Alexandra Zuckerman

Alexandra Zuckerman was born in Moscow in 1981. She lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Zuckerman’s drawings and paintings engage with intricate and mysterious representations. The artist operates as of her own hidden source of images; she is not interested in suggesting a narrative nor in capturing an outer reality.

With an effortless virtuosity and a confident hand she draws portraits, figurative images, hybrid elements, worn depictions, and fairytales. As the images often overlap and cover one another, a second observation is required in order to recognize them.

In her recent series of drawings Zuckerman points out what may only be glanced at. Opaque doors, closed spaces, a keyhole, and forest animals concealed in spaces or performing on stage. The drawings themselves deal to a large extent with appearances; they seem to be executed in toiling work of engraving, yet they are not. Flatness is their guiding principle. Each seemingly-illusionistic space reminds us that we are in a display of sorts, that we are standing before a stage, a play, an amusement meant for our eyes alone.

Alexandra Zuckerman studied art in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and in Stadelschule, Frankfurt am Main.

Her works have been displayed in solo shows around Europe and Israel, including: The Dreaming House, Sabot Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Black Sun, Iaspis Open House, Stockholm; In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Gallery Christian Nagel, Berlin; The Olympians, Open Space, Art Cologne. She also participated As well as in several group shows, such as: Filosofen, Riis gallery, Stockholm; 427 gallery, Riga; Michal Helfman—Eli Petel—Alexandra Zuckerman, MK Search Art, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy; The Drawing Room, Magasin 3, Stockholm; The 1st Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art; As If Words Meant Nothing, Kunstbuero Temporary Gallery Vienna; and Garbage Man Please Garbage Me, Brun, Düsseldorf.

Special projects: 2014: Brand, Fruit and Flower Deli, a project by Lucie Fontaine featuring Alexandra Zuckerman, Stockholm.

Zuckerman has been awarded the Excellence in the Arts from Bezalel Fine Arts Department, Jerusalem and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship.