Larry Abramson
Larry Abramson (born 1954 in South Africa) is an Israeli artist.
Life and work
Larry Abramson was born in South Africa in 1954. 1961 emigrated with his family to Israel and lived in Jerusalem. In 1970 he was one of the signatories of a letter of conscience objectors, who protested against the occupation of Gaza. 1973 Abramson studied art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Upon his return to Israel he took a job as a printer and exhibition curator at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, where he remained from 1975 to 1986.
His first solo exhibition was in 1975. His work in the 1980s dealt with various symbols of modernist European art, especially the " Black Square " by Malevich Kasimiar. He used it to create dynamic situations in which he used simplification and a figurative drawing style.
From 1993 to 1994 Abramson created the series " Tsuba ", which he exhibited in the Kibbutz Gallery. The series consisted of 38 nature - paintings (oil on canvas), 38 printing from nature drawings, and still lifes, which were based on plants examples.
These series are related to archaeological ruins near the kibbutz Tzova, a place that had been drawn a decade earlier by the artist Joseph Zaritsky (under the name " Tsuba "). While Zaritsky the Arab ruins ignored at the place and it einebnete the room, Abramson painted the look realistic. By he included the ruins of the Arab village, he criticized essentially the Israeli position, which was striving to obliterate the Arab identity of the conquered territory.
In 1984, Abramson Lecturer of the Department of Art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He was appointed head of the department in 1992, and head of Bezalel program for young artists ( the Master's program ).
For the academic year 2002/2003 he was a guest lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute. At the same time he began to build the Visual Arts Department at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan.
In May 2002, Abramson published in the journal Studio an article entitled We're all Felix Nussbaum. In it, he said, the problematic nature of what happens when you are creating historical paintings in the post- Holocaust era. 2004, there was an exhibition of his works under the title of " Piles ", including some charcoal drawings of rubble mountains. They had a reference to ruins in the art and the portrait of the German - Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum. This series was shown, among others, the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück.
In 2007, Abramson paintings in the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv.