A Station in Time 2022 / Group Exhibition

Exhibition of the First Studio Graduates for 2021-22 at The Small Gallery: Ella Berry, Gal Devora Finkelstein, Yael Mordechay

Curator: Ravit lazer

Opening:  Thursday, 1/9/22, 19:00

Closing:  Saturday, 29/10/22, 14:00

The first studio scholarship invites the winners on a professional, human, and material adventure.  The one-year residency enables in depth understanding of working with clay, technology research and learning about managing a studio, amongst other possibilities.  The exposure to exhibitions, a professional library and theoretical program as well as the close encounter with the professional practicing teaching team and artist residents gives them insight to various teaching methods, thought and creative processes. This enabled the winners of the scholarship to continue the work they began when studying and try out new directions, each with her own personal source of inspiration.   

Ella Berry

Ella, a graduate of the ceramic and glass design department of Bezalel, makes functional wheel thrown vessels, that have been deconstructed and combined in unexpected and sometimes humorous ways.  In an additional series she combines line with form where the decoration on the vessels is the base to convey ideas.

Gal Devora Finkelstein

Gal, a graduate of the ceramic and glass design department of Bezalel, over the year made a few series of works but chose to show works that through the engraved surface patterns create a series, a family.  In an additional group of work she made many small pots from terracotta and porcelain and through the engraved and decorated surface she created a landscape inspired by the Alexander Zeid Hill near her childhood home in Tivon, a personal, local, and Israeli landscape. 

Yael Mordechay

Yael, a graduate of the industrial design department Bezalel, continued a project that she did not complete during her studies, creating a connection between the beach (an integral part of her life) and ceramic design using plaster molds for short series of works. The models, inspired by shells, were carved freely in beach sand, and then cast in plaster. The colors and patterns on the surfaces were decorated like shells and sea creatures, creating a connection between the organic and the new objects, the natural texture of sand and the creative action.