Maya Paulina Dunsky

MAYA DUNSKY , is a multidisciplinary artist, a painter, Butoh dancer, and choreographer.
Her paintings are mainly large in size and each series maintains a structured logic and characterization as the diverse series are joined one to another through repetitive motives.
The content is weaved like from a bird eye view and the layers; transparent one on top of each other, form itself into harmonious mass characterized by inner motion.
As a colorist her main inspiration is Nature phenomenon both for technical use of color and for understanding the line and the spot as integrative essences.
In her art works there is a tension between "figurative"/"identified" to abstract and between endless charged spaces to defined matter.
An abstract atmosphere is formed free of a "story", even in the presence of familiar objects.
Maya creates and exhibit her art works in Israel & abroad. She facilitates a unique painting workshops called "Space- Color -Consciousness", a method she developed.
Her art works are found in museums & privet collection in Israel, New-York, Tokyo, Paris, Basel and Berlin.
She lived, studied and created in Japan for 6 years.

In tandem to her way of life as a painter she is a Butoh artist .She paved her way ...

Studies in Israel
1979 Fine Arts, Ein-Hod artists Village
1980-81 Graphic design, Wizo, College for design, Haifa, Israel
1979-1982 Creative dance & choreography, studio Yardena Cohen & studio Ruth Eshel

Studies in Japan
1985-1987 Butoh Dance with its founder Ohno Kazuo
1986-1992 Percussion with the Japanese Musician Kei Masuda

Solo Exhibitions

1987 Kyoni Gallery, Tokyo
1989 Tirosh Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1990 “Insane Flowers”, Ronit Stern, Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
1990 “Insane Flowers”, Tivon Art Center, Israel
1993 Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel [catalogue]
1993 Rosh Hanikra Gallery, Israel
1994 The New Gallery, Beit Aba Hushi, Israel
1997 “Sky Abyss”, Haifa Museum. The National Maritime Museum, Israel [catalogue]
2003 "Critical Mass" , 11 oil paintings, 1 video dance, Nessya Art Gallery , Israel



Group exhibitions

1982 Young Artists Biennale, Museum of Modern art, Haifa, Israel
1984 “The White Exhibition”, Dizengoff Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1984 Artists House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1984 Artists House, Haifa, Israel
1986 Ueno Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [catalogue]
1988 “Tokyo Transmission “88”, Seibu, Tokyo [catalogue]
1990 Givat Haviva Art Center, Israel
1992 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1994 4th Art Fair, Istanbul
1994 Shalo...