Art by Medium: Felt

This depicts KIng David reciting Psalms, Hallelujah in Hebrew Kopel Gurwin (Hebrew: קופל גורבין‎) (1923–1990) was an Israeli tapestry wall hanging, painter and graphic artist. Kopel (Kopke') Gurwin (Gurwitz) was born and raised in Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. He spoke Yiddish at home, but simultaneously studied Hebrew at their school which was part of the Tarbut educational network. Kopel was active in the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. In the 1930s, as a teenager, Kopel helped his parents with the home finances by working in a suit workshop, there he first encountered the art of sewing. With the outbreak of the Second World War and the German invasion of Vilna, the Jews were imprisoned in camps and ghettos. Kopel and his brother Moshe were separated from their parents and were put to work in coal mines and peat. Kopel's parents were taken to the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp where they died of typhus within a month of each other. Kopel's 12-year-old sister Chava was turned over to the Germans by a Polish family and murdered. The brothers were arrested by the Germans, but were saved thanks to the connections of Nina Gerstein, Kopel's drama teacher. They hid in an attic until they were discovered, fled and moved to Riga, where they were caught and sent to the Stutthof concentration camp where they were imprisoned until the end of the war. They were put to work maintaining and cleaning trains and took part in one of the death marches. In July 1946, Kopel and Moshe sailed to Helsingborg, Sweden, as part of operation "Folke Bernadotte", in which Sweden took in ill survivors for rehabilitation. Once he recovered, Kopel worked in a publishing house and later was appointed director of the local branch of the Halutz movement. In 1950 Kopel and Moshe made aliyah to Israel. Kopel worked as a survey for the Survey of Israel Company. In 1951, he enlisted to the Communication Corps and served as a military draftsman. There he won first prize for the design of the front cover of the Communication Corps bulletin. With his discharge from the army at 29 he started studying drawing and graphics at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Among his teachers were Isidor Ascheim, Shlomo Vitkin, Yossi Stern and Jacob Steinhardt. At the end of his first year of study, Kopel won the Reuben and Sarah Lif Excellence Award in written studies. During his studies he also won additional prizes: In 1956 he won first prize from the Lethem Foundation in California for poster design. Later the same year, Kopel won the Hermann Struck prize for his drawing on the theme of Jerusalem. In 1957 he won an additional first prize from the Lethem Foundation and second place from the printing company Ortzel for a drawing for a Jewish New Year greeting card. In 1958 he won first prize in a competition to design a poster for Tel Aviv's jubilee. Two years later he won three other awards: First and third prize for designing a poster for Israel Independence Day, celebrating 12 years of the State of Israel. Also that year Kopel won first prize for a poster to mark the 25th Zionist Congress. In 1964 he entered the Independence Day poster competition on the theme of aliyah and won first and second prize. Four years later he again entered the competition on the theme of 20 years of Israel's independence and won first prize. The poster was styled like a Holy Ark curtain with two lions and a menorah at its centre. This poster appeared on the cover of the famous book Jewish Art and Civilization, edited by Geoffrey Wigoder as well as the record Voices of 20 Years, 1948-1968, edited by Yossi Godard. In April 1971 he won first prize in the Independence Day poster competition for the fourth time. Kopel's Folk Art tapestry won the Israeli Independence Day Poster Contest in 1968 With the completion of his studies at Bezalel Kopel moved to Tel Aviv and was hired by Shmuel Grundman's graphics and design studio. Grundman took him to Europe with him to design and supervise the construction of Israeli exhibition pavilions. During his time at Grundman's he discovered the fibrous felt from which he produced most of his wall hangings. At the 1964 Levant Fair exhibition he used felt stuck onto wooden panels for the first time. The first felt wall hanging that Kopel produced was intended for the American Cultural Centre in Jerusalem and its theme was the United States Declaration of Independence. The wall hanging, which measured 2.85 X 1.85 meters, was stuck on a wooden panel. Kopel ordered rolls of felt from France and began work on wall hangings based on bible stories. He used a needle, hand sewing small even stitches with black embroidery thread which framed and highlighted every detail in the work, as well as using appliqué. The interior designer, Alufa Koljer-Elem, introduced him to Ruth Dayan who managed the shop Maskit in September 1967 he opened his first solo exhibition at the Maskit 6 gallery, in which 12 wall hangings were displayed. In light of the exhibition at Maskit 6, Meira Gera, the director of artistic activity at the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, organized an additional exhibition of his works at the foundation's exhibition hall in New York City. The exhibition sparked immense press interest, and was also displayed for a few months at the New York Jewish Museum, from where it travelled throughout the United States. Followed by the exhibition at the Delson-Richter gallery in Old Jaffa, which was later also exhibited at the Jerusalem Theatre. Kopel's tapestry "The Time for Singing has Arrived" was printed on a UNICEF greeting card in 1978 and again in 1981. The Israeli Philatelic Service issued three stamps based on three of Kopel's holy ark curtains and one stamp based on an Independence Day poster he designed. Kopel's creations decorate a large number of synagogues, public buildings, hotels and private collections which were purchased in Israel and around the world. They have decorated, among others, the walls of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the VIP room at Ben Gurion Airport, the Kfar Saba theatre and the Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now artists like Israel Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, David Sharir, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Exhibitions: 1995 The Knesset Jerusalem 1988 Temple Beth Shalom Miami, Florida 1988 University of Jewish Studies Los Angeles 1987 Israel Congregation on the Northern Coast Chicago 1985 Jerusalem Theatre Jerusalem 1984 Tenafly New Jersey 1983 Horace Richter Gallery Old Jaffa 1974 Jerusalem Theatre Jerusalem 1974 Delson Richter Gallery Old Jaffa 1972 University of Jewish Studies Miami, Florida 1971 Jewish Museum New York 1970 Norman Gallery Canada 1970 Sharei Tzedek Congregation Winnipeg, Canada 1970 Gallery of the Year Los Angeles 1970 Gallery of the Year Scottsdale 1969 Gleeman Gallery Chicago 1969 Israel Congregation of the Northern Coast Chicago 1967 Maskit 6 Tel Aviv Prizes: 1971 First Independence Day poster 1971, 23 yeaes of the State of Israel 1969 Second International Tel Aviv poster...

Emma delicately cuts images, especially trees, from a medium like felt or paper and pins them minutely to their chosen background, raised ethereally from the surface, forming beautif...

Dive Icehhi 1 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstraction ...

Dive Icehhi 6 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstraction ...

The title of Benjamin Heller’s group of sculptures, “Inner Tidal” refers to an “Intertidal Zone”, which is the edge of an ecosystem that is alternately above and below the waterline ...

A mon Takkury 8 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstractio...

'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Gray Arch, 2018 Dry wool needle felting 48 x 32 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Universe in Oax...

'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...

'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...

The Fifth Element (Black Cloud), February 2020 Acrylic spray paint on fireproof theatrical felt and lighting 72 x 108 inches (9 panels each 24 x 36") Signed, annotated and numbered...

'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...

Headdress; knitted, crocheted, and felted yarn, embroideries, pearls and ceramic

Drawing on paper, old photography, pearls, glass button, felted lace.

Drawing on paper, old photography, pearls and felt.

Headdresses; embroideries, felted and crocheted yarn, stones, linen, and old photography.

Lorna Simpson Recall, 1998 Silkscreen on felt 30 x 22 inches Edition of 50 Hand signed and numbered by the artist

Screenprint in colours on laminated vacuum formed vinyl, with felt, Plexiglas, and rayon cord, 1966, signed and numbered in pencil on the verso, from the edition of 125, published by...

'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...

Original Sam Sidney felt collage depicting a NYC Pretzel. The felt collage is mounted on acid free board, within white-painted shadow box frame. Signed & D...

Emma delicately cuts images, especially trees, from a medium like felt or paper and pins them minutely to their chosen background, raised ethereally from the surface, forming beautif...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, And Then the Rain Came, 2023 Dry wool needle felting 72 x 48 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Un...

Sz: 6 3/8"H x 8 1/4"W

JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...

Gary Goldberg Birthing Mother, 2023 Dry wool needle felting 48 x 32 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Mesa Prieta Petroglyphs (in New Mexico) series has be...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Night Sky, 2018 Dry wool needle felting 48 x 32 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Universe in Oax...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Lightning, 2018 Dry wool needle felting 48 x 32 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Universe in Oax...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Red Band in the Universe, 2023 Dry wool needle felting 72 x 48 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the ...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Blue Horizon, 2018 Dry wool needle felting 48 x 120 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Universe i...

Dive Icehhi 6 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstraction ...

Groot Foundation Honorable Mention Recipient 2025 "My work, both in painting and sculpture, involve networks of intricately connected, overlapping, and morphing shapes and patterns,...

Into the Faiinn 4 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstract...

Dive Icehhi 1 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstraction ...

Into the Faiinn 6 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstract...

Into the Faiinn 4 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstract...

Into the Faiinn 6 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstract...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Pink on Pink, 2022 Dry wool needle felting 72 x 48 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Universe in ...

Dive Icehhi 6 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstraction ...

A mon Takkury 8 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, felt tip colored and color tape on paper - Unframed Philippe Halaburda is a French artist who has coined the term Geographic Abstractio...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Yellow, Orange Pole, 2023 Dry wool needle felting 72 x 48 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Unive...

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Yellow, with Two Red Bands, 2020 Textile, wool felting 48 x 32 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the ...

Original Sam Sidney felt collage depicting Keith Haring. The felt collage is mounted on acid free board, within white-painted shadow box frame. Signed & Da...

Original Sam Sidney felt collage depicting Fran Lebowitz. The felt collage is mounted on acid free board, within white-painted shadow box frame. Signed ...

Mixed media With felt and glitter on silkscreen. Hand signed and numbered by the artist.. Edition of 250. Artwork image size approx 23.5 x 33.5 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Ar...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Serie "U no és ningú" No. 21 by Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) Acrylic, felt and pencil on cardboard 50 x 65 cm (19 ³...

Original Sam Sidney felt collage depicting a NYC street cart Gyro. The felt collage is mounted on acid free board, within white-painted shadow box frame. S...

Contemporary mixed media artwork by Julien Tomasello. Julien Tomasello is a multi-disciplinary artist who typically works in collage, sculpture, and ...

Original Sam Sidney felt collage depicting Andy Warhol. The felt collage is mounted on acid free board, within white-painted shadow box frame. Signed & Dat...

Julien Tomasello is a multi-disciplinary artist based in San Francisco Bay, CA. Collage is one of Julien’s main forms of art. His collage works are ...

Christo's portfolio of 10 prints and a scale model sculpture of the ‘5,600 Cubic Meter Package’ for Documenta 4 in Kassel, 1968 (height 68 cm). Sold in white vinyl portfolio box. The...

Alix Waline is a French artist known for her large-scale, in-situ drawings that blur the line between fine and decorative arts. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and La Cambr...

Alix Waline is a French artist known for her large-scale, in-situ drawings that blur the line between fine and decorative arts. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and La Cambr...

Alix Waline is a French artist known for her large-scale, in-situ drawings that blur the line between fine and decorative arts. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and La Cambr...

Alix Waline is a French artist known for her large-scale, in-situ drawings that blur the line between fine and decorative arts. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and La Cambr...

Alix Waline is a French artist known for her large-scale, in-situ drawings that blur the line between fine and decorative arts. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and La Cambr...

- Pastel drawing on felt. - Recto-verso drawing. - Circa 1920. Dimensions H: 50.5 cm W: 31.4 cm.H: 19.88 in W: 12.36 in (unframed) H: 51 cm W: 41 cm/H: 20.08 in W: 16.14 in (framed)

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Sunset, 2018 Dry wool needle felting 48 x 32 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Universe in Oaxaca...