Artist Statement
As an artist, I explore themes related to personal and social space, drawing inspiration from nature, the environment, and geography.
My artistic repertoire encompasses paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations. With a background in teaching geography, I find myself deeply connected to cartography, often incorporating elements from road maps, antique globes, and atlases into my work. In pieces where I depict celestial bodies resembling earth but with abstract shapes and varying sizes, I use hundreds of pages from road maps and atlases to sculpt continents and planets. Through these soft materials, I reimagine familiar landscapes, prompting questions about the effects of global climate change and the creation of new boundaries. Amidst today's global migration crises, I explore whether physical boundaries also manifest as emotional barriers, and I ponder the nuances of personal boundaries across different societies and individuals. In my drawings, I often employ repetitive forms reminiscent of embroidery patterns, evoking organic shapes like climbing plants or fossils. Similarly, my "Rocks" sculptures and photographic series feature surfaces adorned with shredded geographic maps, their amorphous forms suggesting internal organs or the landscapes of fictional celestial bodies. My artistic process is diverse, ranging from meticulous craftsmanship to spontaneous, free-flowing actions. Through experimentation and playful exploration, I deconstruct and reconstruct elements to create new narratives that challenge perceptions of reality and provoke contemplation about its meaning and plausibility.
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Lives and works in her studio located in Greater Tel Aviv area.
Education:
2018-2019 Institute for Israeli Art at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Jaffa
2014-2018 Multidisciplinary Art studies, Minshar College of Art, Tel Aviv
1992-1994 East Asian studies, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv
1977-1981 Geography teacher training studies, Kibbutzim College of Education
Special Projects:
2024 Supernatural, group project, The Open Gallery for Environmental Art,
Shikma Park Rishon LeZion
Curators: Efi Gen, Keren Weisshaus
2022 'Sculpturing Her Life&', The Lab, Tel Aviv. Curator: Sharon Tuval
2022 'Sculpturing Her Life&' (Extended Exhibition), Studio Kedem Sason, Tel Aviv
2021 The best works of the 2021 Illustration Week exhibitions in 60 light boxes.
The alleys of Old Jaffa, The Jaffa street gallery. Curator: Yuval Saar
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 'If we open people up we we'd find landscapes' Studio Gabi Yair, Tel-Aviv
Curator: Gabi Yair
2023 'Fructure', Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
Curator: Avital Katz
2023 'Rujum', The White Gallery, Hatzor |Ashdod
Curator: Nurit Melamed
2022 'Line. Dot. Line', The new Artists house, Rishhon Lezion.
Curator: Vera Pilpoul
Group Exhibitions:
2025 'The Drawing Biennale #2 of Rishon lezion', The new Artists house, Rishon lezion.
Curators: Lea topper & Jennifer Bloch.
2025 'Organic Weave', Tel Aviv Artists House, Tel Aviv
Curator: Ilan Moyal
2025 'There is Nothing More Complete than a Broken Hart', Artists House Kfar-Saba
Curator: Svetlana Reingold
2025 'Un Viaggio Per La Pace', Polo Le Rosine, Torino, Italy
Curators: Ermanno Tedeschi & Vera Pilpoul
2024 Unveiling Human Echoes, Art In Motion Festival 2024, Ras Al Khaimah.
Curator: Sharon Tuval
2023 The 37 th Kyoto Art Visual Festival, International Exchange, Kyoto, Japan
2023 'Plastic Footprint', Group Exhibition TEO Center for art & Culture Herzelia,
Curators: Vera Pilpul & Beenee See
2022 'When Planets Spins Out', Carmel Forest Art, Group Exhibition, Carmel Forest Hotel
Curator: SharonToval
2022 'On the edge of the Anthropocene', Group Exhibition, Minshar Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Curator: Noam Wenkert
2022 'The Drawing Biennale #1 of Rishon lezion', The new Artists house, Rishon lezion.
Curators: Lea topper & Jennifer Bloch.
2021 'Biographical Pathways,' duo exhibition, Tel Aviv Illustration Week. Curator: Vera Pilpoul
2021 Take me Home, group exhibition at the Jerusalem Biennale, old building of Shaarei Tzedek,
Jerusalem
2021 Group Project, NOX Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, part of Fresh Paint Art Fair.
Curators: Limor Margulis, Vera Pilpoul
2021 'Verisimilitude', group exhibition, Sklar Levy Gallery, Modiin.
Curators: Audrey Sklar and Shirley Wegner
2019 'Graduation Ball', Fresh Paint Art Fair Satellite Exhibition project, Beit Tami, Tel Aviv.
Curator: Carmit Blumensohn
2018 Graduates’ Exhibition, Minshar School of Art, Installation and Drawing final projects.
Curators: Leor Grady and Oded Yedaya
2014 'About this and that and Dada', Salute to 99 years of Dadaism, Pavilion 16, Tel Aviv Port in
association with Janco-Dada Museum. Curator: Eti Fabian
2010 'Route of Paint', solo exhibition, Yefet Street, Jaffa
Publications:
2025 'The Lab Art Book' - First 5 years, 2019-2024
2024 The Lab art website: https://www.thelabart.com/installations/ophira-spitz/sculpting-her-life
2024 'If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes', ArtToday online magazine
2024 Al-Tiba9 Magazine ISSUE15 - ORIGINAL
2023 Catalog of the 37th Kyoto Art Visual Festival, International Exchange, Kyoto, Japan
2023 'Fracture', Portfolio online magazine
2023 'Fracture, Can Art Magazine
2023 'Rujum', Portfolio online magazine
2022 Catalog of the Drawing Biennale, Rishon Lezion, Israel
2022 'Line.Dot.Line', Portfolio art magazine
2022 'Line.Dot.Line', ArtToday Magazine.
2021 'Fresh Paint'; NOX Gallery, Portfolio online magazine: https://www.prtfl.co.il/archives/154416
2021 Interview at AL-Tiba 9 Contemporary Art Magazine .
2020 44Degrees Magazine, Special Art Collection.2020. PART TWO
2018 'Border Line': Portfolio online magazine
2018 Smadar Sheffi, “ The Window ” art blog on Minshar graduates
2019 Fresh Paint magazine , “Graduation Ball”
2018 'Border Line': Portfolio online magazine
Collections:
Janko Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel, private collections