From me to the urban landscape and back
I select structures or Israeli urban landscape compositions that attract my attention. From this humble and intimate point, I begin working. I have no desire to intervene or make changes. I try and see the city and the houses in a different light, forgetting cultural consensus, cancelling the obvious and giving personal meaning and new expression to the space I experience. Joining lines and points I gather individual elements and reconstruct through composition and perspective and by playing with light and shade. The works recall the connection between the private and the public, as I remember, joining my clay objects with the building materials of the cities. The clean lines of the works emphasize the nuances of the joined slabs and the angles as they meet. My latest works deal with remembering and forgetting, the personal and public, the disappearance of the body questioning the ability of control of these issues. I also work using unfired clay, drawing on walls and letting the clay peel off as it dries.
Teaching has accompanied my own artwork over the years. I supervise the art program at the Kfar Hayarok High School, teach Jewish and Arab children, as well as adults at the Israel museum, art at the AMAN Haredi College, volunteer at Mitveh, believing art is a way of life and a thought process that enables learning other subjects. I also volunteer to teach art history to new Russian immigrants in high school.
Biography
Education:
BFA in art 1982
1976- 77 Ceramic Sculpting Study, Avny Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel
1978-1982 Ceramic Department, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
1989 Amsterdam, Holand, Dutch language, Vrjie Universiteit
1991 Architectural Sculpture, Haifa University (Enrique Mestre, Spain)
2002 Teaching degree Kerem Institute, Jerusalem
Scholarships
1987 The E.K.W.C European Ceramic Work Center, Holland
1988 The E.K.W.C European Ceramic Work Center, Holland
Group Exhibitions
2011 “voyage” Benyamini Contemporary Ceramic Center. Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 “music in your eyes”, The Corine Maman Ashdod Museum. Ashdod, Israel
2010 “Tile” Exhibition of work by participants of the ceramic symposium at the Umm El- Fahem Art Gallery
2010 “Looking In, Looking Out: The Window in Art” the Israel museum. Jerusalem
2010 “From the Melting Pot into the Fire: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel” Gardiner Museum Toronto Canada
2010 “Vase Now” The artists’ house, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 “Quotations”, Bait Aaron Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
2009 “From the Melting Pot into the Fire: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel”
Mint Museum of Craft + Design Charlotte, North Carolina U S A
2009 “Postcards from Gaza, Postcards to Gaza” Zochrot Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 “Clay, Sensation. The Fifth Israeli Ceramics Biennale” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2008 “Jerusalem, Surface Fractures” The Artists house, Jerusalem
2007 “Desert generation”, 40 Years of Occupation, 1967-2007 Israeli and Palestinian Artists against the Occupation and for a just Peace. The Artists house, Jerusalem
2006 “Territory and identity, Between Ceramic and Architecture, the fourth biennale for Israeli ceramics” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2006 “Identities” Constant Gallery, Ramat Gan
2006 “Goblet” The Gallery for Ceramic design, Sho’eva
2006 “Ehara 10” collaboration with yuval yairi Science Museum, Jerusalem
2005 “Dialogue: Israeli & American Ceramic Artists in Maine”, Toby Rosenberg Gallery Portland, Maine, U.S.A
2005 “Tvilot”, David Yalin Gallery, Jerusalem.
2004 Artists – Teachers. About Identity and Femininity”, Tel Aviv.
2003 “20x20x13” The Gallery for Ceramic design, Sho’eva.
2003 “Sergey court yard event” Jerusalem.
2003 “Ehara 5”, Sergey court yard, Jerusalem.
2002 “Ehara 4”, The Resistance Museum, Jerusalem.
2002 “The Second Biennale for Israeli Ceramics” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2001 “Constructive Paradigms Architectural elements in contemporary ceramics” The artists house, Jerusalem
2000 “33×33″, the artists house, Jerusalem
1999 “In the Name of the Land, In the Name of the Lord”, The artists house, Jerusalem
1998 “National Home to Dream House, Israel 1948-1998” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1997 “Apertures and light in Jerusalem”, The artists house, Jerusalem
1996 “50 years of Israeli Ceramics”, Bait Aharon Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
1995 “Paintings, Drawings objects”, Gallery Pozner, Los Angeles, U.S.A
1995 “Drawing-Observed Drawing- Object”, Gallery Gimel, Jerusalem, Israel
1995 “Ceramic Israel”, U.S tour
1994 “Ceramic Israel” The Negev Museum, Beer Sheba, Israel
1993 “New Members” The artists house, Jerusalem
1993 “Receptacles” Bait Aharon Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
1992 “Israel- Istanbul 92” Istanbul, Turkey
1992 “Israel- Istanbul 92” Bait Aharon Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
1992 “Ancient & Recent” Haifa University
1989 “Een Uitgebreide Permanent” Gallery Kapelhuis, Amersfort, Holland
1985 “In the open” Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
“First Look”, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. 1985
“Kibbutz Artists Movement” Yad Labanim Museum, Petah Tikva, Israel 1984
1982 “Selected Work of Bezalel” Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem, Israel
1981 “Hameshutaf Beer Sheba” Visual Art Center, Beer Sheba, Israel
Solo Exhibitions
2009 “Black box” Art Center Jerusalem
2004 “Gauze” In collaboration with Hanna Ben Haim, The artists house, Jerusalem, Israel
1996 “Slice Of Light” Bait Aharon Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
1993 “Anat Bar el – Sculpture” The artists’ house, Jerusalem, Israel
1992 “Anat Bar el” Gallery k & W, Deb Bosch, Holland
1989 “Anat Bar el Klei Objekten” Gallery Westeinde, Den Haag, Holland
1989 “Klei Objekten” E.K.W.C, Heusden, Holland
1988 “Images” Michaelskerk, Oosterland, Holland
Guest Artist and symposiums
2010 International Ceramic Symposium Givat Haviva Arts Center
2010 International Ceramic Symposium Umm el-Fahem Gallery
2005 Watershed Center for Ceramic art, Maine U.S.A
1995 Ceramic Department, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
Curating
2007 “Yonat Ofers’ works” The Artists house, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv 2004 “Artists – Teachers. About Identity and Femininity”,
The New Gallery, The Jerusalem Municipality 2000 “First touches”,
Catalogs
2011 “voyage” Benyamini Contemporary Ceramic Center. Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 “music in your eyes” The Corine Maman Ashdod Museum. Ashdod, Isreal
2010 “Tile” Exhibition of work by participants of the ceramic symposium at the Umm El- Fahem Art Gallery
2010 “From the Melting Pot into the Fire: Contemporary Ceramics in Israel” Gardiner Museum Toronto Canada
2010 “Vase Now” The artists house, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 “Quotations”, Bait Aaron Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
2009 “Black box” Art Center Jerusalem
2008 “The fifth biennale for Israeli ceramics” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2008 “Jerusalem, Surface Fractures” The Artists house, Jerusalem
2007-8 “Yofi” Flow Gallery London England
2006 “Territory and Identity, Between Ceramic and Architecture the fourth biennale for Israeli ceramics” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2006 “Identities” Constant Gallery, Ramat Gan
2006 “goblet” The Gallery for Ceramic design, Sho’eva
2003 “20x20x13” The Gallery for Ceramic design, Sho’eva.
2002 Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv “The Second Biennale for Israeli Ceramics”
2001 “Constructive Paradigms Architectural elements in contemporary ceramics” The artists house, Jerusalem
2000 “33×33” The artists house, Jerusalem
1999 “In the Name of the Land, In the Name of the Lord” The artists house, Jerusalem
1997 “Apertures and light in Jerusalem” The artists house, Jerusalem
1996 “50 years of Israeli Ceramics” Bait Aharon Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
1996 “Slice Of Light” Bait Aharon Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
1995 “Ceramic Israel” U.S tour
1994 “Ceramic Israel” The Negev Museum, Beer Sheva, Israel
1993 “New Members” The artists house, Jerusalem
1993 “Receptacles” Bait Aharon Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
1992 “Israel- Istanbul 92” Istanbul, Turkey
1992 “Israel- Istanbul 92” Bait Aharon Kahana, Ramat Gan, Israel
1992 “Ancient & Recent” Haifa University
“In the open” Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel 1985
“Kibbutz Artists Movement” Yad L Le banim Museum, Petah Tikva, Israel 1984
Publications
2002 Thoughts in relation to the exhibition “First draw” Art Connection, January 2002
2001 “Maturity and Femininity in the eyes of Art”, Alma, No 8, Ministry of Education.
1997 “Slice of Light”, Mishkafaim, ‘About Earth’, No 31. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel