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Saturday, May 7, 2011
A piece about my work at the Tel Aviv Art and Design blog
Nivi Alroy, The Promising Artist Award 2010, Israel.
Posted: April 28th, 2011 ˑ Filled under: Art, Exhibition Tel Aviv, Israel Art and design ˑ No Comments
Award Committee 2011:
Igal Ahouvi | Art Collector – Chairman of the Award Committee
Jessica Morgan | The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London
Edna Moshenson | Independent Curator, Tel Aviv
Igael Tumarkin | Artist, Israel
Shay Rosen | Head of the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection
Sarit Shapira | Curator of the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection
Nivi is an Israeli artist, currently based in New York.
She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts.
“My work deals with the tension between intimacy of private domains, weather bodies, living environments or communities and the intrusive forces
threatening them. I explore the changing relationship between outer and inner spaces : the interior parts of structures or even the paper itself erupt, exposing an intimate moment”.
Food chain and Fresh Paint 2011.
Each year, the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection presents a Prize of 20,000 NIS to the Most Promising Artist at Fresh Paint Art Fair. The winner is selected from the independent artists participating in the fair for his or her overall artistic achievements so far, as well as for showing the most promise and potential for the future. The winner gets a solo show at the fair, the following year. The announcement of the winner is made at the opening of the art fair.
Fresh Paint 3′s Most Promising Artist award went to Nivi Alroy, who will present a solo exhibition “Food Chain” in Fresh Paint 4. Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman
Nivi Alroy – born in 1978, lives and works in Tel Aviv. B.A. graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and M.A. graduate of the School of Visual Arts, New York.
“My work process begins in the printmaking workshop, where I capture fragments of mundane life and their fragile moments.
Through the making of mono-prints I create abstract renderings of construction materials and sites, trying to break apart the hierarchies of residential environments. I then build sculptural objects made of materials from the construction sites of demolished houses.
Later, I imbed the mono-prints into the structural objects to create environments that are simultaneously exposed to and hidden from the viewer.”
“Nivi Alroy, an interdisciplinary artist, is once more a star. Last year, she was awarded the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection’s Most Promising Artist Award, a prize that included a solo exhibition at this year’s event. And here it is: Food Chain, another distinctive presentation.
Unlike most younger-generation artists, Alroy has already decided on the direction she wants to go. In the last few years in New York and Paris she has being showing installations whose themes are derived from microbiology. In this instance, her main thrust is not only the vulnerability of private lives and spaces in relation to outside forces or situations that come to destroy them, but also the way that life nevertheless goes on, subject to different laws.”
ANGELA LEVINE.
Apoptosis, Remeeded Wood, cement, mono print, chip-board, 2007.
HONORS AND PRIZES
A.I.R GALLERY The center for advocating women in the visual arts, Chelsea, New York
2008-2009
The recipient of the 2008-2009 residency award
GUEST ARTIST AND LECTURER : The U.N. conference center.
The African American women convention.
Artist talk and presentation of a recent body of work
in relation to the socio-political state in the Middle
East convention, 2007-2008
THE FRIDA E. ISICOFF AWARD 2007 : The winner of an award given every two years for
an outstanding achievement in the thesis project at
the School of Visual Arts.
THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS 2006,2007 : The alumni award
AICF GRANT 2005-2007 : The American-Israel cultural foundation award for young artists
Awarded the America-Israel cultural foundation Scholarship for an MFA degree
THE SHARET FOUNDATION GRANT 2003 : America-Israel Grant for young artists
Awarded the highly competitive America-Israel
Cultural Foundation Grant for young artists
BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN, JERUSALEM 2001-2003 : “Bezalel” high distinction award.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Photos from 'Food Web'
Here are some excerpts from the madness of the Ahuvi most promising artist award show, at the Fresh paint art fair. I want to thank Tami Katz Frieman,, th ecurator of the show for this wonderful adventure
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Review on my show
Here is a review on my award show at the Fresh Paint art fair in Tel Aviv.
It's on until this Saturday, Come by, see the show and say hello!
(http://www.midnighteast.com/mag/?p=11504)
Food chain and Fresh Paint
6 APRIL 2011 ONE COMMENT
WRITTEN BY: ANGELA LEVINE
A 32-dunam space – once housing Bezeq’s warehouses – is the charmless South Tel Aviv location for the fourth round of Fresh Paint, a four day Contemporary Art Fair where, alongside booths occupied by some 30 well known galleries with their stable of artists, a new generation of artists are strutting their stuff.
Nivi Alroy, an interdisciplinary artist, is once more a star. Last year, she was awarded the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection’s Most Promising Artist Award, a prize that included a solo exhibition at this year’s event. And here it is: Food Chain, another distinctive presentation.
Unlike most younger-generation artists, Alroy has already decided on the direction she wants to go. In the last few years in New York and Paris she has being showing installations whose themes are derived from microbiology. In this instance, her main thrust is not only the vulnerability of private lives and spaces in relation to outside forces or situations that come to destroy them, but also the way that life nevertheless goes on, subject to different laws.
Dripping City, animated piece, 2011
As Tami Katz-Frieman, curator of this exhibition, points out Alroy completed all the works on exhibit – two sculptural installations and an animation piece backed up by brush paintings – well before the massive Tsunami swept north-western Japan. And yet, if one views photographs of this disaster showing water engulfing whole communities, buildings collapsing and spewing out the contents of people’s homes, one realizes just how topical Alroy’s themes have become.
Her animated piece Dripping City, viewed through a slit in a wall and comprising a wall drawing and a video loop, features an unending chain of catastrophe: a ‘moving’ stairway of miniature furniture and domestic equipment tumbling from a roof top into a bucket only to rise again.
Detail from Wave Land, wood, porcelain and mixed media, 2010-2011
Medusa Gigantean, one of her two mixed media sculptures is named for a mushroom-shaped jelly fish with tentacles 40 feet long; an image that Alroy reproduces in porcelain in the form of an oozing white shape, with its feelers constructed from wires and cables. This voracious creature wraps itself around clumps of houses, shutters and other household objects, all meticulously constructed from hundreds of matches and popsicle sticks. Ignoring boundaries, it also encroaches on a private space as represented in the gallery by an old armchair. From this point on, subject to some unknown impetus, parts of this installation, now known as Wave Land, ‘grow’ upwards again, creating a new anti-gravitational system that abandons the normal order of things.
Alroy’s second installation Chacun Pour Soi (Everyone for Himself), is based on a popular 1864 painting by French artist Philippe Rousseau showing a bitch nursing her puppies, but, at the same time, nosing into a basket filled with dirty plates and the remains of a meal. The porcelain bulldog in Alroy’s three dimensional version is almost identical to the animal featured in her exhibit in last year’s Fresh Paint 3. But then, its head stuck into a box served as a metaphor for an outer force invading a private space. On this occasion, a bitch is suckling a puppy, her head buried in a sack that doesn’t contain food, but the pitiful remains of some town of city, perhaps all that remains after an ecological disaster. This is an intriguing exhibition, and one looks forward, once again, to Alroy’s further development of her fascinating themes.
ANGELA LEVINE
Fresh Paint # 4 2011 will take place at The Botanic Garden site, by Reality Fund, 51 Ben Zvi Street, next to the Abu Navot garden from April 5 – 9, 2011. Admission is 35 NIS and includes entry to the Fresh Paint Salon on a space-available basis. The Bloomfield Stadium parking lot is recommended, and Dan Bus Lines reaching the area are: 92, 84, 154, 119, 41, 2, 1. Opening hours are: April 5, 6, & 7 from 17:00 – 22:00, April 8 from 11:00 – 19:00, and April 9 from 10:00 – 22:00.
It's on until this Saturday, Come by, see the show and say hello!
(http://www.midnighteast.com/mag/?p=11504)
Food chain and Fresh Paint
6 APRIL 2011 ONE COMMENT
WRITTEN BY: ANGELA LEVINE
A 32-dunam space – once housing Bezeq’s warehouses – is the charmless South Tel Aviv location for the fourth round of Fresh Paint, a four day Contemporary Art Fair where, alongside booths occupied by some 30 well known galleries with their stable of artists, a new generation of artists are strutting their stuff.
Nivi Alroy, an interdisciplinary artist, is once more a star. Last year, she was awarded the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection’s Most Promising Artist Award, a prize that included a solo exhibition at this year’s event. And here it is: Food Chain, another distinctive presentation.
Unlike most younger-generation artists, Alroy has already decided on the direction she wants to go. In the last few years in New York and Paris she has being showing installations whose themes are derived from microbiology. In this instance, her main thrust is not only the vulnerability of private lives and spaces in relation to outside forces or situations that come to destroy them, but also the way that life nevertheless goes on, subject to different laws.
Dripping City, animated piece, 2011
As Tami Katz-Frieman, curator of this exhibition, points out Alroy completed all the works on exhibit – two sculptural installations and an animation piece backed up by brush paintings – well before the massive Tsunami swept north-western Japan. And yet, if one views photographs of this disaster showing water engulfing whole communities, buildings collapsing and spewing out the contents of people’s homes, one realizes just how topical Alroy’s themes have become.
Her animated piece Dripping City, viewed through a slit in a wall and comprising a wall drawing and a video loop, features an unending chain of catastrophe: a ‘moving’ stairway of miniature furniture and domestic equipment tumbling from a roof top into a bucket only to rise again.
Detail from Wave Land, wood, porcelain and mixed media, 2010-2011
Medusa Gigantean, one of her two mixed media sculptures is named for a mushroom-shaped jelly fish with tentacles 40 feet long; an image that Alroy reproduces in porcelain in the form of an oozing white shape, with its feelers constructed from wires and cables. This voracious creature wraps itself around clumps of houses, shutters and other household objects, all meticulously constructed from hundreds of matches and popsicle sticks. Ignoring boundaries, it also encroaches on a private space as represented in the gallery by an old armchair. From this point on, subject to some unknown impetus, parts of this installation, now known as Wave Land, ‘grow’ upwards again, creating a new anti-gravitational system that abandons the normal order of things.
Alroy’s second installation Chacun Pour Soi (Everyone for Himself), is based on a popular 1864 painting by French artist Philippe Rousseau showing a bitch nursing her puppies, but, at the same time, nosing into a basket filled with dirty plates and the remains of a meal. The porcelain bulldog in Alroy’s three dimensional version is almost identical to the animal featured in her exhibit in last year’s Fresh Paint 3. But then, its head stuck into a box served as a metaphor for an outer force invading a private space. On this occasion, a bitch is suckling a puppy, her head buried in a sack that doesn’t contain food, but the pitiful remains of some town of city, perhaps all that remains after an ecological disaster. This is an intriguing exhibition, and one looks forward, once again, to Alroy’s further development of her fascinating themes.
ANGELA LEVINE
Fresh Paint # 4 2011 will take place at The Botanic Garden site, by Reality Fund, 51 Ben Zvi Street, next to the Abu Navot garden from April 5 – 9, 2011. Admission is 35 NIS and includes entry to the Fresh Paint Salon on a space-available basis. The Bloomfield Stadium parking lot is recommended, and Dan Bus Lines reaching the area are: 92, 84, 154, 119, 41, 2, 1. Opening hours are: April 5, 6, & 7 from 17:00 – 22:00, April 8 from 11:00 – 19:00, and April 9 from 10:00 – 22:00.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Coming up! Food Chain, a solo show during the Fresh Paint art fair, Tel Aviv
I'm working vigorously towards my new installation, as part of the Ahuvi award I received last year. The studio is in a chaotic state. I really hope that something great will come out of it. Here are some photos of work in progress, taken in my studio...
come by to the art fair between March 5th to March 9th and see the finished work!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Rear Window, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv- a group show
I'm taking part in a really nice group show in Tel Aviv, curated by the lovely Ravit Harari.
Please find details above.
I'd love to see you at the opening on Thursday, 17.2 @ 20:00
Monday, February 7, 2011
The Triangle Workshop, New York 2010
I spent a couple of outstanding weeks in the company of artists from all over the world.
I met some fascinating people and had an opportunity to create a project in the framework of the workshop. I created smaller versions of the sculptures I'm working on for my upcoming show, an compiled a site specific installation.
It was so much fun! Here are some images:
