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Hava (Chava) Gal-On born 1945, Samarkand, Uzbekistan (then USSR) On the promenade of Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, 1980s
Artist Name: Hava (Chava) Gal-On Technique: Oil on wood Size: 46 x 76 cm / 18.11" x 29.92" inch Frame: The painting is unframed
Hava Gal-On, painter, born 1945, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
(then USSR). Education “I define myself as a multidisciplinary artist. I started my journey in
the art world as an auto-didact, I studied and specialized on the go, alongside
several senior Israeli artists, and today I dedicate all my time to art. My studio in Tel Aviv provides the visitor with a colorful and rich
experience; the content ranges from personal and biographical issues to
actuality, society, and politics, including the internal politics of the art
world. My personal touch is expressed in every object in the studio: large
paintings on canvas, paintings on objects from everyday life, surprising
connections between objects collected or found on the street and picturesque
contents, miniatures rich in beads and colored stones, painting tools and empty
paint tubes turned into sculptural objects, boxes and containers featuring
flowers, birds, texts, and more ... I like to redeem discarded objects that are no longer needed and give
them new life and new meanings. Thus, one can find among my works ironing
boards, trampolines, cutting boards, suitcases, trays, mirrors, empty shoe
boxes (and shoes that have really been used by me over the years), all of
these, like clay in my hands, undergo a process of sublimation. Contributing to
this process is my extensive use of colorful traditional Jewish texts, which
function both as content and as artistic images. I do not belong to a particular school, nor am I committed to one art genre. I move between several disciplines and genres, consciously ignoring the academic and institutional conventions of right and wrong; too independent to be identified with the artistic establishment on the one hand, too curious and fast learner to be identified as a complete outsider. Within my wide and prolific work there is occasionally
a hold over a more significant body of works, whether in terms of content or in
terms of multiplicity and seriality. "Homage", for example, is the
title of a broad body of work that is also a personal journey among works by
Israeli and international artists. While not being satisfied with artistic
quotes, I have freely copied masterpieces and famous works, without paying
attention to the accuracy and while embedding my unique style in the
"copied" works. Such an additional body of works is a series of
ready-made suitcases, painted and covered with texts, some autobiographical and
some from traditional Hebrew sources. I worked on the external or internal sides,
and sometimes on both sides. The initial suitcase is dedicated to my father,
carrying pictures, objects and images that were part of his world. Another
suitcase unfolds the relationship with my late husband since the beginning of
our life together up to his death. Another one yet quotes Rabbi Nachman of
Breslov's ‘Tikkun Haklali’ (The General Remedy) in its entirety, to the last
suitcase in the series that has been dealt with in the lockdowns, in the shadow
of the corona virus that attacked the world. Trampolines are an old love of mine, and I still tend
to jump on one every now and then. Over the years, many of them have fallen out
of use, and naturally have become a painted and treated body of works. Some
deal with personal issues and some with the Genesis story of creation through
texts and images. Like the rest of my works, the trampolines are characterized
by laborious, continuous work, word for word, color and more color,
combinations, and gluing. If the abundance and richness that characterize my work
in general can be summed up, or distilled as an experience, then it is a
copious dose of optimism and joy of life; I just rock it! “ Exhibitions: The Energy Trail, 2021 / Solo show The New
Artists' House, Rishon Lezion Curator: Ilan Wizgan Four Seasons, 2021 / Group show Art Workshop
Gallery, Yavne Curator: Dalia Danon 2021 Miror, Miror…1996-2921, Tova Osman Art
Gallery, Tel Aviv (Group Show) Tribute to International Woman's Day, 2020 / Group
show Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Tova Osman Women Sisterhood, 2020 / Group show Discount
Bank HQ, Tel Aviv Curators: Shulamit Nuss & Hagit Peleg Rotem Outside the Box, 2019 / Solo show Tova Osman
Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Vera Pilpoul Drawings in a Box, 2019 / Solo show Artists' House,
Tel Aviv Curator: Arie Berkowitz Painting Life (Tribute to Magen David Adom),
2019 / Group show Discount Bank HQ, Tel Aviv Curators: Shulamit Nuss & Vera
Pilpoul Nekudat Zchut (Tribute to Spirit of Israel),
2019 / Group show Lemon Frame Gallery, Tel Aviv Curators: Shulamit Nuss &
Vera Pilpoul Internal Areas, 2019 / Group show Hagada
Hasmalit Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Mira Cedar Hidden and Revealed, 2019 /Solo show Zadik
Gallery, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Curator: Kobi Carmi Afri-can, 2019 / Group show ZeZeZe Architecture
Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Gilat Elkeslasi Three, Four, Get To Work! 2018 / Group show Artisit's
house, Rishon Lezion Curator: Hanita Elizur Journal Log, 2017 / Group show Tiroche Gallery,
Hertzliya Curator: Kobi Carmi Now & Then, 2017 / Group show Space Galley,
Tel Aviv Curators: Shiri Meir & Iki Shoval Butterflies, 2017 /Group show Universal Art
Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Moran Jacobi Homage, 2016 / Solo show Montefiore Gallery,
Tel Aviv Curator: Galit Heizelkorn The Kick Inside, 2016 / Group show Florentin 45
Gallery, Tel Aviv Curators: Vera Pilpoul & Gilat Elkeslasi Sabra, 2016 / Group show / Amiad Center, Tel
Aviv Curator: Yaffa Meir Books, Gentelmen, Books, 2016 / Group show The
Green Gallery, Tel Aviv University Curator: Hanita Elizur Internal Combustion (Ramat Hasharon Artists),
2016 / Group show Yahalom Theater, Ramat
Gan Smiles, 2016 / Group show Amiad Center, Tel
Aviv Curator: Yaffa Meir Show Place, 2016 / Group show Hertzliya Urban
Gallery Curators: Orna Gattenyu & Yael Ben Ari Adventures of Social Identities, International
Artexpo, 2015 / Group Show Venice Art House, Italy Curator: Luca Curci Homage to Marc Shagal, 2015 / Group Show Haifa's
Artist House Curator: Daniela Talmor Memories, 2015 / Group show The Green Gallery,
Tel Aviv University Curator: Hanita Elizur 2013 MATKOT -THE ULTIMATE ISRAELI GAME, Casa
Sefarad-Israel, Madrid (Group Show) 2013 The Art of Books, The Apter Barrer
Gallery & Art Center, Ma'alot-Tarshiha / (Group Show) Passion for Shoes, 2012 / Group show Gerstein
Gallery, Tel Aviv Cliches, 2011 / Solo show Cinematheque Gallery,
Jerusalem Curator: Daniela Talmor 2010 Addicted to Hand Movement, Gerstein
Gallery, Tel Aviv ((Solo Exhibition) 2007 Gal-on Art Space, Tel Aviv (Solo
Exhibition) 1998 Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv (Solo
Exhibition)
1995 Chava Gal On - New Works, Arsuf Art
Gallery, Rishpon (Solo Exhibition) Payment
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