Ora Abrahami: Abstract Landscape / Israeli Jewish Modernism

Description

Ora Abrahami
born 1935, Rishon LeZion, Israel
Abstract Landscape
Original Hand-Signed Mixed Media on Wood
Artist Name:
Ora Abrahami
Title:
Abstract landscape
Signature Description:
Hand-signed lower left
Technique:
Mixed media on wooden board
Image Size:
25 x 35 cm / 9.84" x 13.78
" inch
Frame:
Unframed
Condition:
Very good
Artist's Biography:
Ora Abrahami, painter,
born 1935, Rishon LeZion, Israel
Education
Studied art with Sioma Baram, Yosef Kossonogy, Abba Fenichel, Ernest Fuchs and Stefan Alexander, and etching with Tuvia Be'eri;
Graduate of Levinsky Seminar,1968.
Member of the Artists Association since 1968
Awards and Prizes
1986 Prize for Creativity, Bible House, Tel Aviv, for the painting "Let There Be Light"
Born in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel, Ora Abrahami came from a family of five. Her father was a furniture dealer and her mother raised the three girls. Ora studied in the elementary school in Rishon LeZion, the first school in which Hebrew was the language of instruction.
Ora has been painting and drawing since her early childhood but her first formal education in art was a course in painting, instructed by the painter Sioma Baram, leading to her being selected to participate in a 1946 exhibition in the Dizingoff House in Tel Aviv titled "Painting Children." She then continued to the Lewinsky teachers seminary in Tel Aviv, graduating in 1953.
In 1954 she served in the Israeli army and shortly after married Uzi Abrahami, a third-generation native of Rishon LeZion and a long-standing farmer.
During her training years as a teacher she continued to paint, taking courses instructed by the painter Yosef Kossonogy in Rishon LeZion, as well as Abba Fenichel.
Between the years 1962- 1967 she took classes with the painter Alexander and in 1967 studied woodcuts and engraving with Tuvia Be'eri, as part of the Artists' Association. Ora then began exhibiting her work to the public, first participating in local group exhibitions and in 1967 with her first solo exhibition in Bet Sokolov in Tel Aviv.
This first solo exhibition can be classified as her personal creed: "The beauty hidden in various corners of a scenery and of the human being, his soul and experiences; all gave birth to this exhibition".
In this sentence Ora Abrahami managed to define herself as an artist and as a person.
Following came a series of solo exhibitions, additional group exhibitions and various prizes.
All recognized Ora Abrahami's superb skills using oil colors and mixed media as well as emphasized the personal tension between her design abilities and her picturesque visions. The artistic values pervading Ora Abrahami's work support and enrich the subject matter ranging from amorphous landscapes and biblical concepts to the rebirth of a Jewish city and nation.
Her subject matters allow her to show her own personal unique style.
At the same time her works possess timeless universal qualities of birth, death, nature and religion, inspiring a mystical atmosphere, encompassing all, and crossing the borders between
peoples and nations.
Solo Exhibitions (Partial list)
November 2004:
The Song of the Earh, Ramat Gan Musuem, Israel
2004
JCC (Palisades), Tenafly, NJ
"My Country, My Homeland, My Village"
2003
Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington, DC
"My Country, My Homeland, My Village"
2001
The Shfela Museum, Kefar Menahem
2001
Bet Kaner , Rishon Le-Zion
2001
ICC Jersualem International Convention Center, Jerusalem
2000
Jerusalem Theater
2000
Yeffet 28 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2000
The Center for the Arts, Rishon Le-Zion
1999
Tokyo, Japan. Paper making
1999
Artists Pavilion, Holon
1998
Carmel Gallery, Daliat-El-Carmel
1996
The New-Old Gallery, Rishon Le-Zion
1991-1994
Beit Zioney America Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1990-1991
Artists Association, Tel-Aviv
1985
Artists Association, Tel-Aviv
1982
Smilanski Center, Rehovot
1979
Shulamit Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1977
Artists Pavilion, Holon
1971
Engel Gallery, Jerusalem
Group Exhibitions (Partial List)
2002
Baram Museum, Kibbutz Baram
2002
Um El Fahm
2000
The Sixth International Art Triennal
Majdanek 2000 Lublin, Poland
Collections
Bible Museum, Tel Aviv
Ben Gurion Airport - VIP Room, Tel Aviv
Binyaney Ha'oma, Jerusalem
State Museum at Majdanek, Lublin, Poland
National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
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