Rotem Reshef is a process-based action painter. Her artistic oeuvre presents a range of bodily gestures and techniques, such as imprinting, peeling, pouring and assembling natural and artificial sources and materials, that shape the various compositions over the different canvases. Reshef’s works deal with traces of human presence versus the appearance and disappearance of nature, as in the tradition of “Nature Morte”.
Among the themes in her work are ecological shifts and seasonal changes, research of the influence of colors, tones and shades on our emotions and perceptions, and the passage of time and the fleeting moment. Reshef’s “ghostly” paintings often present the remains of an object that was part of the creation and then was removed. By leaving “evidence” on her surfaces, Reshef creates contemporary, painterly fossils, that present the duration of the creative process and the different stages of art making, from start to finish.
As part of her practice, Reshef creates painting-installations that use scrolls of canvas in a three dimensional manner, offering an overlapping viewing experience for the viewers to immerse in. By incorporating ambitious large-scale formats and extensive tonalities that should be viewed in person, Reshef’s attention to detail and texture aims to resist art consumption solely via social media and the flat screen, and encourages art observance in real life.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Arcadia, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2019 ImaAbaBat, Illustration Week #6, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Eden in Two Acts, outdoor mural, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 In Situ, Milta, Rehovot, Israel
2019 IAILA booth, Art Palm Springs fair, Palm Springs, CA
2018 Ghost Library #32, Artist Wall, ArtSpace TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Spectrum, Soho House West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Intervals, outdoor mural, Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Fossils, A-La Rampa, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Time Traveler Part II: Compass, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA
2017 Something Blue, Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Time Traveler, University of La Verne, CA
2016 Phantom Stream, dual exhibition, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Israel
2016 Control l Release, Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Making a Mark, SVA, New York, NY
2010 Breadths of Spirit , Artists ́ House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2009 Orange Sunset, The Heder Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Internally: Emotional Landscapes from Israel, Hillel Art Gallery, USC, LA, CA
2019 Scroll of Perseverance, Art & Social Activism Festival, New York, NY
2019 Dreamin' of a..., Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Summer Salon, from the collection of the Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Concealed in Language, Municipal Art Gallery, Rishon Le-Zion , Israel
2018 Plaster 6, Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Art Swagger, DLR Group, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2018 Still Moving, Gray Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018 70.70.70. Jewish Federation, Santa Barbara, CA
2017 I Was Here, Cuckoo’s Nest, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 In My Garden, West Village, New York, NY
2017 Aiming for Touch(down), P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Collective Memory, Travelling exhibition, New York-Glasgow-Dublin
2016 Secret Art 8, Mani House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Plaster 4, Art for “Physicians for Human Rights”, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Iran Iran, Kaye College' Gallery, Be'er-Sheva, Israel
2015 Artists for Levinsky library, ArtSpace, Tel Aviv , Israel
2015 Scope Miami Beach, Miami, FL
2015 Italia Docet | Laboratorium, Venice Biennale, Italy
2015 Artist Wall, Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Summer Time, Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Annual Tallahassee International Exhibition, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2015 Refresh, Florentin45 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 The 53rd International Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, CA
2015 9xArtist's Walls, Art Space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2014 Emergence 2014, Gallerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
2014 A : / > fomat, Art Space TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2014 Nature vs. Media, [during Sundance], Park City, Utah
2013 A Picnic and Smokes, QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2012 A special project of art & fasion, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
2010 Home and Abroad Exhibition Series – The Broadway Gallery, NYC, NY
2010 Fresh Paint, The Heder Gallery Artists, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2010 4th International Arte Laguna Prize, Venice Arsenale, finalists exhibition
2009 Ain’t no Sunshine when she’s gone, the 4th Floor, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Painting-Law, The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Inaugural Exhibition, Susan Eley Fine Art, NY
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2015 SVA's Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2014 LICC London International Creative Competition - Honorable Mention
2010 First Prize Art&Business, 4th International Arte Laguna, Italy
1987 Scholarship for a promising young artist, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in USA, Israel, Europe and Australia
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Erev Rav | Learning to Paint All Over Again | December 2019
Portfolio | Rotem Reshef Wraps the World With Her Paintings | December 2019
ARToday | Eden in Tow Acts: Act I October 2019
Erev Rav | Weekly Recommendations - Exhibitions at the Artists House | July 2018
Jewish Journal | Rotem Reshef on Her New Art Series "Spectrum" | July 2018
Calcalist | Intervals Puzzeles the Spectators With Its Unique Technique | July 2018
Haaretz | A Front vs. "Want of Matter" | July 2018
Yediot | An Exhibition a Week | May 2018
Haaretz | Exibitions-Event Recommendations | June 2018
Portfolio Magazine | Windows to the Four Seasons | June 2018
At Magazine | The best shows for the summer
VC Reporter | Rotem Reshef: Time Traveler | March 2018
HuffPost | Rotem Reshef: Time of the Seasons | October 2017
Lyceum Cultural Events | Time Traveler by Rotem Reshef | October 2017
Wall Street International Magazine | Rotem Reshef | September 2017
ART AND CAKE | Rotem Reshef Time Traveler Installation | December 2017
Moorpark Patch | Rotem Reshef: Time Traveler | February 2017
Campus Times | Seasons Unspool Across the Lobby | September 2017
Artillery Magazine | Time Traveler | Tall Wall Space | October 2017
KROQ Local | Time Traveler at University of La Verne | October 2017
America Israel Cultural Foundation
Studio Visit Volume #37 | 2017
Studio Visit Volume #35 | 2016
Dumbo Feather | Rotem Reshef Paints With an Open Heart | October 2014
Arte Laguna Prize, Business for Art Prize | 2010
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