Artists > Ophra Eyal Gur Arie

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Selected Exhibitions
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Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 8 Cube Project, March 2012

Bazooka 2011, acrylic on canvas, 10x15cm

Dubble Bubble 2009, acrylic on canvas, 18x22cm

ET 2011, acrylic on canvas, 15x20cm

Etch and sketch 2010, acrylic on canvas, 20x25cm

White Playmobil 2009, acrylic on canvas, 10x15cm

Birds Guide 2009, acrylic on MDF, 20x28cm

Rockwell, Amazon 2011, acrylic on MDF, 25x25cm each

Blocks 2011, acrylic on MDF, size variable

Boxes Installation, acrylic on MDF, size variable

Cash 2011, acrylic on MDF, 50x60x50cm

Firetruck 2011, acrylic on MDF, 140x140cm

Kite 2011, acrylic on MDF, 120x140cm

Plasma (Sharp) 2011, acrylic on MDF, 100x120cm

Cylinders 2011, acrylic on MDF, size variable

Wallpaper 2011 (detail), acrylic on MDF, 160cm high

Born 1972, Lives in Ramat Gan and works in Tel Aviv

Ophra graduated from the Bezalel academy in Jerusalem (both BA and MFA studies). She also studied miniature painting and Tibetan painting in Berlin and Nepal. In Israel she participated in Hershberg and Aram Gershuni’s workshops.

By the act of painting Ophra creates a private archive. Her body of work is composed of series: one series reacts to the consumer world: she picks up gum wrappings, cigarettes boxes, matches, books, games etc, and paints them flat, in small formats, using custom made deep-stretched canvases. The result is paintings which themselves function as objects.

Another series is realistic paintings of small objects from Ophra’s private obsessive collections: toys, plastic dolls and small sculptures. Ophra paints items from her collections in the same obsessive manner that she collects them. Some paintings function as private jokes.

Her latest body of work deals with Trompe L'oiel. Boxes, books, card boards, old cassettes, all look like simple mundane objects are in fact meticulously and painstakingly built and painted sculptures and objects.