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JHSM VP Barbara Cohn interviews Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri and his daughter, Shear, managing director of Yigal Ozeri LLC. Yigal Ozeri is one of the leading artists of photorealism. His exhibition, Brush with Reality, was recently on view at the Flint Institute of Arts. Photo courtesy Elayne Gross Photography. January 21, 2022.

Bruno Art Group announces its 10th participation at the India Art Fair 2023, with internationally acclaimed Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri and other artist from Israel and the USA. runo Art Group is honoured to return to India Art Fair 2023 for our 10th anniversary operating at Booth C10. The gallery is thrilled to exhibit the paintings of one of the most prominent hyperrealist artists of our century, Yigal Ozeri. Ozeri has elevated the hyperreal genre to astounding new heights. Following his widely successful exhibitions and art fairs in neighboring Asian countries he will celebrate his first public engagement at the prestigious India Art Fair 2023. The distinctive presentation of his latest series is an unprecedented art installation that will mark the inauguration of Yigal Ozeri in India’s expanding art scene. Many celebrities have already had the privilege of being painted by Ozeri – Whoopi Goldberg, Ai Weiwei, Lizzie Jagger (Mick Jagger and Jeri Hall’s daughter), and Uri Geller to name a few.

Based in New York City, Yigal Ozeri is an Israeli artist best known for his meticulously crafted large-scale images of women in lush landscapes. These works have the appearance of photographs, but they are actually paintings. In varying degrees, painters have been using the camera or photograph to inform their work since the medium was invented in the mid-19th century. Typically the use of the camera was disguised or alluded to only in stylistic terms. In the late 1960s, however, artists in California and New York began to deliberately reference the photograph in their works by making the paintings look exactly like a photograph, re-creating sharp precise details, alongside fuzzy, out-of-focus elements. This movement in art was called Photorealism.

 In the 21st century, Yigal Ozeri is taking Photorealism in new directions. In his choice of subject matter, he employs intricate, realistic brushwork to create a narrative that blurs the lines between what is real and fantasy. He uses the medium of digital photography and processes the image on a computer until he arrives at the desired image, which he then carefully creates on canvas using a brush and paint. Brush with Reality offers highlights from the last decade of Ozeri’s works, from his first depiction of Priscilla in the jungles of Costa Rica in 2007 to his latest series that captures people on the streets of New York City. Ozeri has shown his work around the world, with several solo exhibitions in Europe, Mexico, and China.

Yigal Ozeri’s artworks may seem to be photographs but, on closer inspection, they open up a more detailed, intimate emotional perspective of his models.

Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri’s large-scale paintings draw the viewer in with their beauty, detail and sometimes dreamy nature settings. Brush with Reality — the name of the exhibit at the Flint Institute of Arts — is well-chosen.

Ozeri’s artworks may seem to be photographs but, on closer inspection, they open up a more detailed, intimate emotional perspective of his models. Many are beautiful women who revel in their environments — a rainforest, beach, city street. One of their common elements is their self-assertion — “This is me in my place,” they seem to say.

Ozeri is a leading photorealist artist whose works have been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, China, Mexico and Israel, where he was born in 1958. His paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Albertina in Vienna, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Flint Institute of Arts, where his current exhibition will be available through Jan. 2, 2022.

Ozeri aesthetically captures the most appealing retro elements, from the furniture to the lighting. The chrome accessories reflect pops of neon and bold lines of vibrant colors. Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri’s exhibition, ‘Americana,’ will be showing at Zemack Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv from November 13 until December 25. Ozeri has chosen to focus on the diner as an American icon, an institution whose image is engraved into the fabric of American life. Ozeri aesthetically captures the most appealing retro elements, from the furniture to the lighting. The chrome accessories reflect pops of neon and bold lines of vibrant colors.

No, you are not looking at photographs but paintings ! The author : Yigal Ozeri (b. 1958, Israel).He has developed a unique style of Photorealist painting since embracing realism in early 2000. His paintings depict women interacting and connecting with nature. He is deeply influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite works of the 1850s, and you will not see this exhibition. It was supposed to be presented on the booth of the Meisel Gallery  during Art Miami  – which was cancelled due to COVID.

In conversation with artist Yigal Ozeri on his design inclinations, ideologies and methodology of capturing life in New York and many more. The global importance of Ozeri’s work was emphasized in 2017 when he was included as one of thirty contemporary artists featured in the exhibition “Hyperrealism – 50 Years of Painting” presented at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. The Artist himself will be present at the IAF 2023 in Delhi premiering Ozeri’s latest series Americana.The global importance of Ozeri’s work was emphasized in 2017 when he was included as one of thirty contemporary artists featured in the exhibition “Hyperrealism – 50 Years of Painting” presented at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. The Artist himself will be present at the IAF 2023 in Delhi premiering Ozeri’s latest series Americana.

Israeli-born painter Yigal Ozeri wears two wrist watches. One shows the time in New York, the city in which he lives and where he built a career. The other shows the time in Tel Aviv, where his latest exhibition, Reality Check, is now on display at the Zemack Contemporary Art Gallery.Ozeri is just as happy to point to the various pendants he wears – each holding an interesting crystal from a land he has visited – as he is to express his pride in his son, Adam, an attacking midfielder for the Argentinian team Ferro Carril Oeste. His charms don’t just hang in the air. Ozeri, with his mane of gray hair and an easy smile, is one of the most successful painters today in the genre known as photorealism. This form of painting, which seeks to reach rare technical mastery in depicting the world humans can see, is often described as one possible answer to the question, “What is painting good for in the age of the camera?”

Yigal Ozeri, and will take place at the Zimak Gallery . Ozeri's paintings are known for their hyper-realistic style, and in this series his works are steeped in innocence and sincerity. The series symbolizes a significant development in the artist's creative approach, and it shows one of the most dramatic changes his work has undergone to date. From the hit motif typical of it - portraits of women in the middle of lush nature, it shifts to the extreme and colorful urbanity of New York. Alongside this, there is also the series of paintings "Tel Aviv Stories" in which Ozeri returns to his roots, to the city that raised him, to Tel Aviv and its images.

New York-based artist Yigal Ozeri, who was featured in Juxtapoz Hyperreal book back in 2014, recently opened his third solo show with Amsterdam's Rutger Brandt Gallery. As introduced at Untitled Art Fair Miami, A New York Story presents a new direction in Ozeri's work that comprises of images capturing everyday life in one of the world's art capitals. By coming to Amsterdam's Rutger Brandt Gallery, Ozeri seeks to create a connection between two cities that are historically very closely-connected. A step away from his signature motif of distinctive young women in lush natural landscapes, A New York Story views the artist's vibrant hometown as an ever-changing source of inspiration in a significant change of aesthetic that makes the new work feel that much more authentic and dynamic. Enhanced by Ozeri's impeccable painterly technique and ability to capture profound details, this coherent selection of works provides snapshots of NYC's most idiosyncratic gems.

Born of the late ‘60s, photorealism is a strange beast, even by the standards of that era’s diverse and often discomfiting new art movements. Based on the meticulous transcription of photographs, typically taken by the artist and recording ordinary urban scenes, a group of New York and California painters developed an approach that presents itself as both radical and reactionary. The style borrows its characteristic techniques from the world of commercial art: the tracing of projected images, airbrushing, and luridly synthetic colors. Those of us accustomed to the aesthetics of more traditional painting are apt to hesitate, if not recoil. Likewise, the matter-of-fact emphasis on the most banal aspects of contemporary American culture (readily familiar, despite the distinct period look of the early work) diverges uncomfortably from both the metaphor and sentiment of mainstream realism and the ironic social commentary of pop art, photorealism’s most obvious predecessor. It’s easy to write off the movement as kitsch: suitable perhaps for calendar art but hardly the museum.

Beyond Reality, which kicks off on 13 December, will feature world-leading hyperrealist artists, including internationally acclaimed Marc Sijan, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, John Humphreys, Yigal Ozeri, and Mike Dargas. From life-like sculptures to paintings that look like real photos, the exhibition will feature artworks that challenge you, making you question whether what you're looking at is art or real life. A creature designer for Dr Who and sculptor for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alexander, London-based John Humphreys is an expert in special effects and makes sculptures that are disturbingly close to life. He also created the Alien for Alien Autopsy, the black and white film that launched worldwide controversy around the "UFO incident" near Roswell, New Mexico, and inspired the TV series, The X-Files.

A picture may be worth 1,000 words. But a portrait of Whoopi Goldberg? That's apparently worth $250,000.The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey is unveiling a 10-foot-by-10-foot portrait of the actress, comedian and TV host at an event in September. And, yes, the museum says the painting is valued at a quarter of a million dollars.Yigal Ozeri, an Israeli artist based in New York and known for large-scale oil portraits, painted the work and is gifting it to the museum. The painting will be unveiled at an event hosted at Harrah's Waterfront Center on September 20, with both Goldberg and Ozeri expected to attend. Tickets for the unveiling are $100, with proceeds helping to maintain the museum's archives.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill currently has 73 works of contemporary Photorealist painters on view in its exhibit, From Lens to Eye to Hand: Phootrealism 1969 to Today. Included is the work of Israeli Photorealist painter, Yigal Ozeri, who is the subject of filmmaker Vincent Zambrano’s latest documentary, Yigal Ozeri: The Chameleon. The film will be screened at the Museum on Friday, December 1 at 6 p.m. and will be followed by an artist’s talk with Zambrano and Ozeria. The 102 minutes documentary, which contains brief moments of nudity, was produced in 2016 and is described as a “rags to riches story” of Ozeri and his creative process. It depicts his changing techniques, ideas, genres, and features archival footage of the artist in his earlier days. Also included are interviews with those closest to Ozeri. “The film and the conversation will add another layer to the understanding of Yigal Ozeri’s life and work: his unique sense of fantasy, imagination, and ethereality,” said Corinne Erni, Curator of Special Projects at the museum.

Look at this photograph. Beautiful, right? Now look again: only this time knowing that it's actually a painting. Yes, REALLY. And it's just one of the extraordinary, hyper-realistic pieces by NYC-based artist Yigal Ozeri that are now on show at the Opera Gallery on New Bond Street. Painted using thousands of tiny brushstrokes, the works blur the line between fantasy and reality: at once idealised yet gritty, dreamlike yet true to life. Go, see, and never again be impressed by any Instagram filter.

The walls of the Zimak Gallery in State Square in Tel Aviv are currently adorned with paintings by Israeli New York artist Yigal Ozeri. The exhibition called "The Storm" has two main characters: Sonia, a peony model, and Krystal, a young African-American who my assistant met by chance and asked her to model for his paintings. In the background of the figures is Bar Mountain Park next to the Hudson River, north of the New York metropolitan area. The characters wear little or no clothes at all, and each one appears in several paintings that are reminiscent of each other. The exhibition catalog also includes paintings by actress Whoopi Goldberg and Chinese artist Ivy - "a powerful and wonderful political artist," according to Ozeri.