Title: Israel in my Belly
Year: 2010
Size: 11x16"
Description: Unframed digital photograph
Edition: of 15
Edition: of 15
Value: $1,000
About the Artwork:
Self portraits of the artist wearing a handmade dress sown and crochet with mirror and mirrored blown glass. The mirror, shaped like the Israeli map creates a cavity within the artists body while reflecting her surroundings
About the Artist:
Born in the US Alexandra Ben-Abba grew up in Jerusalem, Israel. Her work explores aspects that are inherent and specific to her Israeli identity and culture and springs from observation of events and human relationships she experience. Transforming these experiences into artwork Ben-Abba investigates the material glass and its qualities, experimenting with reflections, projections, fragility and transparency she makes objects and record actions that result in sculptural, installation, photographic and video work. She graduated from RISD, with a MFA in Glass and with a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Her work has been exhibited internationally and included in the Greenpoint Film Festival and Heller Gallery, NYC; Galerie Pokorná, Czech Republic; Hyperopia Projects, WA; the Museum of Art and the Gelman Gallery, Providence RI; Sydney College of Art, Australia and Eretz Israel Museum, Israel.
Website: www.alexandrabenabba.com
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