Catalog #47
Yigal Ozeri
The Gaze2003, Oil on Linen
22 5/8 X 15 3/4
www.mikeweissgallery.comEstimated Value: 12,000 USD
About the Artist:
"He is still a conceptual director of space with passion and intrigue, but he is also a portraitist with a message - an artist intent on breaking through the gender barrier and thus reveal the innermost desires of men and women, thus signaling a new era in which we may creatively and optimistically reveal not only who we are but what we want to become." - Robert Morgan, Art Press
Yigal Ozeri has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Israel, and his work can be found in many prominent collections, including The Albertina Museum, Vienna; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington DC;, The Kuntzwerien, Wiesbaden, Germany; The Hudson valley center for contemporary art, Peekskill, NY; and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
About the Artwork:
The Gaze is part of a series of works titled
The Watcher paintings, confronting the viewer with a startled, wide-eye child whose shoulder has just been gripped by an authoritative adult’s hand. The image taps into universal childhood memories: buried narratives with no definitive tale.
