Naomi Shalev

I make collages from magazine clippings for almost 20 years.
Once a friend gave me his “Playboy” and “Hustler” collections, because he didn’t need them anymore. I also didn’t quite know what to do with all this stuff...
So I started to cutting out pictures and to combining them into funny compositions.
I had no better idea at that time.
Then, I began to look for ways to make bigger compositions - I have always liked large scaled projects. This is how the technique in which I work till this day was born - using scraps of magazine pages instead of brushes and paints: Journal painting.
I am very interested in human feelings, relationships, people and myself. This is my unlimited material for creativity. In my collages I'm trying to create a perfect, exciting, beautiful world of my own, using what is. In every possible meaning of the word.

B.Sc.T.E Tel-Aviv university, Art & Design

Solo Exhibitions:

2020
"Cut&Paste" - Siman Sheela Gallery, Amir

2019
"Underpants" - N.D Gallery, Ramat Gan

Exhibition sale - exhibition space in Kibbutz Hanita

Group Exhibitions:

2020
"Out of the Box" - Street Gallery, Old Jaffa. As Part of the "ARTiq" Project

"Portraits - Transition and beyond" - Rehovot Municipal Art Gallery

2019
"Her Dress - her Symbol" - Agripas Gallery, Jerusalem

"Out of the Box" - Street Gallery, Old Jaffa. As part of the "ARTiq" Project

2018
"Politically correct " - Ein Hod's main Gallery

"Woman's Time" - Beit Yad Labanim, Haifa

"Open Houses" - Bat Galim Festival, Haifa

2017
"Israeli Art up to 2018 NIS" - Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv

2015
"Matkot - the most Israeli" - Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2014
"Supremely done" - Amiad Center, Jaffa

"2014" - "Migdalor" Gallery, Jaffa

"20 Years Later" International Exhibition - Central House of Artist, Moscow

The "Israeli Art" exhibition of Bank Hapoalim - Main Bank Branch, Tel Aviv