The work of the Israeli artist, Yigal Ozeri, is part of the Hyperrealist movement born in the United States at the end of the 1960s. In it, fundamental artists in the history of painting such as Richard Estes, Edward Hopper, and Chuck Close took as a model the photographic image and tried to capture reality with great precision, while aspiring for the pictorial representation to reach absolute sharpness, one even greater than the capacity of the human eye.
With a body of work focused on making paintings of beautiful women in the midst of nature that interweaves the illusion of the dreamlike, cinematic world with pictorial realism, Ozeri has exhibited in hundreds around the world. The series A New York Story and Americana Mark a change of direction in his work, now focused on revealing the urban world of one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Yigal uses the unsuspecting photographic record to create works with rigor and meticulousness, delving into the richness of everyday life through the artifice offered by painting. In contemporary times, painting what could have been photographed and printed is also a statement about painting, its validity, and its amplifying power of reality.
Yigal Ozeri's work currently resides in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Albertina Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.