NYAB Event - Etty Yaniv “Sirens”

Etty Yaniv “Sirens”

Long Island University/ Brooklyn Campus Art Galleries

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Brooklyn based artist Etty Yaniv’s site specific installation “Sirens” is featured in a solo show at the Long Island University Humanities Gallery. Drawing upon patterns from nature such as ocean currents and turbid water, Yaniv’s site responsive installation transforms the LIU unique oval space into a diorama of abstracted and intricate seascape made of discarded materials. Taken from her studio practice and from every-day life, the materials include found objects like torn plastic bags, scraps of her drawings and fragments of photos depicting cities she has lived. Through a process of building and excavating, these disjointed scavenged materials coalesce into colossal yet delicate immersive installation which places the viewer somewhere between the real and the imagined, the organic and the artificial.

Etty Yaniv has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally, including Haifa museum of art, Israel, Torrance museum of art, LA, Newark museum of art, NJ, Monmouth museum of art, NJ, Musée Héritage Museum, Art Gallery of St. Albert, Canada, Life on Mars, Brooklyn, Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, Helen Day Center, VT, Purdue University gallery, IN, University of Connecticut, Sheen Center, NYC, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Germany. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times and reviewed in publications such as Hyperallergic, Stamford Advocate, Art New England and Public Radio.