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Tamar Hirschl was born in Zagreb, Croatia and relocated to Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust. She studied art at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Kalisher School of Art and State College of Art in Tel Aviv, and earned her MA from Lesley College in Cambridge. Garnering solo exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the United States, she established a successful artistic career in Israel before moving to New York City in 1999.
Since opening her New York studio, Tamar’s works have grown larger in format, more varied and daring in materials and techniques, and stronger, more gestural and expressive in response to her new surroundings.
Tamar began painting wall-sized murals on vinyl in 2001, mixing techniques used in historical mural painting with the large scale and powerful format of billboard advertising. Using collage and digital printing in addition to painting, Tamar combines personal memories of disaster with images of more recent global confrontations.
Collage has always been a major element of Tamar’s work, and often represents archaeology of individual, intimate feelings. In 2004, Tamar began exploring the use of collage in greater depth with her Civilization series; three dimensional works which contain human and environmental elements in aquariums of cast acrylic resin, depicting the clash between the natural world and the manmade.
As a response to the intrusive impact that man’s modern progress has had on the environment and the natural habitats of animals, Tamar began working with deer imagery during a residency at Cooper Union in 2005. The deer appear frequently in Tamar’s work and are representative of the fragility of all animal life in the face of human intervention.
Recently Tamar has been making use of collage techniques by combining found and recycled materials into a new series of sculptures. The sculptures use animal armatures filled in with discarded paper, scraps, trash, and other detritus. As Tamar collected and accumulated this trash in her studio, she began to focus on the accumulation of artifacts from our disposable culture, and our general indifference to where our trash comes from and what it becomes. By asking the viewer to interact with our garbage in a different way, Tamar initiates a conversation about the relationship of a disposable economy to both the environment and to the practice and business of selling art.
Tamar’s current work continues to be engaged with environmental issues and addresses the preservation of ecological balance during a time of rapid developmental progress in the civilized world. |
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