Uri Eliaz

1931 - 2020, Tel Aviv, Israel

Rooster

Original Hand-signed Ink Drawing -

Dated 1966

Artist Name: Uri Eliaz

Title: Rooster

Signature Description: Hand-signed in Hebrew and dated "66" lower left

Technique: Ink on paper

Image Size: 32 x 23 cm / 12.6" x 9.06" inch

Frame: Unframed

Condition: In overall good condition with no tears, rips, holes, repairs, paint peelings or losses, some soiling on the corners (traces of glue) due to previous framing (invisible once re-framed), few light wrinkles consistent with the age and use.

Artist's Biography:

Uri Eliaz, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1931-2020

Uri Eliaz was born in Israel in 1931. His father was the poet Rafael Eliaz.
In high school he studied painting with Aharon Avni.
In 1947 he began studies at the “New Bezalel,” but he was forced to leave his studies when the War of Independence broke out.
He was drafted into the “Haganah” and was sent to Kibbutz Ayalon and Beit Alfa and was one of the founders of Kibbutz Nachshon, where he was a member until 1960.
He moved to Haifa, where he worked in designing sets and painting. He illustrated children's books and worked on theatre decor.
From 1968 occupied himself only with painting and sculpture.
He lived and worked in Old Jaffa.

Eliaz’s early work was in painting. His paintings were figurative and symbolic in nature and expressive in style.
In 1980 he began to cast sculptural assemblages of human images.

Education

1947 New Bezalel, Jerusalem
1953 Art course with Jacob Wexler and Naftali Bezem at Givat Haviva
1955 Ein Hod with Moshe Mokady, Yohanan Simon and Marcel Janco
1956 Pottery with Hedwig Grossman Lehmann 
1956-57 Studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and is self-taught.

Solo Exhibitions

1994 Uri Eliaz - Sculpture ''Idols - Scarecrows '', Horace Richter Art Gallery, Jaffa
1991 Scarecrows, The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum
1990 Scarecrows Idols Idols Scarecrows, Municipal Gallery Kfar Saba
1989 Scarecrow Idols, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park
1988 Painting and sculpture, Arad Museum
1981 Art Center, Atlantic City, USA
1978 Solo Exhibition, Liraz Art Gallery, Beer-Sheva
1976 Solo Exhibition, Hatzrif Art Gallery, Be'er Sheva
1975 Solo Exhibition, Galerie Bon Art, Haarlem, Holland
         Jackie Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1974 Oil Paintings, Old Jaffa Gallery, Tel Aviv
1972 Exhibition of Paintings 1962-1972, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1971 Solo Exhibition, 119 Gallery, Tel Aviv
1970 Solo Exhibition, Old Jaffa Gallery, Tel Aviv
1965 Solo Exhibition, Chagall Artists' House, Haifa
         Paintings, Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1963 Solo Exhibition, Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2020 Welcome to Jaffa, Artport, Tel Aviv
1989 Israeli Artists Draw the Bible, Beit Hatanach Museum, Tel Aviv
1977 One Hundred Years - One Hundred Plus Artists, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1975 Summer Exhibition, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva
1965, 1967 General Exhibition, Art in Israel 1967, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
         Group Exhibition, Haifa Museum of Modern Art
1966 Group Exhibition June 1966, Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1965 Young Artists Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion.

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