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Statement of Work
The series "Turmoil" and "In Flight" show a world inflicted by war, ethnic struggles, terrorism and global unrest. Although these are inspired by my experiences growing up in and surviving the Holocaust, they have a resonance in our present cultural landscape. This body of work was produced in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks; these works were a means by which I not only expressed my shock, horror, and profound sadness and loss, but also my hope to call attention to the relationships of contemporary conflict - between progress and destruction, between future and past. But as all may disunite, my collection and assemblage of images, words, “passages” from many different areas, suggest there can be a unity amongst divergent elements – and for me, the process of painting, gives that concept an importance on both an individual and a universal level.
As an artist, I interrogate the forces that destroy and separate people and contemplate the feasibility of bringing them together peacefully by building bridges between cultures through art. I try to raise the awareness of destruction and its futility, whether human or otherwise, to give hope for a more peaceful future.
By combining personal memories of conflict and disaster with images of more recent global events, my art becomes a continuous dialogue with myself as well as the external, conveying ideas, evoking emotions and awareness. I really never lose contact with reality but I often reflect my own inner and outer world, experience and scattered impressions in painting. This fits into our turbulent times.
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Tamar Hirschl
b. Zagreb, Croatia
Lives and works in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2008
Smith Parada Gallery, Washington, DC
UJA Federation, New York, NY
Mizel Museum, Denver, CO
2006
Hebrew Union College-JIR Museum, New York, NY
Mestrovic National Gallery, Split, Croatia
2004
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2000
Gregory Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Stendhal, New York, NY
Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY (Official Poster, 38th NY Film Festival)
Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA
Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery/Walter Reade Theater, NYC (Bridges of Memories)
Museum Center “Julije Klovic, Zagreb” Croatia
Split Summer Festival, Croatia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Terror: Artists Respond, Dershowitz Center Gallery at Industry City,Brooklyn, NY
MAP, ARTLIFEFORTHEWORLD Foundation, Venice, IT
Pause Cafe, Memoire de L’Avenir, Paris, FR
The Artist Project, New York, NY
Gathering Sparks, Mizel Museum of Art, Denver, CO
Counterpoints: New York Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
2010
The Dura Europos Project, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Heart—Center of Life: Works from the New York Society of Women Artists, Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Benefizgala, Förderverein der Freunde des Chaim Sheba Medical Centers
Tel Hashomer E.V. Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
2010 International Juried Show, Rogue Space Gallery, New York, NY
The Meaning of the Line, Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
LABA’s Guests, 14th Street Y, New York, NY
2009
Art Viceroy, Miami, FL
HUC-JIR Museum, New York, NY
2008
Talent Preview, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
The Heart—Center of Life: Works from the New York Society of Women Artists, Pfizer, New York, NY
Newark Open Doors, Gallery 744, Newark, NJ
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Women Artist-Activists’ National Traveling Exhibition, MA, CA, NC
HUC-JIR Museum, New York, NY
Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
Demonstrations of Ecological Modes of Operation in Art, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY
SCOPE International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2007
Lincoln Center’s Scanners 2007 New York Video Festival, New York, NY (video)
Cool Globes Public Art Project, Chicago, IL
Nurture Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sotheby’s artIs 2007: Israel Contemporary Art in New York, at HUC-JIR Museum
2006
NYSWA at the Art Students League, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts Residency Exhibition, New York, NY
Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Krasdale Gallery, New York, NY
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) RedHead Project Space, New York, NY
2005
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
9th International Istanbul Biennale, Official Independent Project, Istanbul, Turkey
Cooper Union Residency Exhibition, New York, NY
Waterways Project, adjunct to 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, New York
Marshall G. Allan Collection at the Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY
NYSWA 80th Anniversary at The Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
EDUCATION
Lesley College, MA, Cambridge, MA, USA
The State College of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Tel Aviv Kalisher School of Art, Israel
Bezalel School of Art, Israel
RESIDENCIES
2006 SVA Summer Residency Program
2005 Cooper Union Residency Program
COLLECTIONS
American Friends of Rabin Medical Center
Bill and Hillary Clinton
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York
Queens Museum of Art
Sheba Medical Center, Berlin
Tel Aviv Museum
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
Whelan, Aubrey, “Images of Ben-Gurion and Ahmadinejad Update Ancient Frescoes”, The Jewish Daily Forward, January 18
2009
Weintraub, Linda, “Demonstrations of Ecological Modes of Operation for Art”,
The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Journal, Fall
2008
McBee, Richard, “Envisioning Maps”, The Jewish Press, November
Westcott, James, “Blogging Basel: Some Gems from Scope”, artreview.com, 8 June
Brown, Corrine J. “Symbiosis”, Hadassah Magazine, March: 53
Reinharz, Yael & Frances Barrow, editors, artis Contemporary Israeli Art, March
Creating Art, Promoting Change (video). brandeis.edu, May
2007
Artner, Alan G, “‘Cool Globes’ Teaches While It Delights”, The Chicago Tribune, 7 June
Lloyd, Rubin.” Cool Globes-Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet”, Art Knowledge News, June
“Cool Globes Roll into Chicago”, CBS2Chicago.com, May
Bryn, Alexa, "One Tale, Many Ways to Tell It", Forward, 29 August
Jacobson, Ben. “For Jews in Europe, a Century of Upheaval”, The Riverdale Press, 23 August
Krasdale Gallery. The NY Jewish Week, 6 July: 29
Freed, Ellen. Jerusalem and New York. LA Jewish News, May
Danis, Naomi. Happening. Lilith Magazine, February
Portraits (television). Blazer Media for Jewish Life Television, January
ben-Haim, Tsipi. “Tamar Hirschl’s Time Bomb”. Yedioth America, January
2006
Finkelpearl, Tom. “Things Fall Apart: Tamar Hirschl and Collage”. The Queens Courier, December
Lloyd, Rubin. Hebrew Union College-JIR Hosts Tamar Hirschl. Art Knowledge News, December
“Moment Gallery: Tamar Hirschl: Mementos III”. Moment Magazine, October
“The Art of Tamar Hirschl”. Artists’ Archive documentary film for Queens Museum, August;
Fels, Sophie. “Speed Limit”. Time Out NY, May
Sheridan, Terry. WBGO Journal: Queens Museum (radio). NPR 88.3 FM, January
Liebowitz, Leil. “A Museum Grows In Queens”. The NY Jewish Week, January
2005
Lyons, Jessica.” Artist Uses Canvas to Inspire”. Queens Courier, December
Bienalde ‘Iki Kita ve Otesi’. CNN Turkey, 18 October
Roche, John. “Krasdale Galleries Nurture Art in the Workplace”. Bronx Times, September
“Hirschl and Keller at Krasdale Galleries”. Antiques and the Arts Weekly, August
Cotter, Kelly-Jane. New Exhibits. Asbury Park Press, June
Heinel, Mario, editor. In My Beloved Land: The Art of Immigrants from Former Yugoslavia in Israel
2004
Hagen, Susan. “Conflict Resolution”. The Philadelphia City Paper, November
Williams Vance, Donna. “Artist Hirschl Brings ‘Memories’ to Art Alliance”. Philadelphia Daily News, November;
2001
Lombardi, D. Dominick. “At Home and In Israel, Expressing Passions”. The New York Times, December
2000
Sedlar, Jakov, producer, Martin Sheen, narrator. Bridges of Memories (film). Government of Croatia and Jerusalem Films
Charles, Goldie. “Israelis at New York Film Festival”. The Jewish Week, September
Elhadez, Eitan. Triumph of the Spirit. Kol America, November
Mendelsohn, John. “Continuity Out of Discontinuity”. The NY Jewish Week, November
Boos, Michelle. “Art the Thread of her Existence”. Art Tribune, May