner for Excellence in the Art of Photography, Israe

Solo Exhibitions

2017

BFAMI 70th Gala, Christie’s Auction House, London, UK, Jan. 2017

2017

Private Moment in Public, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, Feb 2017 (upcoming)

2016

NordArt 2016, International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany

2016

Musrara Mix, Musrara gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

2016

ArTi Art Fair at Tiroche”, Herzelia, Israel

2016

Bread & Roses, Castiel Gallery, Tel Aviv

2015

NordArt 2015, International Art Exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany

2015

Journey between the Stars, Musrara gallery, Jerusalem

2015

No Time, Ramat-Gan Museum for Israeli Art, Israel

2014

The International Photography Festival, Israel

2015

Birds of Paradise, Gitler &____ Gallery, New York, USA

2013

Bread & Roses, Castiel Gallery, Tel Aviv

2014

Birds of Paradise, Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2013

Surface Currents, FEINBERG PROJECTS Gallery, Tel Aviv

2013

Memory, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv

2013

Promising artist of 2013 (Exhibition) Calcalist , Tel Aviv

2013

Inventory, Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv

2012

OBJECTS, Spaceship Gallery, Tel Aviv

Collections

2012

UNDER, Bezalel Gallery, Jerusalem

Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Collection, Clore Collection and additional private collection in Israel and abroad.

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