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Exhibitions
Brave New World: Recent Photographs by Assaf Evron and Oded Hirsch
(on view October 2011-March 2012)
In Brave New World, Israeli artists Assaf Evron and Oded Hirsch use photography to examine the effects of post-industrialization on marginalized communities in Israel. Both artists engage with the economic realities of disparate minority groups within Israeli society; for Evron, these are the metal scrap gatherers in his native Tel Aviv and for Hirsch, the members of Kibbutz Afikim in the Jordan Valley, where the artist was born and raised. While Evron responds to the unofficial shadow economies that have emerged through the inequities of globalization, Hirsch questions the ethos of the socialist movement pioneered by the kibbutzim. Although they employ different approaches, both artists explore themes of alienation in a brave new world of declining idealism, increasing privatization and complex power relations.
Artis is a nonprofit that supports and promotes contemporary visual artists from Israel. They advance opportunities for cultural understanding and dialogue through artist commissions, talks and events; professional development and research initiatives for artists and arts professionals; project-specific grants; and our online resource, www.artiscontemporary.org.
Artis is a grantee of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
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Exhibits Archive
The office is also home to a small collection of mission related photographs and original art that reinforce the theme of access and opportunity. The gallery includes works by:
Bruce Davidson, East 100th Street Façade, 1966-68 a wonderful view of daily life in York City as lived by residents of East Harlem.
Matt Ducklo, The Burghers of Calais, 1888 The Brooklyn Museum and Young Girl with Flowers in her Hair, 1865-70 The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2007, moving pieces from this Queens-based photographer, that chronicle the experiences of a blind woman and young boy as they view sculpture through touch.
Edward Ruscha, The Last Ray of Hope, 1982, a strong graphic sentiment.
Yehudit Sasportas, The Dream of the Unspoken, 2007, a commissioned work by an Israeli artist that captures the awesome scale of the natural world.