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July 2024

I am happy to share my most up-to-date Wikipedia page

Rotem Reshef (Hebrew: רתם רשף; born 1964) is an Israeli-American abstract painter and site-specific installation artist known for her process-based action painting technique and large-scale works, characterized by vivid and exuberant compositions. She works and lives in Tel Aviv and New York.[1] She presented solo museum exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, New York, the Bakersfield Museum of Art in Bakersfield, California and at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv.

"Summer Yield" group exhibition at Gambit Works Gallery, Flanders, NY

Two New Group Exhibitions, Summer 2024

May 2024

During May-June 2024, I will participate in two new group exhibitions, "Traces: Memory, Nature and the Body," at the SVA Flatiron Gallery in NYC and "Summer Yield," at Gambit Works Gallery in Flanders, NY.

“Traces: Memory, Nature and the Body," group exhibition, NYC

I am happy to participate in the School of Visual Arts (SVA) group exhibition: “Traces: Memory, Nature and the Body,” featuring artworks from five artists and alumni of SVA’s Artist Residency programs. Each artist presents a unique perspective on the intersection of humanity and nature, shedding light on how actions, emotions, and memories intertwine with the natural world, exploring themes such as environmental degradation, conservation, spirituality, memorialization, and the intrinsic connection between humans and their surroundings. The exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, May 29, through Wednesday, June 5.

Reception, June 5, 2024, 5:00-7:00 pm

SVA Flatiron Gallery

133-141 West 21st Street, New York

Gallery Hours: 10 am - 6 pm, Monday - Sunday

"Summer Yield" group exhibition at Gambit Works Gallery, Flanders, NY

Another fun exhibition I'm participating in is "Summer's Yield," a group show organized by Gambit Works Gallery and Campo Cuttica in Flanders, NY, on view June 8 - July 1.

The opening event will take place June 8, 5:00-9:00 pm, and will include a 40-acre nature preserve and arts compound, six open studios by residence artists, live music, a bonfire, food, and wine. I would love to meet you there as well.

Campo Cuttica

12 Whitebrook Drive

Flanders, New York 11901 

"Family of Earth" - New Solo Exhibition

January 2024

A dialogue between Reshef's art installation and the visionary ideas and actions of her great-grandfather, Moshe Smilansky.

Opening Reception, 19 January, at 10:30 am

Gallery Talk, 23 February, at 10:30 am

Rotem Reshef's work in recent years sheds light on materials that were perceived as waste, unnecessary, or outdated while imprinting them on enormous scrolls of canvas (one of those displayed in the exhibition is 82 feet long). She paints a ghostly presence of phantom memories, of what seems to have ceased to exist, but yet is rediscovered in a different way, drawing attention to the small details that make up personal experiences.

In her most recent solo exhibition, “Family of Earth,” Reshef references the life and work of her great grandfather, Moshe Smilansky, a Zionist leader who advocated peaceful coexistence with the Arabs in Mandatory Palestine and whose social and ideological entrepreneurship marks one of the highlights of an era that seems long gone. “Family of Earth” collides nostalgia with an elegy, on what was then and what has turned out to be the present days of past eras’ vision.

Reshef wraps and soaks “testimonial objects” she collects in paint while leaving their marks before being removed from the canvas. Through the process of wrapping and peeling, Reshef seeks to tell a story and present an experience and ideas - some concrete, some abstract - that will be discovered by the visitors to the exhibition.

On the canvases remains a kind of mental landscape composed of geological fossils, an artistic testimony of collective and personal memories of the past that connect to the turbulent present.

In this processed, fragmentary reconstruction, based on observation and distancing, Reshef invites viewers to meditatively wander along the sprawling scroll paintings and, through their journey, share a universal experience of introspection and healing.