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Yigal Ozeri
AnimaSinger Gallery Sept. 11—Nov. 9 Opening Reception Sept. 11, 5:30–8 p.m. Born in Israel in 1948, Yigal Ozeri has become an artist of internationally recognized achievement and significance. Beginning in the early 1990s, Ozeri — frustrated by the conceptual and stylistic frameworks that define contemporary art — turned to the Baroque extravagance and masterful techniques of the Golden Age of Spanish painting: Velazquez, Zurburran and El Greco. His new-found embrace of the human figure led to remarkable series of archetypically powerful images of women.
In the past twenty years, Ozeri has created a new imagery of the female — one that usurps the conventional kinds of representation in Western art. The exhibition Anima traces the evolution and persistence of this journey. The “anima,” according to Carl Jung, is the personification of all feminine psychological tendencies within a man. The “anima” leads him into unexplored depths of feeling, relationship and empathy.
Yigal Ozeri is represented in numerous public and private collections in Israel, Europe and America. In 2005 he was the subject of an exhibition entitled Four Seasons. Curated by Mordechai Omer, it was one of the largest, most ambitious surveys organized by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Avraham Hay
Face to Face: Portraits of Israeli ArtistsCooper Balcony Sept. 11—Nov. 9 Opening Reception Sept. 11, 5:30–8 p.m. Continuing the year-long honoring of Israel’s 60th Anniversary, Avraham Hay — Face to Face: Portraits of Israeli Artists is a collection of black-and-white photographs that depict the lives and work of Hay’s fellow Israeli artists; it was previously displayed at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2005.
Hay has been photographing his colleagues since the mid-seventies; by portraying artists in their own studios and among their own work, his images offer a perspective on the ways in which personality traits and lifestyle choices influence the creative process. Hay’s own self-portrait, taken with the aid of a mirror, is included in the exhibit.
Avraham Hay began his career as a military photographer in the Israeli Defense Forces. After military duty, he went on to complete studies in photography and archaeology at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and the Polytechnic School of London. Hay’s portraits have been displayed in the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan and elsewhere.