Abstract Acrylic Art Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Painting Visionary A moment to be found Maya Gelfman

Maya Gelfman

A moment to be found

Name: A moment to be found
Brand: Maya Gelfman
Price: 7500.0 USD
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Artist: Maya Gelfman
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A moment to be found
Acrylic, ink and markers on canvas. 39"/49", (98/125 cm). 2023

The summer of 2022 was very dry. In some parts of Italy and Spain there was a drought. Here, in Southern France, there was no rain and the rushing river slowed down to a trickle. Water pooled around stones, exposing the lower parts of boulders that tumbled who knows how long ago from the ancient ridge above. I could easily hop from rock to rock and place myself at the center of the timid current, in a cozy spot that soon became a favorite of mine. I would sit there, dipping my feet in a deep-ish pool of icy water and look around. Life and death were supported by this extreme weather. Bugs skidded on the surface of the water, bubbles of espresso colored foam floated on top of some of the smaller pools, swampy green blotches on others. Birds chased the bugs, so did iridescent dragonflies, dried out trees adorned the scene like vertical gold strokes, smeared across the landscape, and horizontal, circular gray-blue lines of past currents outlined the exposed rock face as summer advanced and the water level kept receding.

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Artist Biography

Maya Gelfman (b. 1978), a nomad, currently based in France.

A multidisciplinary artist focusing on “site-and-time-specific” processes.
Graduated from Shenkar School of Art & Design, BA, 2006.

Main mediums are painting, performance, installation and street-art.
Exhibition Highlights:
Gelfman has exhibited eleven solo exhibitions. This year she exhibiting new paintings at the 60th Venice Biennial, Italy. Previous solo exhibitions include the National Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand in 2015 and at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, USA. Previous group exhibitions include the Israel National Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art,

and art fairs in London, Miami, and Washington D.C.
Residencies & collections:

She has participated in six artist residencies in the U.S, Europe and Asia, including at the SAPH in Shanghai, China, Roza in Poland, and the Windgate at KSU University, USA. She was a finalist for the Halcyon House fellowship in 2019. Her works have been purchased by private and public collectors, including Lettenmayer & partners, Rivka Saker, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Creative Discovery Museum, Historic Building 98, Milu Hotel.
Media and Publications:

Her work has been featured in films and on TV, in print and online, and she has been published in four international art books.

In 2013, she gave a TEDx talk about her unique approach to art making.
Street Art:
In 2009 she co-founded 'Mind the Heart!', a street art project that has since reached over 100 cities on 5 continents, in addition to exhibiting in galleries and museums. Between 2017-2021, she created a 365/24/7 performance in public, spanning 100,000 KM (60,000 miles), across 48 States in the U.S.A.

To learn more about the journey: “The Serendipity Experiment”.

Artist Statement

My works are “snapshots” of a certain place, at a moment in time, and myself situated there and then. The commitment to site-and-time-specific processes drives me to work across mediums and materials. Indoor or outdoor, in each medium and in every context, I deploy somatic tools to engage directly with my surroundings and allow sensory input to inform artistic decisions.
The body is an integral part of the process, serving as a conduit of raw experience and expression. Art making happens not only with my hands and eyes, but also with my ears, skin, gut, breath.

Large canvases are laid on the studio floor as I "dance" on top, leaving colorful traces that mark movement through space. Brush strokes are synchronized with breathing, sounds emanating from the window navigate my hands, colors and textures are determined by the landscape, the time of day or night, the season.

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