Maayan Strauss

Catalog # 34

Maayan Strauss

"Landscape" 1/ 4

2010

Size: 69x55 cm

Digital Print
Estimated Value: $1200

About the artwork:

The piece is a part of a series of black and white photographs. The photographs, taken with a view camera (large format), document models made of dirt, sand and stones, collected from construction sites in New-Haven (where the artist currently resides). The plain "models" appear as landscapes through their documentation, referring by their character to landscapes of Israel, where the artist is from. (- made it not political...let me know if you think it reads well)

About the artist:

Maayan Strauss was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1982 and grew up in Tel Aviv. She currently lives and works in New Haven, CT, where she is pursuing her MFA at Yale School of Art. Solo Shows: "Sweethearts", Project at “Fresh paint Art Fair” Tel-Aviv, March 2009. "Land Cruiser", Video installation, Herzeliya Museum of Contemporary Art, June 2007. "On the Way to IKEA", Givon Gallery, Tel-Aviv May 2003. Group Shows: "Correspondences", Yaffo 23, Jerusalem, October 2010. “Artist at Work”, group exhibition, Left Bank Gallery, Tel-Aviv, May 2009. “Internazionale!”, group exhibition, Left Bank Gallery, Tel-Aviv, September 2008. "Treasure", group exhibition, GDK Gallery, Berlin, October 2008. “Family", Project at “Mix-Art Festival”, Rishon Le-Zion park, April 2008. "Dead End", group exhibition, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv, February 2008. "The Rear", The Herzeliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, September 2007. "Guests", group exhibition, Kav-16 gallery, Tel-Aviv, April 2006. "Mini Israel", group exhibition, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, March 2006. "Seduction", group exhibition, 'Comme Ill Faut' gallery, Tel-Aviv, March 2006. "Conflicted", Israeli photography exhibition, Menier gallery, London, September 2005. "Uniform Ltd", group exhibition, Senate Gallery, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, June 2004. "Sharon", group exhibition, Kalisher Gallery (CCA), Tel-Aviv, May 2004. "Imagine-Artists for Co-Existence", group exhibition, Rosenfeld gallery, Tel-Aviv, March 2002. "It All Begins at Home", group exhibition, 'Comme Ill Faut' gallery, Tel-Aviv, March 2002. "Were are the Children?", group exhibition, Givon gallery, Tel-Aviv, December 2001. "I Slept with Ari Libsker"- group exhibition, The Free Academy Art Pavilion, Tel-Aviv, May 2001. Other projects: Co-curator (with Joshua Simon and Roy Arad) of: "Doron" - a group exhibition in The Minshar school gallery, Tel-Aviv May 2006, and "The New and the Bad", a series of exhibitions in the Maayan Magazine art gallery, 2007-2008. Selected Publications: The New & the Bad, Art magazine, Issue no. 1, 2009. Hamidrasha Magazine, Feminism and Israeli Art, Issue no. 10, 2007. Mini Israel, Exhibition Catalog, Israel Museum, 2006. Maayan Magazine for Poetry Art and Ideas, Issue no. 2, winter 2006. Maayan Magazine for Poetry Art and Ideas, Issue no. 1, 2005. Hamidrasha Magazine, War, Issue no. 6, 2003. Education: 2012 Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT Master of Fine Arts, Photography 2008 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel Bachelor of Architecture 2000 Alon School of Arts, Ramat-Hashron, Israel Concentration: Visual Arts 

Website:

http://maayanstrauss.com/