Part III: Tel Aviv Craft and Design Biennale

 Part III of the Tel Aviv Craft and Design Biennale at the Eretz Israel Museum

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Dana Bloom, "Cover-Discover", 2019, gilded foil (chocolate wrappings), Clay.

 

Hannan Abu-Hussein, "Shoe Installation" 2019, Clay

"Ceramic Replicas of mens shoes--visual representation of the patriarchal worldview that may conceal violence and aggression towards women and whose footsteps continue to resound from one generation to the next."

Ronit Dagan and Orly Wexler "SILI[con]-Game, 2018, glass, silicon, shrinking sleeves. 

"A necklace, combining an age-old material with industrial materials brings together rigid and fragile elements with soft and flexible ones. A new visual language arises out of the encounter between materials and techniques."

Rivka Levi, "Permanent Variable" 2018, photographs, thread, pigment, frame loom weaving, video.

"A textile out of photographs, texts, and family memories serves as a screen for the projections of a video work, which examines the weaving process. The work presents a personal memory alongside shifts in cultural conceptions and craft traditions."

Roy Maayan "Principle Original Horizontality" Clay, soil, rocks from the Golan Heights, minerals, ceramic cones, layered and fired.    "Objects composed of layers of materials originating in nature or the artist's studio. The layers fired at different temperatures and melted to different degrees, relate to the principle or original Horizontality--one of the fundamental principles of geology stating that layers of sediment are deposited horizontally"

Vered Babai "Erratic", Pencil Shavings,  Inspired by the topography of the Ramon Crater, the artist uses pencil shavings to echo the structure of the rock strata.

Maayan Shahar, "Stone Rug" Stone, Gravel, string,  Colored stones and gravel collected from yards, squares, and parking lots, bringing the private and public together

Carmel Ilan "The Secret Life of Trees #3", wood shells, folded paper.  "Leaf-like objects holding onto the genetic relationships of trees that "grew" on the concrete floor of the studio and their produce was born from the amputated trees"

Jerry Shai-Sarig "Senses", hand embroidered cotton and polyester thread on fabric.

Lital Goldenberg, "Between Me and Me, Silver, Copper, Plastic Bags

Vera Wallerstein, "Here and Now", Bottle Caps, woven metal thread

Yael Friedman, "Circle" Cotton Fabric, hand sewn, 3D printing

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Chloe Dark: Sculpture

 Chloe Darke: Mixed Media Sculpture

Viewed in her studio at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

"Cordyceps Extraction Kit"

"Dilate"

"Distill"

"Inoculate"

"Plasmodium Brooch"

Part of her design process below

Jodi Walsh: Oritatami Nendo / Folding Clay

 Jodi Walsh: Form, Negative space, pattern, texture, contrast in Ceramic Form

Viewed At Sawyer Yards Art Gallery

Glenn Ligon: Text Based

 Glenn Ligon: Text Based Paintings

"How it feels to be colored Me" Oil, gesso, graphite on wood

Drawing on the writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Pryor, Gertrude Stein, and others, Ligon "reframes" black identity and American history.

Viewed as part of the 'Witness' exhibit at MFA-Houston

detail

"Mirror Drawing"

"Negro Sunshine"

Glenn Ligon on Art21

Oscar Muñoz: Socially relevant in both process and composition

 Colombian Artist Oscar Muñoz uses coffee and sugar, both staples of the Colombian economy, to illustrate men that have been slain as a result of drug cartel violence, drawing attention to the ever continuing power the cartels wield in the country.

"Pixels", Coffee and Sugar

details below

Additional work by Oscar Muñoz: "The Game of Probabilities", self portrait series, on view at MoMA,

The Art Assignment: What is Art?

 The Art Assignment offers up "some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood art"

Christian Boltanski: Witness

 Christian Boltanski: From the Exhibition 'Witness' at the MFA-Houston

From the exhibition statement: "Memorializing the destruction of life and culture in the Holocaust, the sculptures have the aura of religious shrines. Here, the faces of Jewish children dressed for Purim--a holiday celebrating the salvation from intended slaughter--have been copied from at 1939 photograph, enlarged to life size, and blurred, as if details of individual identity are slowly receding into memory. Paired with simple cookie tins of a sort that might hold childhood treasures or family photographs and surrounded by electric lights reminiscent of Yahrzeit (memorial) candles, each becomes a moving embodiment of lost possibility"

"Monuments (La Fête du Pourim), photographs and mixed media

Other works below from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

"Altar to the Chases High School"

"Eyes"