ArtSpace TLV Gallery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
14 November, 2019 - 30 November, 2019
New paintings from the series Habitat, 2019, will be on view at ArtSpace Art Gallery starting this coming weekend. These are conceptual portraits that merge between my own items of clothing and a more general female presence. The figure is dissolving from within the landscape, confronting the world and standing in place, determined not to disappear.
ArtSpace Tel Aviv
November 2019
Artists' House, Tel Aviv
21 November, 2019
My outdoor mural fronting the Artists’ House in Tel Aviv, Eden in Two Acts, seeks to amalgamate the platform of public space with the second round of the 2019 elections, and to offer a means of visual activism that will hopefully have a butterfly effect and reverberate beyond the bounds of the art world.
The first act, which opened in August 2019, presented an idyllic landscape scenery that was disturbed by red stains that tried to take over, symbolizing corrupted government that aimed to erase morality and peacefulness.
The second act, coming up in mid November while the results of the elections are not quite clear, aims to bring a wave of clean water to erase the stain of immorality from our civic life. The mural is exhibited 24/7 and is accompanied by a catalogue.
Zaritsky Artists’ House
9 Elkharizi street, Tel Aviv November 2019
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
October 6, 2019 - January 26, 2020
Rotem Reshef’s most recent painting-installation “Arcadia”, is presented in her solo exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, October 6, 2019 – January 26, 2020. Alluding to Nicholas Poussin’s painting “Et In Arcadia Ego”, the installation deals with the tension between the picturesque environment of the museum’s natural surroundings, and with the potential of disturbance and the suspended aggression that lies underneath the surface, both in American and in Israeli societies.
In "Arcadia", Reshef has collected organic materials, some from the KMA grounds, to paint monumental rolls of unstretched canvas that are suspended from the walls. The marks and vibrant palette which saturate the entire surface reference the natural world, and the gesture of pouring paint reveals her unconventional artistic process that filters and redefines abstraction and expression.
Katonah Museum of Art
134 Jay Street, Katonah NY 10536
914-232-9555
http://www.katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions/archive/
Tuesday through Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sunday: 12pm - 5pm
Closed Monday
For more information about "Arcadia" and the online version of the catalogue click HERE
Two interviews with me were published in leading Israeli art magazines -
“Learning to Paint All Over Again”, written by Yonatan H. Mishal, Erev Rav -READ HERE (In Hebrew)
“Rotem Reshef wrapps the World with Painting”, written by Hagit Peleg-Rotem, Portfolio - READ HERE (In Hebrew)