Artists > Ophra Eyal Gur Arie

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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.

|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
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