Orly Maiberg
Orly Maiberg was born in 1958 in Tel Aviv, where she lives and works.
Orly Maiberg has developed a unique outlook on nature, urban nature, as well as on the human figure in its intimate, close surroundings (the realm of the private). The paintings are well anchored in the physical nature of artistic creation, manifested in the strong sense of a physicality confronted with the canvas, and in the repetitive gesture. While each painterly gesture remains distinct at the same time it is also embedded, inseparable from the entire surface. Maiberg’s paintings examine the boundaries between truth and illusion, the internal and external, dreams and reality, portraits and landscapes.
Orly Maiberg paintings correspond to one of the directions in contemporary discourse preoccupied with images of reality. Maiberg uses photography as a source material for her paintings: she takes color photos and then uses a black and white photocopier, selects and isolates a frame, a composition and limits. The connection between photography and painting takes the forefront, as she examines the space between life and art, the space where everyday activity turns into an act of art, in and of itself.
With her last series White Ink Maiberg has expanded her artistic practice in a series of prints. The process began with drawing in a notebook with watercolor and ink. With a complete dedication to the daily practice, the act of drawing became supposedly automatic, removed from thinking or drawing conclusions. The figures depicted in the drawings underwent a process of abstraction that revealed a lack of physical perfection, vulnerability, and deformity. This series attests to the ongoing process of the artist’s dilemmas concerning the body’s durability versus its vulnerability and even its demise.
Orly Maiberg studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, (1979), at the New York School of Visual Arts (1980), Andy Warhol Studio, New York, (1983-84), and holds a BFA from the NY School of Visual Arts in the Skohegen Program.
Orly Maiberg has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan and at Galerie O Ahlers, Gottingen, Germany. Her works were featured in numerous group exhibitions such as Looking Ahead, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California in 2000; Art Forum Berlin in 2004/05 and 2006; Fiac, Cour Carree du Louvre, Paris in 2006; Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2009; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem in 2007; and Haifa Museum of Art in 2014.
Orly Maiberg
1958-Born in Israel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Education
1979 California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
1980 New York School of Visual Arts
1983-84 Silk Screening at Andy Warhol Studio, New York
1984 – B.F.A. NY School of Visual Arts’ scholarship for Skohegen Program
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Where do we go from here, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 Out of the Blue, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2017 Pending View, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2015 White Ink, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2012 Sea of Galilee, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2010 B-side paintings, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2007 New Works, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2005 solo show – art forum berlin
2004 I’ll Pull Down the Sky for You, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2003 Bedroom Eye, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2000 Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1999 Galerie O Ahlers, Gottingen, Germany
1998 Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1997 Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1994 Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1992 Mary Fawzi Gallery, Jaffa
1988 Rapp Gallery, Tel Aviv
1985 Spring st. gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 25 Years to Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2018 Summer Signs, Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture, Tel Aviv-Yaffo
2018 Erotic Salon, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2018 I Man Bed, Haim Shtruman House, Ein Harod
2018 Wanderers #1, Open University Campus, Raanana
2017 Anonimx: The end of the privacy era, Haifa Museum of Art
2017 Beyond Body, The Wilfrid Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea
2017 Biennale 6 Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
2016 Open Sketchbooks, Herzliya Museum
2015 Visions of place, Rutgers-Camden Center for the arts, New Jersey
2014 Chicago triangle, Haifa art Museum
2009 Tel aviv time, curator: nili goren, Tel Aviv Museum
2007 Touching the Water, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2006 Fiac, Cour Carree du Louvre, Paris
2006 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
2005 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
2004 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
2004 Love is in the Air, Montifiori , Tel Aviv , curator: Tami Katz Freiman
2001 Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2000 Looking ahead, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
California, USA
1999 Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1999 Art Frankfurt, Galerie O Ahlers, Frankfurt, Germany
1999 American Artists, Tel Aviv Museum, curator: Varda Shteinlauf
1999 Tel Aviv 90th Anniversary – Contemporary Cityscapes”, Israeli and
1999 Zurich Art Fair, Galerie O Ahlers , Zurich, Switzerland
1995 Autumn Salon, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1995 “New Works”, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art
1994 Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1994 Nofar Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993 Sara Conforti Gallery, Jaffa
1991 Mary Fauzi Gallery, Jaffa
1988 Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
1988 Ein Harod Museum, From light to darkness, curator: Galia Baror , Museum Ein Harod
1985 Ehad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv
1983 Houston Gallery, New York
1983 S.V.A. Gallery, Soho, New York
Special projects
2014 European on Allenby street , Israel museum , Jerusalem. Intervining with the permanent Judaica collection at the Israel museum, a work relating to the Stieglitz ( the artist’s grandfather) collection
2014 Scholarship for Cite Residency, Paris
2011 Work Place indicating and curetting a special project for fresh paint 4. Inviting the artists Zoya Charkasky, Yochay Matos, Doron Solomons and Shachr Golan Sarig to a sight specific work
2010 directing and producing a song and a video clip with the musician Avi Balleli and the actress Orli Zilbershatz to the song “I got you babe”
2009 initiating and editing a special issue of the popular “laisha” magazine, all dedicated to women artists
2008 I did it my way, curating and inviting artists and musicians to cooperate, rothchild 69, art tlv
Collections
Private and corporate collections in Israel, USA, Europe
October 29, 2019
November 23, 2017
April 30, 2015
May 10, 2012
June 10, 2010
April 19, 2007
December 2, 2004
April 10, 2003
Jun 01, 2015
May 03, 2015
Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2013
May 28, 2012
Jun 16, 2010
Jun 04, 2010
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