Boaz Vaadia Art
American, 1951-2017
Born in Gat Rimon in 1951, Vaadia grew up in a rural community where his parents, Nissim Vaadia and Rivka Horozlaski, farmed strawberries. In 1968, he enrolled at the Avni Institute of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv but was drafted into the Israeli Army just a year later. After completing his service, he returned to school and began teaching there after graduating. In 1975, with a grant from America-Israel Cultural Foundation, he relocated to New York, where he studied at the Pratt Institute. The artist said he thought the move was “the worst mistake of my life,” but “within one week I actually recognized that the urban environment of New York is as natural as my village.”
Vaadia began collecting materials such as slate, shingles, bluestone, and boulders after he discovered an ongoing construction project near his studio in SoHo. As workers ripped up the bluestone sidewalk, Vaadia carried the discarded material to his loft, where he worked with a hammer and chisel to further expose the sedimentary layers of the rocks. Inspired by the stratified layers, he began creating sculptures that echoed the natural composition of his materials.
As his artistic output grew, he relocated to a studio in Williamsburg and started collecting boulders, but he was eventually forced to order materials. Primarily named after biblical figures, his public works can be found outdoors in parks and in front of businesses, as well as in the collections of institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, SF MoMA, the Bass Museum of Art, and the Tel Aviv Museum.to
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Hattush
By Boaz Vaadia
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This small, pedestal sized or table top sculpture by Israeli artist, Boaz Vaaida is a rare find. Very few small works, such as this are available. Cast in bronze from an original s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Boaz Vaadia Art
Materials
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Uzziyya
By Boaz Vaadia
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This sculpture is edition 2/7, cast posthumously by the Boaz Vaadia Estate.
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Materials
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Eli'av
By Boaz Vaadia
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A remarkable example of Boaz Vaadia's distinctive approach to contemporary figurative sculpture, using bronze and bluestone to create a layered, stratified effect reminiscent of natu...
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1990s Contemporary Boaz Vaadia Art
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Haza'el
By Boaz Vaadia
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Vaadia says of his work, “By using the natural forces of rocks, my work awakens ancient ‘earth senses’ that were slowly abandoned by man during his evolution to civilization. By carv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Boaz Vaadia Art
Materials
Bluestone, Bronze
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