Mediums - oil painting

Artist's Statement -I am interested in the dialogue between the inner and the outer, between the seen and the felt, and how this dialogue transpires in paint, in plastic form. I am interested in tensions that occur between various aspects of the situation, between the visual and the tactile, between body and space, between form and light, between movement and stillness, and the way these tensions can lead to a wholeness. I am interested in painting as a means of exploring various ways of relating to the world in which I find myself. ---August 10, 1998. What is the nature of desire? How does it function in vision? What is the nature of presence? Of absence? What is this unexpected presence found in the seeming absence? What does it mean, this experience of sitting in a room and watching the light enter, filling the space? Falling on an empty chair, falling on a woman's body. The nature of light as caressing, as enlightening and revealing form. The nature of light as overbright, as glaring and breaking down form. While working from observation, while interrogating the objective world, I am interested in giving room and invitation to the range of my changing subjectivity, and watching how the variety of responses affect the dialogue formally, creating various means of translation, of markmaking and plastic involvement. ---July 15, 2001.

Gallery Affiliations - Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York; Artspace, Jerusalem. ---Public Collections; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA; Omanut La'am (Art for the People), Jerusalem, Israel; The Ballinglen Archive, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland

Exhibitions - One-Person Exhibitions; 2003, Drue Chryst Gallery, Sparta; 2002- Sara Kishon Gallery, Tel Aviv; 2001- Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem; 2000- Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem; 1999- University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa; 1998- Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem; 1996- Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem; 1995- Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem; 1992- Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1992- Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Selected Group Exhibitions; 2003- Ballinglen: The Artist in Rural Ireland, Mayo County Center, Castlebar; 2002- "Common Threads", Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem; 2001- "Traces - Contemporary Drawing in Israel", Artist's House, Jerusalem; 1999- Art and Realities in Jerusalem, Artist's House, Jerusalem; 1998- Ice Gallery, New York; 1998- Juried Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; 1997- Portraits, Artist's House, Jerusalem; 1996- Virtual Reality, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; 1994- Artist's House, Tel Aviv; 1994- Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv; 1994- Artfocus, Fisher Gallery, Jerusalem; 1993- Artist's House, Jerusalem; 1992- Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA; 1991- First Street Gallery, New York, NY.