Yifat Shoham

MY ART REVEALS A NEW TYPE OF ROMANTICISM,A FIERCELY BOLD AND AGGRESSIVE FORM OF LONGING.MY PAINTING IS A PROCESS WHERE CONFLICTS ARE RAISED AND NOT ALWAYS RESOLVED.THE UNFOLDING DRAMA IS CATHARTIC AS IN A GREEK DRAMA.THE BRUSH STROKES AND PALETTE LYRICALLY EVOKE THE INDESCRIBABLE EMOTIONAL ATMOSPHERE OF MY PASSIONATE REALM.TWO DIFFERENT TRADITIONS CONVERGE WITHIN THE BODY OF MY WORK.REPRESENTATION AND ABSTRACTION DYNAMICALKY INHABIT THE SAME SPACE AS COMPATIBLE AND INCOMPATIBLE PHENOMENON.
UP TO DATE THE SUBJECTS OF MY PAINTINGS ARE PORTRAITS WHERE THE SUBJECT GET A CLOSE UP FOCUS POINT RELATION AS IN A WIDE CAMERA LENS STUDING THE HEAD.THE SURRONDING BECOME BLURRY.
THE PROCESS OF CREATING ONE PROTRAIT IS A TENDENCY OF ABSOLUTE IMMERSION WITH ONE'S CHARACTER:AS AN ACTOR WEARING HIS ROLE ON STAGE.THE SEARCH IS A JOURNEY AND REASONING . ,ALONG WITH IT THERE IS A QUEST FOR CLOSE IDENTIFICATION WITH INDIVIDUAL DEMEANOR IN ORDER TO REACH CLIMAX OF OBSERVATION.SOMETIMES IT IS SMOOTH AND AT TIMES IT CAN BECOME A SISYPHEAN TASK.

Hugim High School
1984-1985 Seminary for Art Teachers, Ramat Hasharon,Israel.
1990-1991 Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux Arts,Paris,France.
1986-1991 BFA,Bezalel Academy of Art,Jerusalem,Israel.

April 1997 'World" mural World, New York, New York
1997 Commissioned Portrait for Singer Jon Secada.
May 1992 Zeus Gallery , Haifa, Israel
August 1991 Taamon Coffee House Gallery, Jersusalem, Israel
Oct 2013 -exhibit & current member Ward-Nasse Gallery,New York ,New York