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ARTISTS

Dan Nusinov    Eitan Portnoy    Yael Avi-Yonah    Anthony Behar    Ron Alon Cohen    Yitzchok Moully    Avi Meir

Philip Shalam    Aaron Siskind    Chana Rosa Petrikovsky    Lily Hoyda    Tiggy Ticehurst   Gadi Nusinov   Ma'ayan

Asaf Matarasso     Zohar Avgar     Danielle Faigenbaum     Shira Toren

 

Shira Toren

Shira Toren is an emerging American-Israeli artist. Born in Tel-Aviv, She moved to New York City in 1978 to study fine art and design. She received her BFA from the Pratt Institute and an Associate Degree in Art Therapy from The New School, both in NYC.

Ms. Toren is currently working in her studio in New York City and her Summer studio in Hudson, New York. Toren has studied at The Art Student League under the guidance of renowned American painters William Scharf, Knox Martin Bruce Dorfman, Ronnie Landfield and Frank O'Cain. She is the recipient of the Henry Matisse Estate Scholarship, and the Blue Dot Award from The Arts Student League. Ms. Toren worked as a creative art therapist with foster care children, and young women who suffered from eating disorders. Helping them to understand and resolve difficulties through art and the use of a variety of materials. She is an innovator of various techniques in the field. She also worked facilitating art projects with children in New York City Public School.

Danielle Faigenbaum

Danielle Faigenbaum is an Israeli born photographer. After 2 years service in the Israeli Army, as a foreign liaison agent, Danielle started studying photography in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 2005. After two years in the photography department she traveled to NY to take part in an exchange student program at the School of Visual Arts. Exploring the possibilities of the Arts in New York City has influenced her decision to live in NY. Danielle is currently earning her BFA at the School of Visual Arts. 

Ms. Faigenbaum approaches photography from both an intellectual and emotional perspective that conveys her true passion for her work.  Combining both methods of staged and documentary photography, her work is extremely sensitive and deals very profoundly with human relations and emotions such as pain, loneliness, fear and love, with maturity and subtleties that are quite rare. 

In January 2010 Danielle traveled to Poland in order to follow her own roots, researching her historical and cultural heritage and to explore the meaning of victim and victimizer in this context. 

We have been commanded to “Zachor” to “remember” past events. Her close relationship with her grandparents as a child has increased the propensity to embrace such a commitment. 
Her photos are not a documentary; rather, they are a translation of reality, which has once been experienced. Death is a central motif in the shaping of memory, the physical end, the place of burial. 

“I have tried to re-examine the Holocaust as a historical event, as a collective component, as a memory, and transform it from a national myth into a personal story. The Holocaust is no longer the property of a nation, it is a story that any individual can understand and relate to”. 

Zohar Avgar

Born and raised in Israel, Zohar Avgar is a graphic artist, he was first introduced to the field of graphic design and print production while serving in the Israeli Air-Force Print and Design Unit as pre-print department manager.

In 2004, Zohar moved to New York City to complete his education at City College Graphic Design and Multimedia BFA Program. Zohar eventually received a full-scholarship for academic excellence in fine arts and was also the recipient of the National MediaAction/DigitalAction award from the Advertising Club of New York.

Zohar’s work as a graphic designer includes promotional material production for large corporations such as Prudential Douglas Elliman and A&E Investment Fund. In Addition, Zohar has created brand identity and marketing campaigns for entrepreneurs, as well as small and emerging businesses.

For his art, Zohar utilizes x-ray technology to explore symbolic and ubiquitous items. Zohar’s showcase, What’s the Matter?, enables the observer to experience compositions of common objects in a new fashion, eliminating its emblematic layer. In his spare time, Zohar enjoys photography, cooking and baking.

Asaf Matarasso

Israeli born Asaf Matarasso bought his first camera at the age of 14 and has been using it since. His travels have taken him to India, China, Angola, Tel Aviv, Cuba, Vietnam, Rome, New York, Amsterdam and now Paris, where he is based for the last two years.

In his work "order\mess" Matarasso is playing with the contrast and harmony between chaos and order in our every day to day life, drawing the lines that connect the two opposites, trying to remind us how controversial a single second can be.

The project is divided into pairs that complete and emphasize each other visually and idealistically, showing well organized chaos and schematic patterns dipped in madness.

Matarasso has had exhibitions mainly in Paris and Israel, this is his first show in the States

Ma’ayan

An award winning oil painter, Ma’ayan has exhibited nationally for the past 11 years and recently was invited to participate in the Florence Biennale. Primarily known for her figurative subjects and landscapes, she has traveled the world, painting in Aix en Provence, Bali, Mexico, Vermont, and other places of light and inspiration.

In our world of chaos, the light on images is always moving, colors shift, expressions change. Oil paint is the best medium for Ma’ayan as she looks to capture this experience. With impulsive applications of color and varied opacity, she begins to layer her imagery. She changes her mind, redirects a stroke and moves throughout the painting like a dance. Shapes appear then disappear; images from earlier strokes remain, underscoring a newer gesture, another focus, creating a visual transparency with movement and depth. This process of working through the material to find the taproot—the true source of the subject – is what she enjoys most.

Collectors have commented that spending time viewing Ma’ayan’s paintings leads them to a deeper connection with the work – images and emotions emerge where they had not been noticed earlier. A deeper beauty is revealed.

Gadi Nusinov

Gad Nusinov was born in Israel in 1956, when he was 25 he moved to the United State. He started painting when he was 17 years old. He studied Graphic Design in Bat Yam in Israel. After moving to the United State he studied Fine Arts in The Art Students League of New York City. He also got a degree in computer science at Barnard M. Baruch College in New York City.

His paintings and prints were exhibited and sold in Tel Aviv and the United State in various galleries. In 1986 he started working for the Metropolitan Museum producing various reproduction of Egyptian, Chinese and Italian sculptures as well as reproduction of various paintings. In 1990 he started working for S & P / McGraw-Hill as a senior system analyst as well as designing computer graphic art for McGraw-Hill‘s web pages using various computer graphic packages while continuing painting in his spare time. He had a few articles written about his art work, one article was published by Mc Graw-Hill and others were published in the local news papers. He started teaching art at the beginning of 2009.

Gad Nusinov has mastered flexibility of style and technical control of several medias and styles. His style and technique where greatly influenced by Claude Monet, Van Gogh and other impressionist of that period. His painting, sketching and prints include portraits and landscape as well as computer generated art. In the last 4 years he devoted all his time to his art.

Tiggy Ticehurst

Tiggy Ticehurst came to art quite late in life. Born in England, he moved to France, where he worked for eleven years in real estate and advertising. There was some dabbling in art, but never enough time to excel. In 2000, Tiggy met English artist Bill Barrell in St. Barts. When Bill invited Tiggy to New York, Tiggy accepted. Eventually, Tiggy took over Bill's large studio in Jersey City with its 28-foot ceilings and spectacular views of Manhattan; the problem was, Manhattan was where Tiggy wanted to be. Moving to the Upper East Side, he set up his display on Fifth Avenue, in front of the Metropolitan Museum, and that's where he has both painted and sold for the past seven and a half years. On his second day on the sidewalk, a man from South Beach in Miami bought a 14-foot work called “Shower Time.” That was the first real painting that Tiggy sold, and he has never looked back.

Now Tiggy is a fixture near the Met, his bright drawings and paintings attracting young and old of all nationalities. Many who have bought drawings return again, sometimes years later. Tiggy has, over the course of his time on Fifth Avenue, sold tens of thousands of his art works, from smaller prints at $20 to larger acrylic paintings for up to $12,000. On a nice summer's day, Tiggy can set up shop as early as 4 a.m. and work until 9 in the evening, but he is out there in all seasons, good weather and bad. When he isn't talking to people who stop to look at pictures, he is painting – vibrant New York street scenes, characters, animals and even relatives, including his Great Grandfather Bamberger with his two dogs. Once in a while, Tiggy wishes that he could paint with oils on canvas (impossible in the open air) or sculpt with all kinds of different materials, but he also recognizes that his interaction with the public and the support he gets from friends and admirers has been very valuable.

“Sitting in a studio all the time,” he says, “I would be pulling my hair out.” "Painting is my life now"

Lily Hoyda

Lily Hoyda was born on September 9, 1989, in Great Neck, NY. She attended Great Neck schools and graduated in June, 2007, from John L. Miller North High School. She demonstrated an affinity for drawing and sketching at a very early age, as early as pre-nursery school. Although her earlier interest in art was greatly influenced by Japanese animation, her style is constantly evolving and maturing as she experiences different media and subject matter.

In her junior year of high school, she was the recipient of The Nicole Krauss Creative Writing Award, which is a two-fold scholarship awarded annually to two junior students whom show exemplary creative abilities in writing. The second part of the scholarship involved both students, in their senior year, collaborating with their creative writing teacher to form a compilation into a book of their prose, poetry and artwork. This collaboration culminated in a book-signing event in the spring at the school’s end-of-the-year art exhibit and music recital.

Ms. Hoyda had the opportunity for her first showing from December 9, 2007 – January 3, 2008, at the Great Neck Arts Center, a not-for-profit visual and performing arts center, in Great Neck, NY. She exhibited various paintings and sketches under the supervision of Regina Gil, Executive Director of the GNAC, Georgia Vahue, Director of Development of the GNAC, and David Benrimon, a well-known New York fine art dealer and investor, founder of David Benrimon Fine Art LLC, and Galerie Mystinquette, both located in Great Neck, NY. Ms. Hoyda shared the exhibit with another young artist, Chana Rosa Petrikovsky, also of Great Neck.

In September, 2009, Ms. Hoyda will return as a junior to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, affiliated with Tufts University, in Boston, Massachusetts, where she is following her passion for animation.
 


Chana Rosa Petrikovsky

Chana Rosa Petrikovsky is a young artist whose painting talent began to emerge at the precocious age of one when she started drawing profiles of birds. Born in 1991 into a Jewish orthodox home to a father who is a physician and a mother who is an artist and singer, she was homeschooled until the age of six in a household where Jewish traditions are highly respected. During this time, a love of drawing was instilled in her, as her mother would often depict the subject matter being taught by drawing images. Chana Rosa’s talent is eclectic, depicting a variety of themes using different materials including acrylic, oil pastels, charcoal, watercolors, oil paints, and gouache. She exhibited her artwork several times in local galleries. Chana Rosa has a strong artistic sense and a yearning for spirituality which expressed itself in the luminous images of her childhood work. And now, as a young adult, her art reflects a quest for authenticity and is shaped by an awareness of the absurdity of a confused world and the desire to break through its walls towards a higher consciousness.


Aaron Siskind

Born in New York’s Lower East Side, Siskind started photographing after receiving a camera for a wedding present in 1929. A member of the Photo League in the 1930s, he began as a social documentary photographer, with such series as Dead End: The Bowery and Harlem Document (1932-40). In the early 1940’s, feeling spent with social documentry, he started taking pictures of simple found objects, ultimately emphasizing the photograph as an abstract form of expression and an aesthetic end in itself, thus radicalizing the medium much as his abstract-expressionist painter friends such as Kline, Motherwell, and de Kooning did in revolutionizing their medium. Siskind taught elementary school English in New York City's public schools for 25 years before becoming recognized as a photographer and then a gifted pioneer of photographic education.


Philip Shalam

Born in Switzerland to Egyptian parents, Philip Shalam was raised in London, where he studied printing and paper manufacturing at the London College of Printing. Twenty-five years ago, Philip began his collection of graphics, in particular posters, an art form reflected in Philip's photographs. The strong colors, sharp diagonals, geometric forms and architectural themes all hark back to those early forms of eye-catching advertising. Eighteen years ago, Philip moved to New York City. Travels to Eastern Anatolia, Tel Aviv, Marrakesh, Milan, London, the grand prairies of America's southwest, Beijing, and, of of-course New York, provided an opportunity to express his outstanding approach to space and color through a lens of his own. A wide array of subject matter is endowed with new meaning and beauty through Philip's eye.

Philip Shalam offers us reality from a unique perspective, illuminating a moment in time and bathing it in shades that often escape our notice.


Avi Meir

Avi Meir (Israeli, b. 1973) moved to New York more than a decade ago. He imagined an adventure of opportunities beyond his homeland of Israel. Born with business acumen and a natural leader, Avi is an accomplished entrepreneur, at one time running an iron works production company. Today, he directs a growing business in design and construction. Designing and creating involves functional objects, like furniture, and small to large scale projects in space planning and building. His way of envisioning projects are with quick freehand sketches. His traditional approach to come up with ideas for design and art comes with a sense of instant response to execute it, can be discovered anywhere from a distinctive piece of woodbecoming furniture, details of glass doors, to a full scaled staircase fabricated with steel. Believing in the
structure of his work, immediate and spontaneous, is his art coming to life with responsibility, unity and understanding. This is the imagined adventure he observes in daily labor. Constantly enterprising and ambitious, Avi continues to find a ceaseless passion to practice with art. Within his labors, works of art include photography and sculpture. When weather permits, he skydives and other times, he devotes to handwork creation of his sculpture art, Veshavu Banim Le’Gvulam, which is dedicated to kidnapped Israeli soldiers and commemorated to the 60th year of Israel’s independence. When asked how creating this artwork feels to him, he replied, “…this sculpture [is] my celebration of honor and anguish towards [Israel]. I endure the uncertainty…every day, but also revel in the survival of a nation amidst conflict and controversy.”
 
The idea of Veshavu Banim Le'Gvulam was drawn from a reaction to events stirring society in Israel, most notably the soldiers kidnapped in recent warfare. Veshavu banim le’gvulam means the children will return to their own border” in Hebrew, originating from a verse in Jeremiah (31:15-17): There is hope for your future, says G--, and your children shall come again to their own border.


Yitzchok Moully

Like his art, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzchok Moully is composed of many layers.

At a recent showing of his work at a small, brightly lit gallery in Lambertville, N.J., Moully – who weaves through the large crowd of mingling art fans and community members – stands out in a bright pink yarmulke, orange socks and dark suit accentuated with a green tie. His paintings, likewise, cast a sea of color upon the patrons of the ArtisZen Arts gallery who came to the post-Shabbat Saturday night event.

"Yitzchok has a fantastic eye for color," says David Golderg, who describes himself as an early fan of Moully. "He captures moments in time on canvas."

Although influenced by many sources, Moully, who might be better known by some people as the youth director at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, N.J., prefers the silkscreen medium and use of every-day objects that defined American pop art in the 1960s. ArtisZen owner Brian Hanck compared Moully's technique to that of Andy Warhol, but whereas the iconic artist featured cans of soup and pictures of famous people, Moully relies on images from Chasidic Jewish culture: His work displays Chanukah dreidels, kiddush cups, rabbis praying and Chasidim dancing.

One of his most impressive pieces, Williamsburg, N.Y., features New York City's Williamsburg bridge as a divider between a Brooklyn neighborhood's two worlds – a Chasidic community on one side and an artist's colony on the other. You can clearly see in the painting a metaphor for Moully's unique station in life.

"I feel comfortable in both worlds," says Moully. "When I go to galleries, it gives me energy to paint, to express my message.

"And then I go find a minyan to pray with and a kosher pizza shop to eat at."

The 29-year-old photographer and father of three never attended art school, but has been painting for about three years. He uses his own digital photographs, which he hand prints and screens above two layers of painted background. Two years ago, he began exhibiting in galleries and community centers in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. After the ArtisZen showing – located across the Delaware River from the frequent Warhol haunt of New Hope, Pa. – Moully's work will be on display next month at the J. Klaynberg Gallery in New York. An artist's reception there will take place April 3.

Moully's local Jewish community were his first supporters. After he completed his first piece, he brought it to local professional artist Marian Slepian. She was immediately impressed.

It was "infused with all the warmth and joy that Chasidim have," says Slepian, one of the guests at ArtisZen. In addition, his style of photo reproduction done entirely by hand "is so new that you can't classify it yet. It's a new world to me."

ArtisZen owner Brian Hanck is thrilled with the evening's turnout and believes Moully will find success both within the Jewish community and beyond. He says many non-Jewish customers have purchased copies of Moully's Tree of Life, which can be appreciated universally.

"I like to think I'm bringing the next Warhol character into the community," notes Hanck. "People get [Moully's work]. They smile when they see his stuff. He's applying the Warhol tradition and making it his own."

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Ron Alon Cohen

Born in Haifa in 1957. Ron studied at Bezalel and was influenced by the old Bezalel art of its founders - the opposite of the usual modern artistic trend. At the age of 20 he became religious and at 30 moved to Safed. The landscapes that are seen in his pictures arouse longings for the beautiful and holy Biblical land of Israel.
 


Anthony Behar

Born in London England, Anthony Behar grew up in Paris and began taking pictures at the age of 9 when he received a Polaroid camera as a gift from his parents.  Moving to New York City in 1977 and enthralled with taking pictures, he started a dog walking service in an Upper East Side building with 609 apartments and quickly raised enough money to purchase his first “real” camera, a Nikon FE. 
 
At 15 he took his first international photography trip to Scandinavia, and at 16 landed a 3-day internship with a Vogue photographer, which led to a 10 yr working relationship and lifelong friendship.  After 12 years of being a photographer’s assistant, he returned to college and earned a Bachelors’ degree in Journalism and then quickly went back to his photographic roots after graduation, to become Studio Manager and Photo Archivist to celebrity fashion photographer.  While on a book project for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Tony began to see a greater value in documentary and reportage work than in fashion, and left the fashion world to work as a photojournalist. 
 
As a photographer Tony has worked on such projects as:
• Emigrant life: a year long photo essay on a Chinese family in Queens New York as they adapt to American culture and struggle with economic hardships.
• Banda Aceh: where he met up with the ICRC to document the plight of Tsunami survivors on the 1 year Anniversary.
• Social & Cultural Dichotomies: imagery which compares & contrast the perceived similarities of Japanese, Indonesian and Chinese culture, but which are offset by the scale of their economies.
 
Each project’s theme consists of exploring cultural pillars such as food, sex religion and relevant rituals, protocols and contrasting mores, and the adaptive methods to a new environment.
 
A seasoned world traveler, and speaking 5 languages, Tony is currently living and working in New York City, syndicated through WireImage and FilmMagic and does high-end celebrity digital retouching for Getty Images between assignments.


Dan Nusinov

Dan Nusinov was born and raise in Israel. He studied at the Art Student League of New York.
Dan's paintings convey images of people and their relationship to their environment through solitude and introspection.


Eitan Portnoy

The paintings of Eitan Portnoy's draw much of their inspiration from Byzantine mosaics and icons, Persian miniatures, and arabesques.
 
He is the wandering raconteur, weaving together different epochs and religions; creating contemporary images whose symbols and characters are plucked from ancient myths and legends, and the stories of the bible.
 
In 2006, New York’s UJC chose Eiitan Portnoy’s painting for the cover of all its stationary
 
History
An ex-television news broadcaster, his education includes: Cinema & Theatre Studies at Tel Aviv University (1978 –80).
Commercial Art at New York Tech, NYC
Photography & Painting at the School of Visual Arts
(1981- 82)
Religion & Theology, Jerusalem
Etching & Lithography at City & Guilds of London Art School (1994 – 95).
Eitan Amir currently lives and works in London.
 
Quotes
“Eitan Portnoys work is a contemporary documentation of the experience and symbols of Jewish religion and kabala”
 
                                                  Anat Koren, Alondon  magazine
Exhibitions
Eitan has exhibited at the following venues:
1982 - Spring Street Gallery, New York Group Show
1989 - Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa Group Show
1993 - Beit Shamir, Ramat Hasharon Solo Show
1994 - Beit Zamir, Ramat Hasharon Solo Show
1995 - Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv Solo Show
1996 - Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv Group Show
1998 - Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv Solo Show
1999 - Thomas Corman Arts, London Group Show
1999 - Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv Group Show
2000 - Tel Aviv Opera House Group Show
2001 - Mapu East Gallery, Tel Aviv Solo Show
2002 - Zman LeOmanout Gallery, Tel Aviv Group Show
2003 - Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv Group Show
2004 - Thomas Corman Arts, London Group Show
2006 - (9th & 10th December) St. Stephen's, Pond Street, London Solo Show

 


Yael Avi Yonah


Yael Avi was born in Jerusalem, a graduate of Bezalel Academy of Art. Her father was the distinguished archaeologist and historian, Michael Avi-Yonah, who provided her with the rich background in art, archeology and bible, which emanates from her works. Thousands of her prints and serigraphs on Jerusalem landscapes and biblical subjects have been sold throughout the world. Her series of oil portraits of 15 great contemporary Israeli authors was exhibited at the Jerusalem International Book Fair in 1984 and abroad. In 1987 she completed a series of paintings on the 12 Tribes for the Yad L'Mordechai synagogue in Jerusalem. Since 1988 she has been working on a series of works in oil and mixed media on canvas and wood in a new and original style of anaglyfic art . Her themes are inspired by Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah and include the Angels of the Divine Chariot , the Four Supernal Worlds , Jerusalem in the Messianic Age , the New City and other prophetic visions. Her works were on display in the Jewish Museum in London, as well as galleries in Israel and abroad. She lives in Jerusalem with her husband, the artist, Dov Lederberg.

ART INSPIRED BY KABBALAH AND SCIENCE

Dissatisfied with the limitations imposed by traditional canvas, Yael and Dov have created a body of work which attempts to portray the infinite reality of the universe, as expounded upon in Kabbalah teachings. The artists' colorful paintings, serigraphs & prints teem with life. Their art shimmers with inner movement, as waves of intense color radiate from modalities of supernal states.

Dov Lederberg grew up in the Philadelphia area and began his involvement in the arts at Haverford College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Fine Arts, concentrating on the experimental film, and became an active filmmaker within The New American Underground. One of his works, entitled "Eargogh", an interpretation of the life of Vincent Van Gogh starring Jack Smith and Marie Menken, was widely screened at the time, including the Canyon Cinema in Berkeley. Between 1970 and 1994 he worked as an independent film director, mainly for Israel Television, making documentary and educational films, including some of the best documentaries ever made on Reb Schlomo. Since 1983 Dov has been deeply involved in using new art mediums and techniques to express the subtle ideas of Jewish mystical teachings and meditation. He has created many original paintings and prints inspired by the Hebrew letters in the scribal style, as well as fractal visions of angelic beings, the Dynamics of Marriage and Kabbalah Mandalas. His current work is involved with finding gestalt paradigms for Dialogues.. His paintings and video art are exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Israel.

Yael Avi-Yonah was born in Jerusalem and is a graduate of Bezalel Academy of Art. Her father was the distinguished archaeologist and historian, Michael Avi-Yonah, who provided her with the rich background in art, archeology and bible which emanates from her many works on Jerusalem landscapes and biblical themes. Her series of oil portraits of 15 great contemporary Israeli authors was exhibited at the Jerusalem International Book Fair in 1984 and abroad. In 1987 she completed a series of paintings on the 12 Tribes for the Yad L‘ Mordechai synagogue in Jerusalem. Since 1988 she has been working on a series of works on canvas in a new and original style of anaglyfic art. Her themes are inspired by Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah and include the Angels of the Divine Chariot, the Four Supernal Worlds, Jerusalem in the Messianic Age and other prophetic visions. Her works have been on display in the Jewish Museum in London, as well as galleries in Israel and abroad.

Artists’ Portfolios & Reviews Online: www.art.net/TheGallery/Vision/ 

 

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