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Netta Lieber Sheffer
During her first years of painting (1999-2004) Netta Lieber Sheffer focused on the concept of Home, expressing it in images describing place, searching for elusive, unattainable domesticity. The paintings mostly describe architectural spaces.
Tackling Home as a place brought up the question of movement and migration. Paintings of ships and tents described a loose connection to the ground; drawings of caravans attempted to ground a place essentially designed for motion. Preoccupation with questions of place and shelter, along with a constant echo of danger, were expanded to questions of permanency versus migration.

Lieber Sheffer's latest paintings include scenarios in which figures have a significant role in space. The human figure appears especially in a narrative-descriptive context, mostly as part of a group. The group takes away the importance of the individual. It intensifies the feeling of sameness and increases foreignness and loss of individuality. Groups of people reappear in the paintings, as taking part in various historical events, or within an historical context of another time and place. There are groups of pioneers, draftees, schoolchildren, sport teams. Some appear in a contemporary context, as groups of nudist.

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|Sculpture and Mask 2013, oil on canvas, 120x140cm|Hoes 2010, oil on canvas, 120x140cm|Fantasy in Grey and Blue 2010. oil on canvas, 70x150cm|Rona sleeps 2013, oil on canvas, 220x120cm|Classroom 2010, oil on canvas, 30x40cm|In the Rain 2013, oil on canvas, 120x90cm|Sdom 2006, oil on canvas, 30x40cm|Ze'ev, Ze'ev 2011, oil on canvas, 40x180cm|Carriage 2011, oil on canvas, 100x140cm|City Sight, the Witnesses 2011, oil on canvas, 135x270cm|Hora Baccanalia 2011, oil on canvas, 135x270cm|Awakening 2011, oil on canvas, 100x200cm|Railroad Tracks 2011, oil on canvas, 100x200cm|Trip 2012, oil on canvas, 80x150cm|The Game 2008, oil on canvas, 120x140cm|Peppermint Night 2011, oil on canvas, 135x170cm|Vision 2011, oil on canvas, 150x270cm
Sculpture and Mask 2013, oil on canvas, 120x140cm
Hoes 2010, oil on canvas, 120x140cm
Fantasy in Grey and Blue 2010. oil on canvas, 70x150cm
Rona sleeps 2013, oil on canvas, 220x120cm
Classroom 2010, oil on canvas, 30x40cm
In the Rain 2013, oil on canvas, 120x90cm
Sdom 2006, oil on canvas, 30x40cm
Ze'ev, Ze'ev 2011, oil on canvas, 40x180cm
Carriage 2011, oil on canvas, 100x140cm
City Sight, the Witnesses 2011, oil on canvas, 135x270cm
Hora Baccanalia 2011, oil on canvas, 135x270cm
Awakening 2011, oil on canvas, 100x200cm
Railroad Tracks 2011, oil on canvas, 100x200cm
Trip 2012, oil on canvas, 80x150cm
The Game 2008, oil on canvas, 120x140cm
Peppermint Night 2011, oil on canvas, 135x170cm
Vision 2011, oil on canvas, 150x270cm