Rotem Reshef on her New Art Series: 'Spectrum'

Rebecca Rosenberg, The Jewish Journal, July 2018

After receiving a prestigious scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Rotem Reshef honed her process even more by participating in a summer residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York.  As she began to explore the transition of the four seasons, she created “Time Traveler” for the University of La Verne in Southern California. In 2018 in Tel Aviv, she debuted “Intervals” which expanded her focus even further.  As we discussed the unique space at Soho House and the warm climate in LA, she created 22 works which feature gradients of cold, warm, and hot.  Reshef’s newest series, “Spectrum“, was installed at Soho House West Hollywood on July 1 and will be on display through July 30, 2018 (by appointment only).

If you’re in Los Angeles this month, reach out to Kipton Cronkite, curator of the exhibition, and he’ll take you on a private tour or simply preview the works here.

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"Intervals" in 3 Israeli Newspapers This Week | "Haaretz", "Calcalist", "Erev-Rav"

3 articles about "Intervals" were published in the last couple of weeks in the Israeli press,

July 2018

Intervals, Artists House, Tel Aviv

Haaretz

A New Front Vs. "Want of Matter", Avraham Balaban

"Tuesday. The Artists House southern wall makes me stop during my morning hike. I stand in front of it and can imagine what brought to the tear between Raffi Lavie, an influential artist and teacher at Hamidrasha, one of Israel’s leading art academies, and his then student and now artist, Rotem Reshef, who is responsible for this colorful outdoor mural, Intervals.

The wall is practically exploding of color and suggested shapes that are interwoven into each other - imaginary honeycombs, streams of light, wavy whirlpools, a world filled with visual carousel.

Obviously, a wide conceptual gap stretches between this overflowing richness, and Lavie’s version of Arte Povera, that was the dominant genre in Israeli art for several decades..."

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Calcalist

Reshef's mural "Intervals" Puzzles the Spectators in its Unique Technique, Reut Barnea

Many of those passing by the Tel Aviv Artists House facade on Elcharizi street, are trying to figure out what exactly is it that they are looking at - Are these windows? Where are they facing? What is inside of them?

This almost optical illusion has been created thanks to "Intervals", a new outdoor mural of twenty colorful faux windows with shades representing the four seasons, created by artist Rotem Reshef and installed on the southern wall of the building..."

Erev-Rav

Weekly Recommendations, Gili Sitton

On days of wandering between graduate shows all over the country, I paid a visit to the Artists House in Tel Aviv. The well-known establishment provides a pleasant space for diverse exhibitions, that at times suffers from bizarre thematic choices…

On the outer wall of the building, on its facade, Rotem Reshef’s huge piece, Intervals is exhibited. Reshef had placed about twenty abstract paintings in a rectangular format, in an arrangement that relates to the seasonal shifts throughout the year. The warm seasons are represented by bright tonalities of yellow-red-orange, and the cooler seasons are in shades of blue and purple.

Reshef transformed the pretty banal and outdated architecture into an uplifting, stained-glass like facade, that changed the entire look of the building.

The lightness of the creation, the floating windows and the colorful movement give the Artists house a much more contemporary appeal, and brands it as a center of contemporary, fresh and relevant artistic activity.

Curator's Journal | Kipton Cronkite

Get to Know: NY & Tel Aviv Based Painter, Rotem Reshef

Kipton Cronkite, the curator of "Spectrum" at Soho House West Hollywood, dedicated his last newsletter to me and my work. Please have a look!

"Spectrum", Soho House West Hollywood

In 2010 I met process-driven abstract action painter Rotem Reshef in New York and in 2011, was hired to build a collection of abstract artworks for a client in Utah.  The client expressed their desire for Abstract Expressionism (but a lower price tag than Pollock and Frankenthaler), so I suggested they consider Reshef's work.  The result: the client commissioned a multi-colored abstract piece which was hung beside a large picture window overlooking snow capped mountains in Park City, Utah.  The client became consumed by the purity and connection to nature while I began to fall more deeply in love with Reshef's process. 

After receiving a prestigious scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Reshef honed her process even more by participating in a summer residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York.  As she began to explore the transition of the four seasons, she created "Time Traveler" for the University of La Verne in Southern California. In 2018 in Tel Aviv, she debuted "Intervals" which expanded her focus even further.  As we discussed the unique space at Soho House and the warm climate in LA, she created 22 works which feature gradients of cold, warm, and hot.  Reshef's newest series, "Spectrum", was installed at Soho House West Hollywood on July 1 and will be on display through July 30, 2018 (by appointment only).

I interviewed Reshef to introduce her to a wider collector base and dive into some personal aspects of her career. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read the interview below!  If you're in Los Angeles this month, message me and I'll take you on a private tour or simply preview the works here. 

Thank you Rotem for sharing your gift of art with us and for the opportunity to work together again!  -Kipton

For the interview