Curator: Lori Peshnitsa
Smadar Berman was born in Tel Aviv. She studied at the High School of Art, and later in the Art Teachers' College in Ramat Hasharon and graduated with a bachelor's degree in literature and art.
She received her master's degree after graduating from the College of Arts and Social Sciences in Netanya, with an emphasis on the connections of the society around us with the world of the arts.
Her works are rich in color, in dots, in circles, in content, concealing various allegorical meanings with symbolic images from the woman's world, the zodiac, with circle surfaces and dots. As part of a trip to Australia, she visited an Aboriginal painting exhibition and also traveled to a remote village where Aboriginal women painted female figures on canvas sliced to the ground. Aboriginal paintings have widespread use of points and intersections. These forms are associated with images of the honeycomb, animal skins, cobwebs and more. The dots also mark the traces of humans and animals that passed through the site in the dream age. Drawing is an ideogram - an image that represents ideas. According to the Aboriginal view, the world is made up of meaningful signs and forms signify a wide range of meanings. Thus, a circle can represent a water hope, a path, a fruit or a fire. A straight line can mark a way. Wavy lines can indicate running water, a rainbow, snakes or hills. Arrows mark animal traces and their shape varies by animal type.
Deeply impressed, she decided that as soon as she returned to Israel she would try to incorporate elements of Aboriginal art and symbolism that accompany her. Smadar also incorporated in her paintings the Grid method (network). Her painting platform is divided into a web of surfaces, each treated as a separate piece, laden with magical mysterious textures.
The exhibition "Woman Embroidery" presents works in two series, with the woman's figure dominating most of them. Smadar is equipped with a rich creative experience, navigating her women in colorful composition, from a place to Gendry with great talent - in a mysterious and engaging layout. In painting everything floats. Every form, every attraction, every color, every thought, like words - that become a story, with past and future past. In a number of paintings, the image of the woman is seen as a self-defense, capable of fighting back - verbal, intellectual, ideological. The animal like the woman and the mother teaches a major life lesson in every period of life. It symbolizes the attachment to her natural instincts, nature, wild roots, lusts like power, curiosity, power, position and more. The zodiac paintings contain the animals of the zodiac Capricorn Aries Aries Fish - and the tiger that appears in the latest paintings for her is her power now.
Artist Smadar Berman participated in three exhibitions:
2019 - A solo exhibition at the Jerusalem Theater. Curator - Doron Pollack.
2019 - A solo exhibition at the Petah Tikva Arts and Culture Center. Curly Nili lives.
2020 - Group exhibition at Davidson Tower Hadassah Ein Kerem Jerusalem. Curator Rachel Ziv.
"Woman Embroidery" in the W Tower Gallery, this is her third solo exhibition.
Artist Smadar Berman, an education woman, preschool director of informal education in Givat Shmuel. Art is the spice of her life and painting is her existential and basic need. Her works are intriguing and impressive. She paints and creates with great pleasure from the emotional involvement that surrounds her and she celebrates through them on the fabric that unfolds in her eyes. She wants to continue to paint, exhibit at exhibitions in Israel and around the world and reach great exposure.
All pieces are for purchase.
Contact details: 050-5500359

Lori Peshnice curator of the exhibition

מגדל W רחוב ניסים אלוני 6, מתחם צמרת, תל אביב. הכניסה חופשית בכל ימות השבוע בין השעות 8:00-20:00