Silvia Bar-Am

Dr. Gideon Ofrat on Walls and Voices Catalogue
I have looked over the photographs of the paintings that you sent me. These are amazingly beautiful paintings, masterpieces of composition, harmony and spirituality. Inspired by them, I began to compose in my head an article that I would write for the catalogue, and I pondered the version - stone + light - that Anna Ticho had bequeathed to the paintings of Jerusalem since the 1930s. Later, I reviewed in my mind the paintings of the sparkling walls drawn by Yehoshua Grossbard of Haifa; the series of Jerusalem walls in their transcendental silence, drawn by Michael Gross; and even the walls of the houses in Gaza drawn by Michael Kovner. And specifically in comparison to all these, I felt the power and uniqueness of your paintings. I am well aware of the covenant between simplicity, superficiality and a wall. Your current paintings derive from an empirical look at reality, but they confirm simplicity, and it is better this way - they cancel out the seeming contrast between superficiality and realism. The experience of viewing them shakes the eye and the soul between the closed (half a dark window, a locked blue gate, a shaded door) and the open (such as blurring / welding / melting the c...

Born in Buenos Aires, lives in Jerusalem, Israel


1972-74 Helena Rubinstein Museum, Tel Aviv
1973-75 Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University
1975-77 Avni Art Institute, Tel Aviv
1990-91 Studied with Israel Hershberg
1998-2011 International Landscape Painting Marathon, Jerusalem

Solo Exhibitions
1982 The Municipal Gallery, Jerusalem
1985 Nora Gallery, Jerusalem
1986 Municipal Gallery, Ashkelon
1987 Artists House, Jerusalem
1996 Artists House , Jerusalem
2003 Artspace, Jerusalem
2008 Ha galeria HaAcheret, Tel-Aviv
2012 Artspace, Jerusalem

1972-74 Helena Rubinstein Museum, Tel Aviv
1973-75 Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University
1975-77 Avni Art Institute, Tel Aviv. Studied with Steimatzky, Vexler, Lavi etc.
1990-91 Studied with Israel Hershberg
1998-2011 International Landscape Painting Marathon, Jerusalem

Artists Residency
2010 JSS Artists Residency Program in Italy. Guest Artist Lennart Anderson.
2013 Masterclass and Residency Program, Civita Castellana, Italy.

Prizes
2000 Mordechai and Shoshana Ish-Shalom Prize for Jerusalem Artists

Teaching
2001-2010 Yehuda Ha-Macabe studio, Jerusalem
2008-2012 Michlalah College, Jerusalem
2011-2012 Emuna College, Jerus...

Solo Exhibitions

1982 The Municipal Gallery, Jerusalem
1985 Nora Gallery, Jerusalem
1986 Municipal Gallery, Ashkelon
1987 Artists House, Jerusalem
1996 Artists House , Jerusalem
2003 Artspace, Jerusalem
2008 Ha galeria HaAcheret, Tel-Aviv
2012 "Walls and Voices" Artspace, Jerusalem
2015 "The Coming Light" . A Tribute to Jerusalem through Still Life and Landscape
Young Israel, B. Hills. California
2017 "Light Expanses" Orryta Gallery. Curator Liora Levi. Hoshaya


Group Exhibitions

1972 Helena Rubinstein Museum, Tel Aviv
1977 Jerusalem Theatre Gallery
1999 “As a view in those days at this time”, traveling exhibit sponsored
by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Cyprus-Greece
1998 “Art-Faith” – Gerard Bechar Jerusalem, Curator Amitai Mendelsohn
1999 Populus Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Amitai Mendelsohn
2001 “Sketches”, Biennale – “Sketching in Israel Today” Curator Ilan Vizgen
2001-2 “Visions From Here II” Israel Museum, Curator Amitai Mendelsohn
2003 “Art in a Box”, Sotheby’s, London, Public Auction
2004 Time for Art, Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv, Curator Gideon Ofrat
2004 The II Drawig Biennale, Jerusalem
2004 Artspace, Jerusalem.
2007 “Adam ma” Oman art Mihlala, Jerusa...