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I was born in Israel and received a Master of Fine Arts from a joint program of The New York Studio School and Parsons School of Design in NYC in the early eighties. Since then, I have lived in Israel, NYC, in State College, PA and now in East Haddam. My art has been integrated into my life as one of many threads. As an artist I explore my life journey.
The process of creation is just as important to me as the finished result. I am working towards an authentic statement of my experience of this earth, through the materials and through my subject matter. I see the world as a dynamic interactive conversation. I’m not trying to simplify what I see but to portray that complexity of shape, color, light, movement and meaning. This approach unites my painterly works, my collages and my sculptures. Each work encompasses an amalgam of experiences. I try to leave the same ambiguity in my work as I find in life. I am attracted to complex landscapes. As I try to make sense of them, my eyes shift, focusing on this part or that, zooming in and out. I convey this process, of making sense, in my paintings. There is not one focus. I experience the landscape as if I am walking through it with my eyes. Yet, there is an illusion of unity in the same way that we tend to view reality as a unity, even when our perception is scattered. My collages describe trance journeys, like dreamscapes. Initially confusing, the images flow like a video transposed onto a static surface, creating meaning through the juxtaposition of the images. In my sculptures one also gets this sense of multiplicity through the movement in the form. My sculptures do not reference objects. They are dynamic movement in static form, referencing my longtime Tai Chi practice. My photos tend to be spontaneous – another form of discovery. The photograph reveals what is there. |
