Arlene Amaler-Raviv

Arlene Amaler-Raviv’s artistic trajectory spans four decades of dedication and prolific output, with numerous exhibitions locally and internationally. Her paintings hang in many private and public art collections throughout the world. Bringing them together for a retrospective exhibition would be well-earned recognition for the artist as well as a rewarding curatorial feat. A retrospective would track the painter’s creative journey from the intimate to the “other”; from her early portraits of “People Around Me”, under the tuition of Robert Hodgins, the colourful yet moody “Women and Interiors”, where whole areas of the picture start being effaced, painted over, concealing and revealing emptiness, silence and absences with poignant eloquence, through to the later paintings that move outwards focusing on urban alienation and struggle.

Historical turning points amplify the theme of urban alienation: the fall of the Iron Curtain, the end of Apartheid, the collapse of Wall Street, the uprising of Tahrir Square… At such junctures, major changes occur rapidly: the walls of segregation get demolished, world views collide, markets collapse, unemployment mushrooms, refugees are attacked, strikers are shot… This is a male world of power an...

BA Fine Arts degree under the tuition of Robert Hodgins- University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Higher Education Teachers’ Diploma, College of Education, Johannesburg

1979 Solo exhibition ‘25 portraits of 25 friends’ – Market Gallery, Johannesburg

1981 Solo exhibition ‘alienation of people around tables’ – Crake Gallery, JHB

1984 Group exhibition Israel -Herzlia Museum, Herzlia Pituach

1986 Group exhibition – Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

1986 Solo exhibition ‘Woman and Interior’ – Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

1986 Solo exhibition ‘musicians’ – N.S.A Gallery, Durban

1987 Group Exhibition – Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

1988 Group Exhibition – – Johannesburg Art Gallery

1989 Solo exhibition – ‘private and the public’ –Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

1990 Group Exhibition – ‘Vita Art Now’, Johannesburg Art Gallery

1990 Solo exhibition ‘In Search of (her)Self ‘– Gallery on the Market, Johannesburg

1990 Group Exhibition – Newton Gallery

1990 Group Exhibition ‘Six Johannesburg artists, six Cape Town artists’ Artists from Famous International Gallery (FIG) – Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town

1991 Group exhibition – ‘love, landscape and lonely escapes’ – Gallery on the Market, Newtown, Johannesburg

1992 Group exhibition ‘Breaking the Wall’ – Junction Night Club, Johannesburg

1993 Group exhibition ’Klapperkop’ – Association of A...