Avri Ohana Exhibition
Westbeth Gallery
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The Westbeth Gallery presents the work of veteran New York artist Avri Ohana in a solo show of current paintings.
Ohana’s new body of work represents a playful, humorous and somewhat phantasmagorical distortion of the human figure, saturated in bold colors. These figures, which often display cross-gender tension and performative gaze, spring from the canvas in a spontaneous, uninterrupted manner.
The paintings represent a radical departure from Ohana’s former work, the colorful abstraction of microscopic forms—his “Biomorphic” series—as well as from his landscapes, which will also be on display.
Born in Casablanca, Ohana has lived and worked in Israel, Europe and the United States. He was an early member of Ein Hod, Israel’s artist village, and it was there that he developed his voice as a unique artist. Ohana is primarily a colorist. His art reveals a restless temperament in constant search of the perfect abstraction. Ohana’s recent paintings overlap and juxtapose the figurative and the abstract.
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Schedule
from February 18, 2012 to March 04, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-02-18 from 17:00 to 19:00