Andi Arnovitz

I believe art is one of the most powerful tools in creating social change. My artistic goal is to seduce the viewer visually and then inspire both an intellectual and an emotional response that challenges beliefs, creates awareness, or prompts engagement with a given issue.

My artistic practice focuses on the flash-points where gender, religion and politics meet. Of great concern to me are issues where personal agency is hindered by religion and or politics. In the past I have explored issues of domestic violence, reproductive freedom, abuses of power where church and state are entwined, nuclear proliferation, and currently, problems of climate change.

I am interested in these places of friction, the territory where things are not all black and white, and where we, as human beings have the potential to create change, or to find common ground. In my work I search for vehicles to share the human condition.

I work in a variety of media, with fabrics, printmaking processes, paper and porcelain. Much of my artistic practice is focused on creating statements through the use of multiples: thousands of prayers, thousands of paper scrolls, thousands of rods of clay, thousands of pieces of paper, hundreds of pieces of resin, all ...

BFA: Washington University in St. Louis

A few of the recent exhibitions:
NO Name” Beit Omanim Tel Aviv January 2020
“Trespassing” The Islamic Museum, Jerusalem 2020
“Breaching Borders” the 16th International Tapestry Triennal in Lodz, Poland, October 2019
“Relationships” HUC Museum, NY, New York September 2019
“Living Under Water” The Jerusalem Biennale of Jewish Art, October 2019
“Talking Rugs” Ben Gurion University, November 2019
“Between Right and Left”, Central Gallery, Tel Aviv, April 2019
“Cherchez La Femme” Stadhaus Ulm, Germany Summer 2019
“Visions of Place” Susquehanna Art Museum, February-May 2019
“The Dress -Her symbol: Antea returns” Agrippas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, April 2019
“Text and Image: Book Artists engage with the Bible” Yale University May 2019
"Evolutionary Tradition: Asian Contemporary Print Art Exhibition” Sichuan Fine Art Institute Museum, Chongqing, China, March 2019
“From the Artist’s Dairy” Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa, November 2018
“Israeli Spirit” Eretz Israel Museum, October 2018
“The Artist Book” Agrippas 12 Gallery October 2018
“Hamsa, Hamsa, Hamsa” The Islamic Museum, Jerusalem, May, 2018
“70 years: Individual/State” Trumpeldor Gallery, Be’ersheva, June, 2018
Territories Unraveled,” The Jerusalem Artist’s Hou...