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Landscapes Scrolls Returning to America in 1998, we began a master series of paintings depicting several regions of the continent in the form of scrolls. They are mixed media, acrylics and photography on Japanese rice paper. Video of "Pacific Scrolls Video of "Autumn Scrolls |
Still
Life East & West, Near & Far Still life compositions. The collections of objects that people have in their homes from Jerusalem to Seattle. Video |
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Native
Americana They Are the Hosts, We Are the Guests We have been honored to participate in some Native American gatherings. We feel that they have a great deal to contribute and to preserve. |
Architectural Elements Fifteen years ago, when we lived in Israel, we began this series of paintings of remnants of architecture from the Classical and Arabic periods. We continue to add to this body of work every time we return. Video
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Yonnah began her art career with bronze sculptures of birds. She is definitely in the tradition of naturalist artists. |
Paintings
on Cinema Exhibited at the Jerusalem Theater for the Jerusalem Film Festival in July, 1996. First was the performance, which was filmed, then televised, then photographed from the tv screen, then blown up onto rice paper and then painted. So, like many of Romantic notions themselves, this is six steps from reality. video |
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Americana
"Cama Beach Cabins" 11 x 15 in. Much of our work is inspired by the documentary tradition and relates to history. This bungalow colony, a family fishing resort on Camano Island in the Puget Sound dates from the 1930's. Video
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Living in Israel for many years, we have often found inspiration in the sites and artifacts of religious faith. Art began as an expression of spirituality, even in the cave paintings of Lascaux. We return often to Israel for many reasons, but among them is to gather material for our art.
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Words
& Pictures We began our collaboration on this series with an old dot matrix printer, given by a friend, printing on hand made paper, made by another friend. The underlying photograph was taken with a cheap pocket camera held together with duct tape.
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Abstracts Abstraction is everywhere; it's just a matter of seeing. Sometimes it's taking something out of context, and sometimes it's tweaking it a little.
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Europe
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Paintings by Yonnah Ben Levy |
