I am an abstract painter, interested in colour, light, space and time.
My work is meditative, intuitive and process oriented. For more than a decade, I have been investigating the ancient medium of encaustic which involves beeswax and pigments. I am challenged by the qualities of the wax from the molten to the solid, from hard to fragile and the skin like reference which is appealing to me. Through this medium, I face questions of the controllable and uncontrollable. This process oriented approach of layering the material and fusing the layers together with the help of a heat source are the tools that help me achieve a simplicity which goes beyond materiality and are mainly resulting in colour fields.
born in Switzerland
lives and works in Israel
light fields
light spaces
objects
ataraxia
ataraxia (Meeresstille der Seele)
created during my residency in Dusseldorf 2018
weaving light
colour fields
exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Ataraxia, Atelierhaus Sittarderstrasse, Dusseldorf
2017 Small Shifts, Atelierhaus Sittarderstrasse, Dusseldorf
2013 Silent Transition, The Zaritsky Artist's House, Tel Aviv; curator: Daniella Talmor
From the Crude to the Urban, Hecht House, Haifa; curators: Moti Harari and Sima Shachar
2012 Before Dawn, Beit Shturman, En Harod; guest curator: Smadar Schindler
2011 Galerie Artesol, Solothurn, Switzerland
Public Library, Zichron Yaacov, Israel
2010 Desert Rhythms, Engine Gallery, Toronto
2009 Time Studies, Toronto Public Library, Fairview Branch
2006 Chagall - House, Haifa, Israel
2004 Canire, Art Gallery, Zichron Yaacov, Israel
2002 Sara Erman - Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997 Yadaiim, Jaffa, Israel
1992 Galerie zum Stadtturm, Aarau, CH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Wax&Layers, Artforum Ute Barth, Zurich
THE FLYING FIELD, Aufbauhaus CLB, Berlin, curated by Anne Schreiber and Sarah Alexander
Black Box by boeckercontemporary, Saarlaendisches Kuenstlerhaus, Saarbruecken
2017 Interference, Friedrich Gallery, Ein Hod, Israel
Freedom of Expression or Freedom of Temptation, Gallery Nitsana 14, Tel Aviv
Black Box by boeckercontemporary, Metz, France
Israeli Contemporary Landscape, Gallery MY, Zichron Yaacov
2016 Hatching Artist Group, Project #1, Eco, Compound for Events and Culture, Hadera
The Golden Calf, Ein Hod Gallery, Israel
2015 Silence, Ein Hod Gallery, Israel
2014 Ein-Hod -Gallery, Israel
2012 Talui – Art in Suspense, The First Aliyah Museum, Zichron Yaacov, curated by Revital Silverman
2010 neustART, Halde Gallery, Widen, Switzerland
The 2nd Annual Art Show, Israeli Artists Group, Macdonald House, Thornhill, Canada
Spring Show, Arta Gallery, Toronto
Growth, Engine Gallery, Toronto
Artzy, The 3rd Annual Multi-Media Art Exhibit, Toronto
2009 Engine Gallery, Distillery District, Toronto
The Israeli Artists Group of GTA, Macdonald House, Thornhill
2008 TIAF, Toronto International Art Fair (by Engine Gallery)
Watching the Bright, Arta Gallery, Distillery District, Toronto
2007 Colour and Form Society, 55th Annual Juried Show, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Art Gallery
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillip Square
Toronto Art Expo
2006 Toronto Art Expo, Canada
2002 Theatre of Haifa, Israel; curated by Doron Pollock and Smadar Schindler
Chagall- House, Haifa, Israel
1996 Yadaiim, Healing the Breach II, Jaffa, Israel
1991 Christmas - Exhibition, Museum of Art, Solothurn, CH
media
News
Wax & Layers, Artforum Ute Barth Zurich
2018 Residency Guest Atelier Dusseldorf, Germany
2017 Residency Guest Atelier Dusseldorf, Germany
2016 10th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown MA, USA
Publications
Contemporary Israeli Landscape, Magazine Zichron Yaacov, Nr. 565, page 36, 24.2.2017
International Viewpoints, /http://prowaxjournal.com/category/international-viewpoints/,
September 2014
Hatching, /httpp://www.magazin.org.il/inner.asp?page+235238, Zichron Yaacov Magazine, July 7, 2016
P@N, Lacraquelure, Fondation David Tafani, page 37, December 2015
Israeli Art Reality 5, page 112- 113, 2014
Can, Israeli Art Magazine, Nr. 28, page 12- 13, September 2013
"Gefen", Issue 847, page 25, Zichron Yaacov, 4.1.2013
Catalogue, "Talui – Art in Suspense", Zichron Yaacov 2012
"BVD", Israeli Magazine for Design, Nr.133, page 138, April – May 2011
"Desert Rhythms"," Shalom Toronto", by Moshe Mikanovsky, June 2011
"Shalom Toronto", Issue 289, page 37, Toronto, 28.1.2010
"Ve Jehi Or", Art Project for Chanukah, Theatre of Haifa, December 2002
"Healing the Breach II", Israeli Women Artists Facing Reality, November-December 1996
contact
myriam.f.levy@gmail.com
+972 54 9549182