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Victor Raphael
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper

1996

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These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful. Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf. Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970 SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration. Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space (20-year survey with catalogue) Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue) Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, The Space Field Series Azurite Exhibitions, Los Angeles, Paintings, Drawings and Photocollages 1978-1981 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS LAX World Airport/Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Out of this World MASS MoCA, An Exchange with Sol LeWitt (catalogue) Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics/UCSB, SciArt 2011 Finegood Gallery, Jewish Ritual: Rethinking, Renewed Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, Memory and Transformation Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, La Estampa de Self Help Graphics Alinari National Museum of Photography, Florence, Italy, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (catalogue) Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, American Perspectives Jewish Museum, San Francisco, A Kiddush Cup Invitational Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, LA Current SELECTED CURATORIAL 2012 LAX World Airport/Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Out of this World - Terry Braunstein, Susanna Meiers, Victor Raphael, June Wayne 2010 The American Jewish University, The Rashi Effect: Artist as Commentator (with Elizabeth Bloom) 2009 Zimmer Children's Museum, Show & Tell: The Art of Language, An international Art Exhibition with 79 artists, including: Lita Albuquerque, John Baldessari, Terry Braunstein, Connor Everts, Mark Steven Greenfield, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Deloss McGraw, John W. Outterbridge, Sheila Pinkel, Edward Ruscha, Alison Saar, Peter Shire, June Wayne, and Ruth Weisberg. SELECTED COLLECTIONS Bibliotheque national de France Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Doheny Library, University of Southern California Griffin Museum of Photography Huan Tie Art Museum, Beijing, China Lehigh University Lewis and Laura Kruger Los Angeles County Museum of Art Monsanto Corporation Oregon Jewish Museum Polaroid Collection Pollock-Krasner Study Center Ruttenberg Arts Foundation Self-Help Graphics & Art Skirball Museum, Los Angeles The Sol LeWitt Collection Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography USC Fisher Museum of Art U.S. Trust Company Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University William Morris Agency Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Among works published are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp, text and photo combinations by Bill Barminski and Nancy Dwyer, and conceptual photographs by Kevin Hanley. Doug Aitken, Polly Apfelbaum, David Levinthal, Richard Long, Christian Marclay, Alyson Shotz, Uta Barth all have published with them.
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