Steve Alderton

Pablo, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2016

I really enjoyed this job, it was a trip without expectations. I never imagined when the job was finished to fine the image of my great-grandfather. "Pedro Pablo...

This work is part of a series of portraits of friends/acquaintances/strangers painted during/inspired by an extended stay in Paris. The works are typical of the artist's expressive ...

This work is part of a series of portraits of friends/strangers painted after one of many extended stays in Paris. The painting is typical of the artist's expressionist style. :: ...

This work is part of a series of portraits of friends/strangers painted after an extended stay in Morocco. The work is typical of the artist's expressionist style and was part of th...

American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...

Untitled Dipinto is an oil and pastel on wood realized by Salvatore Travascio in 2010. Hand monogrammed on front and hand signed on rear. Excelle...

Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). Portrait, 1986. Oil on canvas, 11 x 13 inches. Unframed. Signed, dated and dedicated on verso. Excellent condition. Manuel Pard...

The painter Elie Shamir was born in 1953 in the village Kfar Yehoshua, studied at Bezalel, and participated in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad. This exhibition centers on Shamir’s work dealing with his birthplace. After years spent in Jerusalem and Boston, Shamir returned to the village in 1999 and resettled there, as the third generation of the place’s founders. The issue of place is present with great force and complexity in Shamir’s work; aspects of this issue pertain, among others, to that tangled knot which is tied and unraveled throughout the generations between the Jew and the land, between the immigrant and the native-born, between the local Arab and the Hebrew pioneer and his vision, between the farmer and his field. The clumps of earth in Shamir’s paintings are placed on geological strata charged with biblical past, with primeval culture, with Zionist history, with socio-economic ideology, with artistic tradition but also with his own personal family story. Kfar Yehoshua is both a personal, specific case of an agriculturBorn 1953, Kfar Yehoshua, Israel Education 1981 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1996 MA, Based on exhibitions and publications Selected Group Exhibition 1986 "The First Line", Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Ein Harod. "International Festival of Paintings, Cagne Sur Mer, France 1987 "Visiting Card", The Gallery of the Art Department., Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem "Abraham's Sacrifice"'או "Sacrifice of Isaacin Israeli Art" The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan 1988 "Fresh Paint", Tel Aviv Museum of art, Tel Aviv "Portrait of a City"', Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa "Prints", Meimad Gallery, Tel Aviv 1989 "New Acquisitions", Tel Aviv Museum of art, Tel Aviv "New Acquisitions", Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa "Via Maris", Bat Yam Museum "International Biennale of Prints", Ljublijana, Yugoslavia 1990 "Winter Exhibition", Different Angle Gallery, Boston 1991 "Winter Exhibition", Different Angle Gallery, Boston 1993 "Locus", Contemporary Art from Israel...