Ilana Raviv

Ilana Raviv-Oppenheim (born 1945) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work spans a variety of media including painting, drawing, etching, tapestry, and ceramic sculpture.

Ilana Raviv

Biography

She was born in Tel Aviv in 1945 to Itzhak and Fanya Oppenheim. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was her great-great-granduncle. He was considered “the first Jewish painter” in Europe, very well known and popular in his day. A large exhibition of his works was mounted at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Ilana grew up in Israel, and her art was influenced partly by such Israeli sights as the Negev, the Sinai, the Galilee, and greater Tel Aviv. Ilana always knew, and made known, that art was her calling.

From 1980 to 1990, she lived with her family in the art capital of the world, New York, in order to study, renew herself, and broaden her artistic vision. During her stay, from 1980 to 1984 she studied at the Art Students League of New York. Among her teachers were Roberto Delamonica, Bruce Dorfman, and the American master Knox Martin, who was active in New York and was her guide, mentor, and inspiration.

Ilana Raviv has exhibited in various museums and galleries of Israel, the US, Europe, and the Far East. Recently Ilana has exhibited her works alongside the best known of artists, including Knox Martin, Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Rosenquist, Chuck Close, Marisol, and more.

Today she divides her time between Israel and New York.

Work

Influences

Raviv draws her inspiration from works of the ancient past – primitive wall paintings – and ushers them through the ways and spirit of masterworks by Titian, Veronese, Frans Hals, Velásquez, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, de Kooning, Knox Martin, and others.

Ilana Raviv uses extreme metaphors. She has won the appreciation of art critics around the world. Much of her work focuses on femininity, on the strata of life from childhood to adolescence and from adulthood to partnering, and on relations between the sexes.

The great mother figure from Greek mythology is among the chief topics in her work, as are other characters from the Bible, from history, and from literature. Her works are built from a variety of flat designs, contrasts, and shapes, which create different versions and dimensions of reality.

Raviv describes her works as "a metaphor which creates and shapes an artificial life on canvas".

In 2008 she received the title of Tel Aviv–Jaffa "Woman of the Year", representing the arts.

Her work is represented in private collections and in various museums and galleries around the world. A solo exhibition consisting of 50 pictures by Ilana was presented at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg between October 2007 and January 2008, and another solo exhibition of 100 pictures was presented at the Museum of Modern Art Moscow. In both museums, she was the first native Israeli to exhibit. In both museums, the exhibits achieved great success. The State Russian Museum even asked to extend the term of the exhibit in response to popular demand. Both museums called her works comparable in quality to those of the Great Russian artists and the 20th century masters.

The world of Ilana Raviv, an Israeli artist from the American school of painting, is presented to the Russian viewer for the first time. As we identify and describe her world in Russian, we may well compare it with the dramatic and expressive works of the so-called avant-garde Amazons, the apocalyptic figures of Natalia Goncharova, the card cycle of Olga Rozanova ...
— Lubov Shakirova, curator at the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

Here in these halls, we see pictures by Ilana Raviv that recall the work of the greatest 20th-century artists. Not only Matisse and Picasso but also Albert Marquet or Raoul Dufy, the wonderdul French Fauvist painters. Similar simplicity, terseness, and wealth of energy in every spot also characterize Ilana Raviv’s excellent work. From that perspective, in my opinion, Ilana is a true successor to the outstanding artists of the 20th century.
— Dr. Andrei Tolstoy, head of the research department at the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts

Besides the Russian museum exhibits, there is a Holocaust-themed painting that has figured for many years in the permanent collection of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. In this painting Ilana exposes the monstrous aspect of the topic more than she trains a direct view on its consequences. The painting shows the Ten Commandments consumed by flame, with an emphasis on "Thou shalt not murder." The struggle to survive is expressed only in the mixture of colors.

Her painting A Tabernacle of Peace – Homage to Zachariah" (acrylic on canvas, 2.12 meters by 10) opened Israel's 40th anniversary celebrations in New York at the world's largest sukkah. Later it was displayed for eight years in the main entrance hall of the Jerusalem International Convention Center.

Raviv is married and the mother of three. In the course of her life she has displayed her creations at many exhibits, including a pro bono exhibit to benefit Seeds Of Peace, which aims to inspire and connect Arab and Jewish youth.

My work contains no political manifesto or statement of intent. I do not fit into any cubbyhole by name, place, fad, taste, or changeable fashion. The creation itself, and the process that it implies, are a thing that suggests itself anew from moment to moment, out of itself alone, with respect to the entire format, be it right to left, be it top to bottom, appearing and changing from one instant to the next and surprising myself all over again ...

You could compare my works to the motion a kaleidoscope creates, presenting itself afresh with each twist ...

Art studies

1980–1984 – At the Art Students League of New York

Prizes

2008 – "Woman of the Year", representing the arts, Tel Aviv–Jaffa
2004 – NAPA Kay Greenwood-Casey Award, UK
2001 – "Artist of the Week" at Global Art Information, Australia

One-person shows

2012-2013 Okashi Meseum of Art- "Alice in Wonderland" Acre (Old Akko) Israel – Catalog
2012 – Bet Ariela – "Woman Her Many Faces" Tel Aviv -Israel
2009- Ilana Raviv and Paul du Toit at gallery Art Vine – Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2008-2009 One person Show at The Museum of Modern Art – Moscow (Catalog)
2007 – 2008 – Ilana Raviv at The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (Catalog)
2006 – "Tabernacle of Peace – Homage to Zechariah" has been installed for permanent display at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, Israel. The painting, which measures 7 ft high by 26 ft wide, is displayed at the main entrance to the convention center.
2006 – Givaataim theater "Creators – subjective selection", Israel
2005 Eshkol for the Sciences and Arts, Ramat Gan, "Smiles and Surprises" – Israel
2004 BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Painters and Sculptors Association – Israel
December 2001 – February 2002 Wilfried Israel Art Museum – Kibbutz Hazorea – Israel (Catalog)
2001 The Castra Gallery -Haifa – Israel
2000 The National Arts Club, New York City, New York (Catalog)
1993 The Studio Neve Tzedeck, Tel Aviv, Israel
1984 Bronx Museum of Art, New York (catalog)
1983 River Gallery Irvington, New York
1981 Cicchinnelli Gallery, New York
1971 Israelis Gallery, Tel Aviv

Group exhibitions, commissions, and permanent collections

2011- NAPA International Exhibition – Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead, Wirral, England, National Acrylic Painters’ Association
2010 – "Women, Consciousness , Intensity" – "Bet Gabriel on the Kinneret", Cultural & Social Center
2009-2010 Sylvia White Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Ventura, California
2008 Wilfred Israel Museum- "Salt of the earth" – Israeli profile ( Catalog)
2006 Box Heart's 6th Anniversary Exhibition
2005 Box Heart Gallery Celebrate the Season, Group Holiday Exhibition and Sale
2005 Givatayim Theatre – "Creators – Personal Choice"
2005 Museum Leeuwenbergh in Utrecht, The Netherlands- "Art for Nature"
2005 BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 5th Anniversary Exhibition
2005 St. Davids Hall, Cardiff, Wales
2004 Mariner Gallery St Ives Cornwall, UK Awarded the 2004 Napa Kay Greenwood Casey Award
2004 BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh,PA The 8th Annual Sacred Art Exhibition
2004 NAPA International Exhibition, Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Merseyside, UK
2004 – BoxHeart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA "The Third Annual Art Inter/national"
2003 – "New Rivasinistra" Centro d’Arte e Cultura Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2003, New Assioma – Centro d’Arte e Cultura, Prato, Italy (Catalog)
2002 NAPA International Exhibition, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
2002, Clock Tower Gallery, Sheffield, UK.
2002 MAC21 Art Fair – Marbella (Catalog)
2002, Europ’Art, Paris, 11/01 Awarded "Artist of the Week" at Global Art Information
2001 "10 Women – 10 Countries" exhibition at Noosa Gallery representing Israel http://www.noosagallery.com/10women10countries.htm
2000 Bar David museum/outdoor exposition-Kibbutz Baram
2000 Xtreme Xteriors Xhibition at Marcus Garvey Park, New York City, Curator: Gallery X, New York City.
2000 "Milestones for Peace", Organized by The International Artists’ Museum, Castra Art Center, Haifa, Israel
2000 Touchstone Gallery, Washington D.C.
2000 Sylvia White Gallery, Los Angeles
2000 World Art One Collection "2000 Reasons to Love the Earth", Den Haag, The Netherlands
2000 Sylvia White Gallery, New York
2000 "Milestones for Peace", Organized by The International Artists’ Museum, "Jaffa Art 2000″, Jaffa, Israel
2000 Peace Gallery, Art Center of Givat Haviva, Israel
1999 The Suan Pakkad Palace Museum, Bangkok, Thailand
1997 The National Arts Club, New York
1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.; painting is in the permanent collection
1993 Stavit Gallery, Paris, France
1990 Garett Stephens Gallery, East Hampton, New York
1990 Riverdale YM YWHA Gallery, New York
1990 Strauss Gallery, New York
1989 Lamontage Gallery, New York
1987 Succoth Mural Painting, New York
1984 Dubelle Fine Art, New York
1983 C.D.S. Gallery, New York
1983 Byer Museum of Art, Illinois
1983 Dubelle Fine Art, New York
1983 Peninsula Public Library, Lawrence, New York
1982 River Gallery Irvington, New York
1982 Arras Gallery, New York
1982 24th Annual Art Show, Westfield Chapter of Hadassah, New Jersey
1982 Art Expo, New York
1982 Jewish Community Center, Tenafly, New Jersey
1982 S. Morantz Gallery, Cliffside Park, New Jersey
1982 Guild Hall Museum of Art, East Hampton, New York
1982 Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hampstead, New York
1982 Bronx Museum of Art, New York
1982 "Art Show”, 599 Broadway, New York
1981 Cicchinnelli Galleries, New York
1981 Ingber Gallery, New York
1981 S. Morantz Gallery, New York
1974 Bergman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1972 Z.O.A. House, Tel Aviv, Israel

Member

Selected publications

ArtSpeak (July 1981). Christopher Millis, ArtSpeak, (November 1981). The Riverdale Press (November 1981). Beautiful Talent, Israel Shelanu (December 1981). Mary Abell, The Bohemian Tradition and Alternative Spaces, ArtSpeak (October 1982). The New Explosion: Paper Art, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York (November 1982), CDS Gallery New York (1983). Claude LeSuer, New Talent's Tribute to Tradition, ArtSpeak (November 1983). The Village Voice (1983). Bronx Museum of the Arts Satellite Gallery Program, exh. cat., (1985). Israel Shelanu (November 1986). “Succoth Mural Celebrates Israel’s Independence”, The New York Times (October 1987). Real Estate Weekly (September 1987). Carol Polsky, “Is Heavy-duty Harvest Hut World’s Largest Sukkah?”, New York Newsday (October 1987). “World’s Largest Sukkah Unveiled”, The Jewish Press (October 1987). Jewish Community News (October 1987). The New York Jewish Week (October 1987). The Queens Jewish Week (October 1987). Hadoar (October 1987). The Riverdale Press (December 1987). Les Krantz, The New York Art Review, An Illustrated Survey of the City's Museums, Galleries and Leading Artists (1988). Moznaim Literary Publication (November 1995). Art 2000, Israeli Artists, Painters and Sculptors (1997). Moznaim Literary Publication (August 1997). Marquis Who's Who in the World (1998). Her Presence in Colors IV, exh. cat. International Women Artists, Marsi Gallery, Suan Pakkad Palace Museum, Thailand (2000). Gallery & Studio: The World of the Working Artist, N.Y. “Women’s Lives & Myths” (November/December 2000) “Synthetic Realism”: The Wilfrid Israel Museum of Oriental Art and Studies, exh. cat (December 2001), “Artists of Israel 2002″ Editor: Yehuda May, Mechira Pumbit, 158pp , MAC21- International Contemporary Art Fair – Manifestaciones de Arte Contemporaneo, Exhibit Catalogue (July 2002) “1001 Reasons to Love the Earth”, The World Art Collection, 528 pp. ed.: Frans van der Beek “Arte al Femminile” (Feminine Art) exh. cat. Published by “New Assioma” Centro d’Arte e Cultura Contemporanea” 48 pp., Agenda Prato (14 Marzo 2003), “Quattordici modi di declinare l'”Arte al femminile” (Il Terreno 12 Marzo, 2003) Hedwig Brenner: Judische Frauen in der bildenden Kunst II 394pp Hartung-Gorre Verlag Konstanz 2004,The 110 Anniversary of the Russian Museum, The State Russian Museum annual report ( Palace edition publication) 2008,Cover for the book “The Sins of the Fathers” by Professor John Witte, Jr( Cambridge university press ) 2009,The Moscow Museum of Modern Art's magazine (February 2009)

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