Sunday, December 16, 2012 6:30 PM
Opera Gallery, 115 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012

For tickets: http://elem.org/events/

The 5th Annual Israeli Art Auction for ELEM- Israeli Youth in Distress
Public Auction by Mr. Eric Silver of the PBS Antiques Roadshow and Lillian Nassau Gallery

Ruben Nutles & Tamar Yoav


Title: A world that does not begin in Eden, and will not end with angeles
Year: 2011
Size: 100x120 cm
Description: Acrylic, ink and pencil on canvas
Value: $1300
About the Artwork: The piece's title is a reverse of the Spanish sentence written in the drawing
About the Artist: 

Ruben Nutels
Painter and graphic designer
Born in Chile, 1952
Graduate of the Bezalel Academy
of Arts and Design

Works executed in acrylic, pencil, charcoal and ink on canvas.
Nutels’ art manifests tension between realism and its context of surrealism, emotionality and impulse – the tension that arises between reality and imagination, logic and fantasy.  The paintings are, accordingly, replete with corporeal imagery that is remarkably palpable. 
Ruben Nutels, an auto and motorcycle race enthusiast, designs and builds cars, and seeks, in his drawings, movement and the beauty of dynamism.

Ruben's book:
The artist created a book by binding together 75 x 70 cm. Bristol sheets (75 x 140 cm. unfolded).  The book contains 80 spreads rendered in acrylic, pencil, charcoal and ink.  The works were painted in the already-bound book, using both sides of the sheets.

Exhibitions:
Jerusalem Artists House
Kalisher, Tel Aviv
Khan Theater, Jerusalem
Nachshon Gallery

Ruben's accomplishments as a graphic designer include the design of Israel’s 10 shekel and 2 shekel coins. 
His skill as a designer of coins and medallions a modality that is akin to sculpture has garnered him awards in Israel and abroad.

Tamar Yoav
Painter
Director of NutelStudio (graphic studio)
Born and raised in Tel Aviv
Graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in literature and sociology

Works executed in acrylic, pencil, charcoal and ink on canvas, and backed on silk paper.  The paintings are characterized by a search for interaction and contact between their intensity of color and shape in the abstract, and their quasi-realistic execution.

Varda Genossar of the Artists Residence, Herzliya:
“Tamar Yoav’s visual language is rich, multi-layered and multihued, and the opulent textures of her colors, with their great dynamism and momentum, imbue her canvases with subjects that speak of “paucity,” distress and fracture.  On the large canvases body parts take on an imposing presence that leaves the viewer disquieted.  The tension that arises between the chromatic/textural abundance and the subject matter is a distinctive feature of the paintings.”

Exhibitions:
Jerusalem Artists House
Kalisher, Tel Aviv
Khan Theater, Jerusalem
The Artists Residence, Herzliya
Nachshon Gallery




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