Orly Shiv
I was born in Israel and came to the United States 20 years ago. I have always been interested in the arts and aesthetics. I studied and worked in art, free form weaving, landscape design, painting and sculpting. In the Portrait Project Group I found a unique opportunity to work with artists who are exploring together the field of portraiture, a field rich with historic connotation, artistic form and psychological elements. The English novelist, essayist and critic Samuel Butler (1835-1902) once said “every man’s work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself”. As a member of the Group, I benefited from being both the observer and creator and the one who serve as a reflection (subject). I found the experience very interesting and the psychological aspect of the work and experiment is a cardinal part in my work.
My work has been exhibited in galleries in Israel, Florida, New York and Romania and can be found in private collections.
Barry
13 x 6.5 x 7 inches
clay cast in plaster
I was born in Israel and came to the United States 20 years ago. I have always been interested in the arts and aesthetics. I studied and worked in art, free form weaving, landscape design, painting and sculpting. In the Portrait Project Group I found a unique opportunity to work with artists who are exploring together the field of portraiture, a field rich with historic connotation, artistic form and psychological elements. The English novelist, essayist and critic Samuel Butler (1835-1902) once said “every man’s work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself”. As a member of the Group, I benefited from being both the observer and creator and the one who serve as a reflection (subject). I found the experience very interesting and the psychological aspect of the work and experiment is a cardinal part in my work.
My work has been exhibited in galleries in Israel, Florida, New York and Romania and can be found in private collections.
Barry
13 x 6.5 x 7 inches
clay cast in plaster