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.
Artists > Ophra Eyal Gur Arie
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