Ben Avram
Ben Avram is a Jerusalem painter, an artist who lives and breathes Jerusalem in most of his lovely oil paintings and water colors. The characters he depicts are not creations of a stranger overcome with the exotic. They are figures of people in their own world, harmony between man and his environment, a full life. In the Land of Israel there is something special about the sunlight and the local scale of colors and these Ben Avram understands and captures in his paintings. He approaches his canvases with a spontaneous vigor, arriving at a semblance of the actual scenes through an accumulation of lines against areas of color. His oils are rich performances of decoration, his water colors and gouaches remain fresh, illuminated by transparencies that recall the clean light of Israel. Ben Avram betrays some influences of his Indian boyhood. But the subjects that he paints so gracefully with a touch of Oriental lyricism are scenes of Jerusalem, his home for over 20 years.
Slava Brodinsky
Slava Brodinsky was born in 1955 in Birobijan, east Russia. After serving in the Soviet Army, he returned to his home town and began studying in the fine art academy of Birobijan from which he graduated with honors in 1979. After graduating from his studies he continued painting participating in exhibitions throughout the United States. In 1991 he immigrated with his family to Israel which he claims has deeply affected his painting. The artist travels frequently to Europe mostly southern France, Tuscany and Umbria, Italy. His work is characterized with materialism due to the original use of color mixed with sand, the work of rough paint brushes, light and shade composition which is influenced by the season of the year. His work has been exhibited in a sole exhibition as well as many group exhibitions throughout the U.S.A., Canada, France, England and Japan.
Boris Dubrov
Boris Dubrov was born in St. Petersburg in 1979. In 1994 Boris studied at the Art-Restoring Lyceum "Kupchino", which got him interested in surrealism. The administration of this Lyceum arranged the first exhibition of his works in the field of surrealism. Dubrov moved to Israel in 1997. He joined the Israeli Defense Forces and served there for three years. After the Army service, in 2002, he became a prize-winner of the “Young Artist "competition in Israel. In 2003 he became acquainted with master of coinage, Itshakh Cheskelson, who works in Judaica style. He painted many pictures dedicated to the mestechko life of Jewish people in the prewar epoch of the Eastern Europe. Today most of his paintings are found in private collections. He has participated in "Salon des Artistes France" in Paris and "Judaica Art in New York in 2005 and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2006. This artist holds a broad and versatile range of creativity. His works reflect the social features of Judaica as well as strict classicism and surrealism while concealing elements of eroticism in landscapes.
Alexander Grinshpun
Alexander Grinshpun was born in Bandera in 1949. He began to assert himself by age 13, and asked his parents to enroll him in art studies. At age 15 Grinshpun went to work in a wood processing plant; in the evenings he studied 'naturalistic painting'. Grinshpun was determined to leave his small town and headed for St. Petersburg, which was the center of art and culture, and was accepted to the art academy despite his Jewishness. He remained there until 1978, specializing in creating sets for the theatre and opera. Grinshpun's move to Israel brought him face to face with the modernism and the postmodernism of 1990s Israeli art. The first period following his immigration did not show a break with his past, as very carefully crafted realistic elements did not disappear from his work, although some of his themes did take a turning point, expressing his euphoria.
Janos Kardos
Janos Kardos was born in Budapest Hungary in 1946. It was in Budapest where he completed his preliminary art courses. He left Hungary in 1970 to pursue further art studies in countries as such Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Spain. It was during these travels that he developed his signature abstract expressionist style. Attracted to the climate and culture of the Caribbean, Kardos extended his journey over the Atlantic, making a home for himself on the Venezuelan island of Margarita and then later in the country's capital of Caracas. While living in Venezuela for 18 years he was able to refine his distinctive style. There he gained a reputation of an accomplished and professional artist and his works have been presented in various galleries and collections in the region. Kardos has since also exhibited his works throughout the United States in cities such as New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami. Today, Kardos lives between New York City and Caracas. He is regarded as a unique and distinct figure in the international art community and his works are recognized and appreciated by critics and collectors alike. Despite having lived in a variety of places, his artworks remain largely uninfluenced by his circumstances. Kardos explains that his abstract expressionism "comes from a deeper realm of being." His style is an authentic representation of his way of experiencing life at a deeper level.
Michael Rozenvain
Michael Rozenvain was born in Kiev in the Ukraine in 1963. He attended art school in Kiev and later on continued his studies at the Lvov Academy of Applied Art. He immigrated to Israel in 1990 and has since had a number of one - man shows as well as participating in group exhibitions. He has contributed large murals and decorative elements to public buildings as well as monumental displays in hotels and libraries. One's first encounter with the work of Michael Rozenvain, one's mind turns to the palimpsest of many generations pastthat is, the parchment or tablet on which an earlier drawing or writing has been erased to make way for another. This impression quickly vanished and is replaced by an ultra-modern concept of windows (a computer - technique), in which the major element, a specific landscape or the ever-present vibrant flowers in a vase, almost entirely covers but not quite, a second, third, or even fourth scene enclosed in a framework or a window. Their vitality is unquestionably their foremost feature and stays in our mind's eye for long after we have left them behind.
Yuri Tremler
Yuri Tremler was born in the Ukraine in 1961. He attended the College of the Arts in Kharkov. He later continued his studies at the Kharkov Art & Design Academy as well as at the Gall Design School in Germany. After that, he returned to Kharkov and worked as a metal smith theater decorator. Tremler immigrated to Israel in 1996 where he worked in crafts, industrial design, interior design, jewelry design, and participated in many exhibitions. After exploring new media to work within, he finally decided to dedicate himself almost exclusively to painting in 1998. Painted with the accuracy of a designer and the delicacy of a colorist, his works both inspire and calm. He uses the female form and contrasts it with geometric shapes in his paintings. The contrast between the stasis of his stylized female silhouettes and the dynamic interaction of his brightly colored patches and complex textures creates a feeling of internal peace, balanced with the harmony of the external world. Crystalline squares and objects blend with feminine silhouettes, moving whimsically from light to shadow, reflecting each other - flowers and women, vases and goblets - coming to a halt in scattered, multicolored cubes. Tremler's paintings move from the rational to the emotional. The images in his masterful works saturate the emotions and remain in the imagination. His works are now exhibited in galleries and art shows throughout Israel and the United States.
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