"A Time For New Dreams": Yossi Breger, Adi Fluman, Gideon Gechtman, Admahon Galor, Yudith Levin, Eli Petel, Elham Rokni, Barak Ravitz, Shira Zelvwer.

Yudith Levin born 1949, Ein Vered, Israel, where she lives and works.

Levin is considered one of the key figures in Israeli art. Over an artistic career spanning over more than four decades, she has been creating paintings on both traditional and nontraditional supports, covering canvases as well as scraps of discarded plywood found on the streets of Tel Aviv with expressive, gestural brushstrokes and semi-abstract figures and landscapes. By combining abstraction and figuration and using deliberately vague titles, Levin makes evocative works that are open to varied readings. The artist confronts the viewer with a borderline painting – in-between nothingness and a whole universe, between chaos and diamond, between a dump and flight. One of the places where Levin’s work deviates from the rational is the lack of distinction between figurative and abstract. Her figurative paintings are created like abstract paintings, from gestures which are not underlain by any figurative plan or intention. Ouzi Zur, the most prominent critic of Haaretz newspaper, described Yudith Levin in 2021 as 'The Purest Voice in Israeli Art'.

I use art to glorify ordinary subjects and instances and thus compel the observer to focus on them in detail. I sculpt with raw wax, constantly exploring new ways to manipulate it and once shaped I paint them. The painting process brings the sculptures back to life, I paint the sculptures in a very precise and detailed manner, however, not perfect, imitating life. I would like to allow the observer, when facing my subjects, often common objects, experience desire and compassion towards them.”

-Shira Zelwer