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Natalie Bettelheim and Sharon Michaeli
HOWL
Screening of U.S. Premiere
January 11, 2012
1:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
8:45 p.m.
Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street
An intriguing hand-drawn animated short featuring a "wild child" wolf girl and her loving mother.
Howl:
Winner, Best Student Film, ASIFA Award, 2011
Winner, Best Student Film, Animix, Tel-Aviv cinematheque, 2011
Special Mention, Haifa International Film Festival, 2011
For more information click here.
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Tal Sznicer and Shay Arick
Sys(x)tem
IndieScreen CineClub
Splatterpool Artspace
138 Bayard Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
January 13 - February 5, 2012
Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm
Opening Reception: January 13, 8pm
Sys(x)tem is a multidisciplinary exhibition with the common thread of a probing deconstructive process. It seeks to provide a conversational, playground context for the invited artists to make observations and pose questions on the function and dysfunction of systems with which we interface. If we consider the definition of system to be a whole compounded by several parts, the artists are here attempting to insert themselves as a component of disruption. But rather than disruptions at random (as in natural mutation), these are made in a deliberate fashion with focused intention. Through methods of intervention, the artists may succeed in revealing fresh insight into familiar questions within the contemporary art discourse concerning reality versus representation. Ideally, the resulting statements made here will not be seen as critical in either a positive or negative value; but rather, viewers will be challenged to be more aware of their interaction with systems in our digital and physical environments.
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Tamarh Hirschl
January 6, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
IndieScreen CineClub
285 Kent Ave (at South 2nd St)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
Plot is a surreal look at the turbulent relationship between modern culture and the natural environment.The work is a pastiche of media, with live actors interacting with roto-scoped nature and urban architectural footage. Plot presents a world where the boundaries between workers within our consumer economy and terrorists annihilating our natural resources have become blurred. The overall feel of the film, punctuated by my drawings and sculptures, and a haunting, experimental score by Dave Salerno, serves to highlight a dystopian vision of society that should come as a disquieting warning to mankind for the future.
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Rona Yefman, Lecture
Thursday, December 15, 7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street (2nd and 3rd Ave), 3rd Floor
Q & A to follow the discussion.
Rona Yefman was born in Israel, and currently lives and works in New York City. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2009 and her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem) in 1999. She is the recipient of the Ingeborg Bachmann Scholarship, established by Anselm Kiefer and awarded by the Wolf Foundation to a young Israeli artist; the Gerard Levy Prize for a young photographer from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and the Lotos Club Award. She recently had solo exhibitions at the SculptureCenter, New York, 2011, Participant, Inc., New York, 2010, and group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Miami Art Basel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Lombard Fried Projects, New York. Yefman's solo show Marath A Bouke, project #4 is currently at Derek Eller Gallery, New York, from November 18, 2011 to January 9, 2012.
For more information click here.
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Tamar Ettun
ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER: PART 2
Andrea Meislin Gallery
526 W 26th St #214, New York, NY
NOVEMBER 19 - DECEMBER 17, 2011
"Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculpture and video by Tamar Ettun, One Thing Leads to Another: Part 2. This is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Moving to the United States from Israel, Ettun attempted to bridge the gap between the two cultures by relying on symbols with roots in both places. Hot Air Balloons caught her attention because of their similarity to the parachutes she saw during her training in the Israeli Army. Upon graduating from the Yale MFA program (2010), Tamar Ettun received a travel grant that she used to research Hot Air Balloons while traveling from Vermont to San Francisco in forty days. Through Ettun's travels-reminiscent of both the journeys in Homer's Odyssey and Around the World in Eighty Days-she collected materials and experiences that later formed the basis for her sculptures. In the end, there are forty small sculptures all based on the theme of transportation and movement-one for each day of her journey. Along with the sculptures, the secondary gallery space will feature a video installation projected onto an inflated Israeli Army."
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Ohad Meromi and Tomer Aluf
Soloway
348 South 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY
November 6th - 20th, 2011
Opening reception: Sunday November 6th, 6-8pm
Closing event: Sunday, November 20th, 4pm
"SOLOWAY is pleased to present Drawing Club, organized by Pam Lins, Ohad Meromi and Halsey Rodman. Drawing Club is a semi-regular event organized with the intention of producing multi-authored two-dimensional drawing objects. Since its inception at the beginning of 2006, Drawing Club has occurred in a variety of configurations and locales with a shifting group of participants. Though the drawing sessions have always been focused on the production of shared drawings in all their formal glory, a parallax view reveals that Drawing Club has produced "material" rather than finished drawings -- a collectively-enacted, necessarily unique, tactile/haptic material infused with the exact texture and marks of the social body that produced it. Recently, Drawing Club met downtown in Zuccotti Park in the midst of Occupy Wall Street to work on a series of drawn posters. The exhibition at Soloway will include documentation of earlier Drawing Club events as well as posters from the OWS meeting."
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Elinor Carucci
Born
Sasha Wolf Gallery
548 West 28th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Through November 5th
"Elinor Carucci has spent the past 20 years photographing herself and the people in her life that she is closest to. In this new series, Born, she turns her attention to the newest members of her family, her children.
Elinor Carucci was born in Jerusalem in 1971 and attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design for photography. She has had solo shows all over the world including at Edwynn Houk Gallery, Ricco Maresca, Moscow House of Photography and Gagosian Gallery in London. Her photographs are included in collections such as, The Museum of Modern Art, ICP, The Houston Museum of Fine Art and The Brooklyn Museum. Her work as been shown in publications including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, W, Aperture, and ARTnews. She was awarded the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Young Photographers in 2001 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. Carucci has published two monographs to date: Closer and Diary of a Dancer. Her work was recently included in the exhibition Pictures by Women at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the graduate program at the School of Visual Arts."
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Danielle Fischer
Glimpse: Enigmatic Visions
William Bennett Gallery
35 Greene Street, New York, NY
October 13-21, 2011, 10-7 daily
Opening Reception October 13, 2011, 6-9 pm
The William Bennett Gallery's newest project "Glimpse: Enigmatic Visions" includes two pieces by Bezalel Graduate Danielle Fischer. Some of the works of the project are realized through techniques, which conceal the image making it indefinite and vague, such as the photographs by Danielle Fischer. For more information click here.
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Sari Carel
Revisiting Extinct Sounds: A Panel with Artist Sari Carel & Media Scholar Jonathan Sterne
Cabinet
300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY
September 30, 2011 7:00 p.m.
Join artist Sari Carel and media scholar Jonathan Sterne for an evening of conversation addressing early experiments in sound reproduction and their link to contemporary sound culture. Organized and moderated by curator Leah Abir, the evening will examine the relationship between sound an image, art and science, and imagination and technique through the early device known as the phonoautograph. Invented by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857, the phonoautograph was a sound visualizing machine that generated images of sound vibrations that resembled automatic drawings. For more information click here.
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Maya Zack
Living Room
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
July 31-October 30, 2011
In the installation Living Room , artist and filmmaker Maya Zack uses large-scale computer-generated 3D images accompanied by sound to evoke a Jewish family's apartment from 1930s Berlin. While listening to the stories and memories of Manfred Nomburg, visitors can experience the apartment visually. 3D glasses enhance the oversized images reimagining rooms in the apartment and give them immediacy and depth. Zack interviewed Nomburg, a German-born Jew living in Israel who fled his Berlin home in 1938. He describes the apartment in loving detail: the layout, furniture, appliances, tableware, carpeting and paintings. Recollections of the familiar objects inspire Nomburg's anecdotes about his family, bringing the rooms and their contents back to life." Maya Zack received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem where she is currently a lecturer in Fine Arts and New Media. For more information click here.
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Melanie Daniel
The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep
June 24 - September 10, 2011
Asya Geisberg Gallery
537B West 23rd Street
New York, NY
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 29, 6 - 9
Gallery closed August 13 - August 29
Thomas Bangsted, Anat Betzer, Melanie Daniel, Allison Gildersleeve, and Ezra Johnson. Learn more.
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Laura Murlender,
Accrochage
July 13 - September 2, 2011
Kouros Gallery
23 East 73rd Street, New York
Summer Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm or by appointment
A Multi-Media Exhibition of Works by Gallery Artists and New Artists at Kouros
For more information click here.
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An Evening with Dor Guez
June 20, 2011
Crosby Street Hotel
79 Crosby Street
Friends of Bezalel and Artis present an Evening with Dor Guez Dor Guez will present his archival project focusing on photographs of the Christian-Arab community in the Middle East in relation to his video and photographic installations.
Dor Guez (b. Jerusalem) is an artist and lecturer in the History and Theory Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He is also a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University. Guez received his BFA from the Department of Photography and Video, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2006), and his MFA from the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts, Tel Aviv University (2008). His artistic production employs photography and video installations to engage with general questions of identity and multiculturalism through the personal history of Guez's family. His work explores an intricate, multifaceted reality, challenging the boundaries and prevalent binary oppositions between East and West, Jews and Arabs, religion and secularism, and Israeli and Palestinian identity. His work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including Georgeopolis at Petach Tikva Museumn (2009); The Monayer Family at The Jewish Museum, New York (2010); Al-Lydd at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010); The Nation's Groves at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011); and Against the Grain at Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2011). Guez is represented by Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Carlier Gebauer Gallery, Berlin.
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Ilit Azoulay
The Keys
June 23 - August 12, 2011
Andrea Meislin Gallery
526 West 26th Street, Suite 214, New York
Azoulay's photographic process focuses on the creation of a completely staged visual environment. Azoulay's environment is built out of collected materials that were once a part of something larger but are now a testimony of something that is no more, objects that have lost their functionality. Azoulay avidly collects the detritus of modern life and utilizes it to tell a story about the aesthetic, cultural and historic values of contemporary times. Born 1972, Ilit Azoulay lives and works in Tel Aviv. She is a graduate of Bezalel Academy's BFA (1998) and MFA (2010) programs. Azoulay had received various prizes, including the 2011 Gerald Levy Prize for a Young Photographer from The Israel Museum and the 2010 Award for Excellent Achievements in the MFA program at Bezalel Academy. Her works can be found in various private collections as well as in the collection of The Israel Museum. For more information click here.
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Ariel Schlesinger
Under Destruction III
June 29-August 7, 2011
Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art
495 Broadway 3rd Floor, New York
Bezalel Fine Arts graduate Ariel Schlesinger's Untitled (Bubble Machine) (2006) gradually signals its own destruction through its repetitive and inflammatory nature. Consisting of a hand-drill mechanism placed on top of a wooden ladder, the machine periodically drops bubbles of soap onto an electrified field of coils, which in turn makes the bubble burst into a fleeting sphere of flames. Curated by Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp. A co-operation with Museum Tinguely, Basel. For more information click here.
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Noa Charuvi
Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial
June 26 through September 5, 2011
Bronx Museum
1040 Grand Concourse at 165 St Bronx, New York
Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial features sculptures, works on paper, video installations, photographs, and other works by the 72 participants in the 2011 AIM program. On view at the Bronx Museum and Wave Hill. Five site-specific commissioned projects at Randall's Island as part of FLOW.11.
For more information click here.
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Noa Charuvi
Intuitive Realities
Working Space 11
July 2 - July 31, 2011
Cuchifritos
Gallery / Project Space
120 Essex Street, New York
Intuitive Realities: Working Space 11 is AAI's annual exhibition featuring works selected by guest curator Jeanne Brasile from artists participating on the Lower East Side-Rotating Studio Program, in Fall 10 and Spring 11. AAI sponsors the Lower East Side Rotating Studio artist residency Program with artists chosen by a panel of outside artists, curators, and arts professionals in order to reaffirm our committment to nurturing, supporting, and exhibiting the work of under-recognized and emerging artists who live or work in the community, and by welcoming artists and others engaged with contemporary visual arts to the Lower East Side.
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Nir Hod
Genius
Paul Kasmin Gallery
May 19 - June 18, 2011
293 Tenth Avenue, 511 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present their first solo exhibition with the artist Nir Hod. Entitled Genius, it will include new paintings and sculpture from Hod's series of precocious and melancholic young men and women. Continuing the artist's longtime fascination with beauty and loneliness, glamour and death, Hod's aristocratic young Geniuses inhabit a world of paradox, where their cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and lit cigarettes. Like sculptures in a wax museum that aim to dramatically freeze time, these paintings explore art's power to capture life while simultaneously elevating it to depict an unattainable ideal. Nir Hod was born in Tel Aviv in 1970 and received his B.F.A. from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. He lives and works in New York. For more information click here.
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Lior Shvil
Operation OZ Belev-Yam
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24th Street, New York, NY
May 5 - June 11, 2011
Performances every Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
Andrea Rosen Gallery presents Lior Shvil's first solo exhibition in New York, Operaiton OZ Belev-Yam, curated by Andrea Zittel. "The work is characterized by Shvil's sense of absurdist humor, intimacy and pathos which all serve to frame political issues as larger existential problems rather then ideological positions." Lior Shvil received his M.F.A from Columbia University. He has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture, and has completed a post Graduate program in Art and Design from the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. For more information click here.
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CELEBRATE YOM HA'ATZMAUT with "Israel-in-Short: Animated Films."
CELEBRATE YOM HA'ATZMAUT with "Israel-in-Short: Animated Films."
The JCC in Manhattan Presents a collection of top animated short films of the Department of Screen-Based Arts at Bezalel Academy.
Tuesday May 10, 2011
Screening: 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Reception to follow
JCC of Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue @ 76th Street, New York
Purchase tickets here
Reservations required for entry.
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Melanie Daniel
Captivity Tales
February 17 - March 26, 2011
Asya Geisberg Gallery
537B West 23rd Street
New York, NY
"Captivity Tales" is an exhibition of paintings by Melanie Daniel. With a stark combination of Canadian imagery, personal history, and a bravura approach to painting, Melanie Daniel's newest series dispels any illusions of Canada's reputation as stolid, placid, and afraid to offend. Melanie Daniel was born in Victoria, and after studies in Canada completed her BFA and MFA at Bezalel Academy. With numerous exhibitions in Israel and abroad, Daniel received the 2009 Rappoport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, with a solo exhibition "Evergreen" at the Tel Aviv Museum in 2010.
Learn more.
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Tamar Hirschl
The Artist Project New York
Booth 352
March 17-20, 2011
Pier 92, 55th Street @ West Side Highway
Tamar Hirschl will be at booth 352 at the Artist Project New York, a new event sponsored by the producers of the Armory Show, Volta, Art Chicago/NEXT among other fairs. She is showing a suite of paintings and some recent resin work. The fair runs concurrently with Architectural Digest's Home & Design Show. Artist Project New York hours are Thursday 10 am-9PM, Friday 10 am-7pm, and Saturday & Sunday 10 am-6pm. Tickets are available here. Tamar studied at Bezalel Academy.
Image credit: Tamar Hirschl, Transitions II (2005), acrylic on canvas, 36 x 60 inches
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Sharona Eliassaf
School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Department
End of the Year Exhibition
February 25 - March 12, 2011
Reception: March 3, 2011 6-8 pm
Visual Arts Gallery
601 West 26th Street
15th Floor
New York, NY
Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat, 10-6
An exhibition showcasing the work of the graduating class of SVA including Bezalel Alumna Sharona Eliassaf. The second of two thesis exhibitions in the MFA Fine Arts Department. Curated by Matthew Moravec. Presented by the MFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts.
Learn more.
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Galia Offri
A Strange Affinity to the Beautiful and the Dreadful
January 16 - March 6, 2011
Hendershot Gallery
195 Chrystie Street, New York, NY
Sue de Beer, Meghan Boody, Julia Chiang, Jen DeNike, Damien Echols, Alexa Gerrity, Leor Grady, Ichiro Irie, Ragnar Kjartansson, Marilyn Manson, Bjørn Melhus, Kneil Melicano, Donald Moffett, Galia Offri, Trong G. Nguyen, Randy Polumbo, Gilad Ratman, Ugo Rondinone, Lorna Simpson, Center for Tactical Magic, Ghost of a Dream, Zomo, and Nelson Loskamp's Electric Chaircut Rapunzel Performance.
For more information click here.
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Noa Charuvi
Scope NYC
March 2-6, 2011
320 West Street @ West Side Highway
Across from Pier 40
"This year's New York edition of SCOPE will present 50 international galleries from four continents and sixteen countries including China, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Spain, and Canada. SCOPE New York's invitees will uphold its unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows providing the real opportunity for gallerists, collectors, curators, artists, critics and art lovers alike to experience a view of the contemporary art market available nowhere else."
For more information on viewing hours please see http://www.scope-art.com/Index.php/new_york/schedule/.
Image credit: Noa Charuvi, Pink Tile, 2010, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches
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Sigalit Landau
Venice Biennale Artist and Bezalel Graduate Sigalit Landau in Conversation with Curator Jean de Loisy
March 3, 2011 - 6:30-8:30 pm
Sotheby's
1334 York Avenue at 72nd Street
7th Floor
New York, NY
Artis-Contemporary Israeli Art Fund and Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris present a conversation with artist Sigalit Landau and curator Jean de Loisy. Landau will represent Israel at the 2011 Venice Biennale with a site-specific installation, "One Man's Floor is Another Man's Feelings," co-curated by Jean de Loisy and Ilan Wizgan. The talk will provide an intimate and rare glimpse of Landau's project and artistic practice.
RSVP required. Please email persis@artisrael.org with names of all guests.
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Ohad Meromi
Rehearsal Sculpture
December 10, 2010-February 12, 2011
Art in General
79 Walker Street, New York, NY
Ohad Meromi will use Art in General's sixth floor galleries as a combined theatrical stage, architectural installation, and site for performance. This project is Meromi's first opportunity to combine performance and sculpture in a work that has the capacity to evolve over a period of several months: essentially, Art in General will become the primary space for his studio practice. Drawing on modernist architecture, Israeli Kibbutzim, the plays of Bertolt Brecht, and Constructivist set design as influences, Meromi will create a series of sculptural environments that are continually altered through off-hours "rehearsals" that will take place in the gallery.
Born in Israel, Ohad Meromi currently lives and works in New York City. Meromi graduated from Bezalel Academy (1992) and went on to receive his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts (2003). He was recently granted the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2008 Grants to Artists Award.
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Avner Ben-Gal
Smackville
November 11 - December 23, 2010
Opening November 11th, 6-8pm
Bortolami Gallery
520 West 20th Street, New York
Bortolami announces its second solo exhibition of Avner Ben-Gal.
Smackville draws from abstract and visual representations of the effects of opiate drugs: withdrawal, craving and usage. The show seeks to describe the moment of the chemical reaction when the toxic substance intrudes the body and is infused into the bloodstream. The works convey a will for redemption, rather than a need to be rehabilitated.
Avner Ben-Gal was born in Israel in 1966 and has a degree in Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. He currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. He has held a solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2009, The Museum Fur Gegenwartskunst in Basel in 2008 and the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado in 2007. He has participated in numerous group shows including exhibitions at the 50th Venice Biennial, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin and at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
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Tamar Ettun/Yael Bartana
Handheld History
October 24, 2010
3-6:00 p.m.
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Screening 15 video pieces of Israeli and Iranian artists, including Bezalel gradate Yael Bartana, followed by a discussion lead by Thomas Keenan of The Human Rights Projects. For more information click here.
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 Wine and Cheese Reception with Adi Nes
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Crosby Street Hotel
BY INVITATION ONLY
"Issues of Identity"
Accompanied by his oversized staged color photographs, Adi Nes will discuss themes of Israeli identity, militarism, masculinity, ethnicity, religion and the bible. His photographs reference art history, mythology, the history of photography and well known works of art. Adi Nes' presentation will also include the short film
"Behind the Scenes" which chronicles his life in the world of art and explains his unique style of working.
For more information email rebecca@bezalelfriends.org.
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 Guy Ben-Ari
Here We Aren't, So Quickly
July 15 - September 5, 2010
Thierry Goldberg Projects
5 Rivington Street, New York, NY
Opening: Thursday, July 15, 6-8
Summer Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 11-6
Here we Aren't So Quickly is a three-person exhibition with paintings by Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Guy Ben-Ari, and Hiroyuki Nakamura. The title of the show, taken from a Jonathan Safran Foer story, points to questions of authenticity and subjectivity explored in the work of all three artists. Whether through figuration or abstraction, each artist plays with the limits of representation in an attempt to knock up against something more real, and perhaps more permanent. The role that images play in relation to subjectivity is a prevalent theme in the work of Guy Ben-Ari. With the immediacy and deceiving simplicity his comic-book style provides, his paintings are constituted by other paintings. In this sense the work is reminiscent of the painting Galerie de Vues de la Rome Moderne by Giovanni Paolo Panini, and yet here the images depict a myriad of other images, not for the purpose of conveying the historical, but so as to inform the interior world of the individual.
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 Dor Guez
The Jewish Museum, Goodkind Media Center
Through September 07, 2010
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St, New York, NY
"The Monayer Family: Three Videos by Dor Guez"
In a series of videos, Dor Guez offers perspectives on ethnic identity, citizenship, and prejudice from three generations of a Christian Arab family. Dor Guez is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher of photography at Tel Aviv University. He holds a BFA from the Department of Photography and Video, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2006), and an MFA from the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts, Tel Aviv University (2008) (From
Artis).
For more information click here.
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Noa Charuvi
HEAT WAVE
Lombard-Freid Projects, 531 W. 26th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
June 17 - July 30, 2010
Heat Wave brings together six fresh voices from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India and Turkey. Though varied in terms of geography, language and tradition, these international artists are bound generationally and unified by an interest in representing elements of cultural and political specificity through expressions and symbols of the everyday. Using humor, critique, irony and introspection, the work of each artist proposes a distinct strategy for active engagement - whether borrowing from popular culture (Atay, Nugroho) or photojournalism (Charuvi), expanding the language of documentary into the realm of fiction (al Solh) or examining tensions (Abidi) and repositories of national identity (Schindler). New York based, Israeli artist Noa Charuvi paints from photojournalistic images taken in Gaza. Her colorful canvases abstract the demolished buildings ravaged by the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Bedroom (2010) depicts the traces of life in what was once a domestic setting; furniture and belongings are strewn across the interior as the torn walls expose the room as a destroyed landscape. The site-specificity of the source images, in contrast with her process of deconstructing the photographed forms creates a body of work that demands attention and observation.
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Christmas in July
Ariel Schlesinger
Yvon Lambert
Through July 31, 2010
550 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Opening Reception July 1, 6-8 p.m.
For more information click here.
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Exhibit Tour with Professor Ezri Tarazi, Head of Bezalel's Master of Design Program
May 16, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Cooper Hewitt, National-Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, New York, NY
Friends of Bezalel is pleased to announce its first Young Leadership event featuring a personal tour of the Cooper Hewitt exhibit National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?" with Bezalel Professor and Department Head Ezri Tarazi. Professor Tarazi's work is part of the exhibit. Light dinner to follow.
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Friends of Bezalel is proud to partner with Dor Chadash and over 100 other community organizations for the annual New York community-wide Yom Ha'Atzmaut event.
The evening begins with a ceremony to honor Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, then continues in an all-out celebration of Israel, featuring Israeli reggae stars Hatikva 6, Didi Erez, Guy Wittenberg and DJ Ilan Henig, and a taste of the Israeli "shuk."
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Miki Carmi and Tamy Ben-Tor
Stefan Stux Gallery
Through May 1, 2010
530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Stefan Stux Gallery, in conjunction with Zach Feuer Gallery and Salon 94, presents Disembodied Archetypes, a two-person exhibition of new performances and videos by Tamy Ben-Tor and new paintings and photographs by Miki Carmi. All of the works in this exhibition are bound by a series of photographs and texts that embody the dialectic of the archetypical and the concrete.
Miki Carmi received his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2005 and graduated from Bezalel Academy of art and design in Jerusalem in 2003.
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Galia Gur Zeev
April 26th, 2010 12 p.m.- 4 p.m.
Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, 92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
In this one-person exhibition artist Galia Gur Zeev presents two series of photographs exploring family gatherings around the dining table, which join together to form a single show. The series Table consists of a wall piece depicting the diners around the table from a bird's-eye view; the series Seder is an elaboration of the former. In both series the table is nonexistent and the meal did not really take place. In both, the relevant information emerges from the black.
Israeli-born photographer Galia Gur Zeev graduated (BFA) from the Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. For more information regarding this exhibit please call 212.415.5597.
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SHAUL TZEMACH
Slash: Paper Under the Knife
Museum of Arts and Design, 5th Floor Gallery
2 Columbus Circle, New York
October 7, 2009 - April 4, 2010
Shaul Tzemach's papercut Concretion/Conglomeration is on display as part of Slash: Paper under the Knife. The exhibit takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations. Selected artists have been commissioned to create site-specific or site-referential works, and others will be invited to create work onsite in MAD's three artist studios that will subsequently be installed in the exhibition. Shaul Tzemach received both his B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. The artist began exhibiting his work in 2000, and has continued to show at museums and galleries in Israel. This is his first New York showing.
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