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Israeli Artists Project Website:
https://www.israeliartistsproject.org/
Stav Festival Website:
https://stavfestival.org/
Autumn Show
Israeli Artists Project Presents:
Stav Festival
For All Purchasing Inquiries
Email: Stavfestival@gmail.com
Location: The 14th Street Y Lobby
344 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003
On View Through October 29th
Artists
BASMAT LEVIN
EFRAT BALER - MOSES
Artist Statement
Israeli-born artist Basmat Levin is opening a new pop-up show entitled From Shanghai to NY at 302 Bowery. The show features a mix of her works from China and new paintings from her Tribeca studio. Basmat is an established artist in the Shanghai art world. Due to the pandemic Basmat was forced to close her beloved studio in the Shanghai M50 Art District after 15 years. Basmat’s vibrant patterns and funky portraiture have been featured all over Shanghai–from MOCA Pavilion Museum and Dunhill Villas to Green Flower Park, Suzhou Village, and a graffiti building in the neighboring water town of Zhujiajiao. Her work was also found on the walls of exclusive nightlife venues in Shanghai and Hong Kong, such as the Kee Club, Havana Latin Bar, Ginger and Glam. Basmat has furthermore collaborated with fashion designer Chris Chang/Poesia on a line of clothes, featuring Basmat's paintings printed on them. She has also worked with Suzhou Cobblers and the sustainable textile company W2W, printing her art on their recycled-plastic fabrics. Back in New York, Basmat crafted an installation in Times Square (1410 Broadway), where her bright, large art pieces were displayed throughout the building's lobby, elevators, and all 32 floors. She also has a floor-to-ceiling Immersive Room installation at Ethan Cohen’s Gallery @ Kube art center in Beacon.
Biography
Basmat Levin, an Israeli artist based in NYC, has spent the last 15 years between her studios in Shanghai M50 Art District and Manhattan. Basmat’s vivid paintings capture the world’s energy through expressions of color and texture. creating monumental public installations bringing her studio practice to the outdoors. Her paintings and installations have been widely exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, and public spaces, as well as being featured in major motion pictures such as “The Upside,” “Dinner Rush,” and “Suburban Girl,” among others. 
 Her latest installations have been exhibited in New York: Volta 23 art fair, Pop Up solo show at the 302 Bowery gallery, 1410 Broadway, Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center. In Shanghai: The MOCA Museum Pavilion, I-Green Pujiang Park. In Suzhou: Yi Ou Lai Village. Zhujiajiao: The Water Town and Costa Rica’s San Juan Airport.
Artist Statement
Efrat Baler creates multidimensional artworks, 3D sculptural paintings and reliefs that challenge boundaries, blurring the lines between painting and sculpture. Using dynamic elements and transdisciplinary techniques she explores alternate ways to view and exhibit paintings while honoring traditional painting tools.
Biography
Efrat Baler is an Israeli-born, NY based artist. BFA recipient from the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. She received the American-Israeli Culture Foundation award and was selected as one of the ten most promising Israeli artists of the 80s by Philip Leider critic and founding editor of ARTFORUM. She has been a guest lecturer at prestigious institutions and worked as a private art instructor and educator in NYC, Brooklyn, and Jerusalem, and at the Tate Americas Foundation. Her artworks have been in over 50 group shows and 6 solo exhibitions across the US, Israel, and Germany. Her works are in private collections.
GAL SEGALL
Artist Statement
My artworks are drawn from nature's gifts and expressed through vibrant and glistening colors. This has empowered me to explore combinations of textures, a union of colors, forms, and mediums, blending to discover the endless path. My art focuses on how an abstract expressionist artist and teacher explores the use of materials, methods, and experimentation via the application of wood, stones, gold leaf, wire, and other mediums in the development of the presented pieces.
Biography
I am an Early Childhood Teacher with a background in Art. I hold a master’s degree in Early Childhood / Special Education and have incorporated art into my teaching methodology. I’ve been teaching in early childhood programs for over 20 years. In 2020, I launched a Reggio-Emelia inspired art program which has been incorporated into several schools in Westchester, NY.
OMER BEN - ZVI
Artist Statement
Ben-Zvi (b. 1984, Ein Harod, Israel) is a multi-disciplinary artist who combines photography, installation, printmaking, ceramics, and other photo-based objects. In recent years, his work focused on the human gaze, the contemporary shifting of visual perspectives, and the influence of image-related technologies on the human experience. His work deals mainly with memory and identity, territorial claims, and invasiveness.
Biography
Ben-Zvi holds an MFA from New York University (2018), a BFA from the Neri Bloomfield School of Design in Haifa (2015), and participated in a student exchange program at BTK University in Berlin (2014). Ben-Zvi had several solo shows and participated in multiple group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Israel. He lives and works in New York.
LEE TAL
Artist Statement
In my still life works, I’m not to just paint the image, but I construct/build it from an individual abstract sections. The creation of the image evolving from the abstract palette knife paint strokes I use to make my paintings. And although the end compositions can be figurative, the power of painting—when it has any power at all—is in the total effect. And that effect in its essence, is abstract, regardless of the elements that went into creating the painting.
Biography
Lee Tal is New-York based multi-disciplinary artist. In his early works Tal’s draw his inspiration from everyday objects we used in our daily Life, while he attempts to dismiss their original purpose. By using wide range of artistic historical and contemporary reference. Since the end of his academic studies, he conducted as an active artist His work is collected by major collections worldwide, and his works was exhibits globally, Include at the Tel Aviv museum of art, MASin museum in Mexico, Sejong National Contemporary Art Museum in Seoul, SAMA Museum, NDMOA Museum, CICA Art Museum, Susquehanna Art Museum and the Whitney Museum in NYC.
LIRI AGAMI
Artist Statement
As a photographer, I believe that connecting with people is just as crucial as the technical and artistic process, which is one of the primary reasons I chose this art form.
Biography
Liri (b. 1998) is an Israeli photographer based in Brooklyn. Her work varies from portraits to fine art, and explores the character and aesthetics of the overlooked. When moving to New York, she started to find interest in other foreign communities while exploring firsthand the chronicles of being far from home. Liri’s first solo exhibition “one month three cameras” took place in “All Street” gallery in the east village, and presented photos from her recent travel to India.
MICHAL NACHMANY
Artist Statement
One of the central themes of Nachmany’s work is that “every person and every object has a journey.” Her work focuses on the ways personal and cultural journeys are captured in memories and objects, with work that reimagines and repurposes found objects of daily life. As an immigrant from Israel to New York, she explores the journeys of people and their keepsakes from a personal perspective.
Biography
Nachmany’s technique combines mixed media, including collage, printmaking, and sculptural installation, to sew together swatches of life through images, colors, and words.Nachmany's work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York City and New York State. Her first international solo exhibit was held in Taipei, Taiwan followed by a show in Krakow, Poland. Among others, Nachmany was commissioned by Columbia University to create art celebrating the university’s newly opened Manhattanville Urban Campus; 10 such art pieces are installed now in Columbia University’s Faculty House.
NOY FINER
Artist Statement
"I always absorb inspiration from my environment. Growing up in a small village in Israel, I was constantly surrounded by endless orchards bursting with abundant growth. The colors I witnessed and felt during my childhood profoundly influenced my artistic approach and the content I aspire to create. Moving to New York in 2019 was a life-changing experience that exposed me to city life—crowded, urban, and loud—yet I found myself drawn to it. What fascinates me the most about photography is the pursuit of fleeting moments; how a single click can transform ordinary scenes into a new world, reflecting my own interpretation of my surroundings. This quest, this search after the powerful moment that’s out there to be taken is by far my passion and love about photography.”
Biography
Noy Finer is a NYC based abstract and urban photographer, originally from Moshav Yarkona, in Central Israel. Noy is currently enrolled at the prestigious institute, International Center of Photography (ICP), and works excessively with artists, venues, architects, and real estate developers around the city. Noy's past exhibitions include: 2023 Hod HaSharon, Israel - Family Day (group exhibition) 2022 Pink Stone Capital, New York City, USA - SoHo Art Show (group exhibition) 2019 Itzik Canetti's Studio, Tel Aviv, Israel - Colors (group exhibition)
OMER KAPLAN
Artist Statement
Since his childhood, Omer Kaplan has used the camera as a self-therapeutic tool. He has recorded moments of frustration, and depression. In his work, he explores themes of mental health through psychological portraits and experimental videos combining elements of surrealism, dadaism and collage. Kaplan explores themes of self-validation, sexuality, and masculinity.
Biography
Omer Kaplan is a visual artist born and raised in Israel. His work was featured in international fairs and magazines such as a photo essay in Vogue Italia, Exposure Haaretz and a performance piece in Miami Art Week. Kaplan was a member of the Soho Photo gallery, where he exhibited his project Narratives of the Afternoon as part of the Art Justice show. Prior to moving to New York to attend ICP where he received the Director’s Fellowship, Omer was the authoritative source of knowledge for anything regarding Operational Photography during his military service in the Israel Defense Forces.
SHANI NIZAN
Artist Statement
“As we are born, we are free beings gifted with the ability to find the utmost joy in the small things, living in the moment through them. As we get older and exposed to everyday life concerns, we have a tendency to detach from this pure state of mind that if kept, would maybe serve as a tool to deal with daily hardships. Through my art, I am looking to connect my audience and myself to that childlike feeling of innocence.×´
Biography
Shani Nizan (born November 21, 1995), is an Israeli tattoo artist based in New York. She is best known for her 'Human-Animal' figures that she refers to as her 'Creatures'. Nizan was never trained as a formal painter, but she refined her skills by painting every day. At age 18, she joined the Israeli military as an educational NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer) in the 601st Battalion of Combat Engineering. To pass the time during the long guarding duties, she would paint on her arm with a pen. The drawings went viral on Facebook and were applauded by an audience who believed they were tattoos. This sparked her tattooing career in 2017, and she studied under tattoo artist Anat Hetzrony. In 2018, Shani received a personal invitation from a leading art studio, owned by Julia Rehme in Berlin, for a permanent position. During that time, she simultaneously toured in Europe and was a guest artist in tattoo studios like Puro Milano, De l'Art ou Du Cochon in Paris, Through My Third Eye in London, Dots to Lines, and many others. After working for two years in Berlin, Shani moved to New York City. Shortly after, she returned to Israel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, She presented a solo exhibition "I Didn't Like Jazz" at Beit Haamudim in Tel Aviv. In 2021, Nizan founded "Drinking and Drawing NYC". She currently works as a resident artist at Inked NYC, a globally renowned Manhattan-based tattoo studio and gallery established by Inked Magazine.
NETANEL SASO
Biography
Netanel Saso is from Tel - Aviv Israel and holds a BFA from The Cooper Union. She is a multi-media artist, filmmaker, and photographer. For the past 10 years, she has worked as an arts educator at private art studios teaching K-12 and adults various art history classes and art technique-based classes. She spent many years teaching at The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.
SHARON YAVO - AYALON
Artist Statement
Yavo Ayalon uses Earth and Matal as tactile matters that represent her personal home; and also as a symbol for the collective home, that is, humanity’s “planet earth”. By laminating and dehydrating Earth, Yavo Ayalon portrays a critical statement on the lamination of planet Earth and its destruction while using the soils to connect to a place – and to express her longing for what was our past home.
Biography
Sharon Yavo Ayalon, co-founder and CEO of UrbanMix, a Real Estate software company, holds a Ph.D. in architecture and town planning from Technion Israel. Through her art, she skillfully intertwines urbanism and real estate with the timeless concept of "home." Her latest exhibition, titled "Laminated Earth," graced the 10TSZAZ Gallery in New York. Currently, she serves as a Research Scholar at Cornell Tech and holds the position of Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. Sharon's extensive experience also encompasses her roles as curator at both the PeKA Gallery for Experimental Art at Technion and the Gitai Architecture Museum.
FANNY BEN BARUCH
Artist Statement
I’m an intuitive abstract painter using acrylics. I work intuitively without a plan, respond to the paint and materials allowing them to guide me in exploring the depths of my experiences and saying what words cannot.
Biography
Fanny Ben-Baruch, a self-taught abstract painter from Israel, now resides in Manhattan with her family. After a career as a CPA, she embraced her passion for art, studying and practicing to unleash her creativity. Inspired by nature's beauty, New York City's energy, and the concept of connection, Fanny's vibrant works evoke life itself. Using acrylic paint and diverse techniques, she creates true, authentic and emotive pieces. Fanny's art captures the essence of her surroundings, reflecting her deep passion and dedication. Her visually striking expressions invite viewers on a captivating journey, encouraging personal connections and reflections within her soul-stirring creations.
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