Yoella Razili

Yoella Razili is an Israeli-born artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.

Her work belongs to the non-objective art movement and spans a range of media including found materials and paint.

Razili received her Master of Fine Arts from Otis Art Institute in 1981. Since then, she has exhibited her artwork internationally in the USA, Israel, Korea, France, and Italy.

Razili’s conceptual objects are built from found scraps of wood which are brought to the studio to be reworked. Her constructions are guided by the Minimalism art movement and Arte Povera. Artists like Antoni Tapies, Cy Twombly, Donald Judd, and Richard Tuttle influenced her work greatly.

She applies lessons learned about form, texture, color, and the purity of materials into the creation of new objects. The found materials, which carry their own history, are processed and joined with paint to create a new poetic architecture.

The rebuilt objects have there own existence, an existence that presents balance, unity, and stillness.

1981 MFA Otis Art Institute

1978 BFA Otis Art Institute

1975 Teaching Certificate in Painting, Oranim Art Institute, Haifa University, Israel

Solo Exhibitions:

2017 Materials and Methods, Ann Gooding Room, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Wood and Paint, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

2008 Recent Work, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Recent Work, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

2002 Non Objective, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

1999 Tandem Solo, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

1997 Tandem Solo, The Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA

1996 Tandem Solo, The Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA

1993 Drawing, Insomnia Café, Sherman Oaks, CA

1983 Recent Drawing, Fullerton Center Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA

Selected Exhibitions:

2021 Black Box group exhibition, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany

2021 Three Minimalist Artists, Dayton, OH

2020 Art Matters 2, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

2018 Color Affinities, Key Projects Art Space, Long Island City, NY

2018 Destill: A survey of contemporary art, Track One, Nashville, TN

2018 Maniac 6, the Urban Hive, Sacramento, CA

2018 Group show, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX

2018 Introductions 2018, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Random, Paul Williams Gallery, Ontario, CA

2018 Que du Cercle, l’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France

2017 Black Box, postcards g...