Bracha Guy
Seeking a new means of expression
An artist whose creative impulse is rarely at rest. She is continually seeking unusual contextual combinations and forms. Throughout her work certain characteristics and motifs recur: a rich palette, ornamentation with a pronounced Eastern nuance, and the figure of a woman.
That woman exhibits beauty, happiness, sensuality fertility as well as confidence, calm and control. With strong hues of red, green, turquoise and gold combing ancient and modern cultures, Bracha Guy creates a festive atmosphere, reflecting her optimism about life.
The ordinances of her paintings, with her abundant convoluttons, generate a warm atmosphere of cushioning and flattery charm. Contemplating her works, the spectator is enthusiastically and movingly drawn into beauty of the astonishing world mirrored there. Instead of a calculated plan, Guy's works are a release of feeling through color and form.
She does not paint from sketches, rather, from the moment she holds a bush in her hand, color takes charge.
As the artist herself puts it, l have a yearning to cover the world with beauty, to create and infuse it with life. Transforming the figure of a woman into a creative work is a kind of dream, an idea or fantasy, like a rrolling stone from the top of a mountain and seeing where it goes.
Born in Israel
Education: 1970-1974 Avni School of Art, Tel-Aviv
Studied under Mob Mizrahi
ONE PERSON SHOWS
Art Gallery - Rockville, MD Culture
1993 - Avant Garde Gallery, Washington, DCGoldman Art Gallery Rockville MD-Culture Hall - Netaniah- Print Museum, Saffed
1992 - philip More House, Eilat
1991 - Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1990 - Artist's House, Jerusalem - Dutch Ambassadors Residence, Herzlia
1987 - Mishkan Leomanuth Gallery, Holon
1986 - Ramat Gan Museum
1985 - Yad Labanim Museum, Petah Tikvah
1984 - Gallery Hasimta, Jaffa
GROUP SHOWS
1992 - Gordon 30 Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Discount Bank, Petah TikvahKefar Tavor Museum
1991 - Artsy Gallery, Haifa
1989 - Artist's Association, Tel-Av&
1988 - Mayrovrtz Gallery. NewJersey
1983-1991 Yad Labanim Museum, Petah Tikvah