Dganit Zauberman

Memories, intuitive processes, and curiosity drive my work.

As a native of Israel, I grew up in a Kibbutz, a cooperative community based on
agriculture. From early on, I observed the importance of land as not only a source of life but also as a source of struggle, separation, and death.

Now, with the current political and environmental climate, the subject of land continues to be essential to my work; it has, if anything, become even more important in recent years.

In my work, I am searching for what is felt and tangible, along with the intangible.
Pulling from a reservoir of my everyday life experiences, memories and imagination, I intuitively construct a “place”— a resemblance of a landscape that aims to present an idea of land that is composed of multiple layers, including the cycle of life and death, history, and geology.

I focus not only on land’s physical “being” — the form, texture, and smell, along with the process by which it forms, moves and erodes—but also land as a source of emotional and psychological mood.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA MFA
Painting and Drawing, 2011

University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA BFA with Honors, Painting and Drawing, 2008