About

Artist Statement

My work is narrative-based. I have something to say, and I say it visually. I am especially focused on  discord in all its complexities. I explore human narratives full of ignorance, sorrows, heartbreaks and celebration of cruelty. This is what is current and relevant. This is what I see in front of me . The landscape is  just background.

The hues, shapes and textures are intentional in serving the narrative. And to this end, I constantly mix the realistic with the abstract, a mostly realistic painting with some abstraction or a mostly abstract painting with some realism.

My main and constant medium of choice is cold wax mixed with oil paints and oil pigments. At times I also use oil paints over acrylic based mediums like crackle paste, fiber paste, etc. Sometimes I use other relevant materials like sand or paper.

Bio

I divide my time between California and Tel Aviv. While most of my work is created in my studio in California, both locales greatly influence my work.

I grew up in Israel and came to the US for graduate school. A product of Tel Aviv University and Stanford University, I left the business world twenty years ago to focus on art. I have taken classes at different institutions and with excellent teachers (Mel Prest, Jamie Brunson, Jody Mattison, Jerry McLaughlin, Rebecca Crowell to name a few). My very first teacher, Edwin Salomon, is the one I credit with teaching me the all-important lesson of knowing when a painting is done when, watching me paint with abandon he yelled "Stop! YOU ARE  DONE!" He scared the life out of me but the lesson was learned.