"Ilana Raviv: Synthetic Realism - Paintings"
2001-12-08 until 2002-02-09
Wilfrid Isreal Museum of Oriental Art and Studies
Kibbutz Hazorea, , IL Israel

In this exhibition the artist deals with Synthetic Realism - a handy label that expresses the nature of an art that is not abstract or concrete nor surreal but is involved in the use of sometimes extreme metaphor used in the poetic sense as being specific as a new creation in itself with reference to the deep experience of the real. Thus in artistic terms to make a synthesis an exchange of the real to metaphor to synthesis of a whole. - Knox Martin

Ilana Raviv creates paintings in oil and acrylic, drawings, etchings, cast paper, tapestries, murals, and clay sculptures.She is currently lives and paints at her Neve Tzedeck studio in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Her work has been exhibited in New York and Isreal as well as across Europe. She attended Art Student League in New York from 1980-1984.

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