The Israeli Artist Rachel Gordin - Curriculum Vitae
Rachel Gordin
Born on moshav Bitsaron. A graduate of the Art Teachers Training College.
Studied at the Avni Institute of Art, Tel Aviv and at the Artists Studios, Ein Hod.
Deals with sculpture using various materials. Paints with mainly mixed materials.
She has taught art at the WIZO vocational high school, Rehovot. She also taught Ceramic Sculpture at the Rehovot Cultural Center on behalf of the Art Cathedra. Is a member of the Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association Gordin volunteers working with mentally disabled youngsters.
Rachel Gordin was born and grew up on moshav Bitsaron in Israel . She launched her artistic career with a series of paintings, "Earth-Human Being" which already characterizes her as a unique Israeli Artist.. In her search for appropriate colors and pigments went into the fields to collect lumps of clay which she mixed with glue and pigments. These she applied to the canvas with bare hands, not even using a brush.
She then began to paint an "ecological" series in protest against man's damage to nature which is also a metaphor of the injury that man inflicts on man. After reconsideration she calls them "Apocalypse". Deforestation and logging that turn green vegetation into dead skeletons and scorched earth. Some of these paintings also feature border fences and many evoke a sense of separation, collapse, destruction and considerable melancholy.
Most of Gordin's works feature rich, warm colors although her palette is minimal. She mostly works in industrial paint.
Gordin participates regularly at artistic events on behalf of peace. These have included "Our answer is peace" at the Lebanese security fence and at the peace project at Giv'at Haviva.
Gordin is recently working on a series of paintings entitled "Rorschach" ("Inscapes"), evocative of the bleak mood that encompasses daily life. The work is composed of diptychs of identical paintings with one painting seemingly the "monoprint" of the other. These works feature rich colors and imaginative images and textures. Viewers can interpret these pictures freely, according to their own imagination.
Currently Gordin is committed to a series "Above the Horizon". This features a novel technique whereby industrial colors are poured on canvas or wrapping paper.
Her work has reached a new peak of activity, due in large part to the demand of frequent exhibitions in Israel and abroad, which has elevated her to the status of an esteemed Israeli Artist.
Gordin is represented by the Israel Museum Jerusalem among others.
Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
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Selected One-Person Exhibitions
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2011 - Felicia Blumental Center, Tel-Aviv
2010 - Dondikov House, Rehovot - Israel
2010 - Bank Main Wuerzburg - Germany
2009 - Cultural Center Regensburg - Germany
2009 - Dundikov House, Rehovot - Israel
2009 - Artist's House, Rehovot - Israel
2008 - Museum Wollhalle, Gustrow-Germany
2008 - Kloster Hegne - Germany
2007 - Municipal Gallery, Potsdam - Germany
2007 - Dundikov House, Rehovot - Israel
2007 - Bank 'Herne' - Germany
2006 - Museum Beth Hatenach, Tel-Aviv - Israel
2006 - Cultural Center, Mannheim - Germany
2006 - Burghof Museum, Lorrach - Germany
2005 - Municipal Gallery, Ashdod - Israel
2005 - Municipal Gallery, Erfurt - Germany
2004 - Municipal Gallery, Leipzig - Germany
2004 - Wittenberg Palace - Germany
2003 - Cultural Center, Speyer - Germany
2003 - Municipal Gallery, Schwerin - Germany
2002 - Municipal Gallery, Frankfurt - Germany
2002 - Peace Project, Bar David Museum - Israel
2002 - W.Kempf House, Wiesbaden - Germany
2002 - Klingspor Museum, Offenbach - Germany
2002 - Artosphera, Rehovot - Israel
2001 - Peace Gallery, Giv'at-Haviva - Israel
2001 - Municipal Gallery, Ravensburg - Germany
2001 - Artosphera, Rehovot - Israel
2000 - Bruchsal Palace, Bruchsal - Germany
2000 - Municipal Gallery, Konstanz - Germany
2000 - Municipal Gallery, Pforzheim - Germany
2000 - Municipal Gallery, Walldorf - Germany
1999 - Artosphera, Rehovot - Israel
1998 - Cultural Center, Rishon-Lezion - Israel
1997 - Municipal Gallery, Heidelberg - Germany
1996 - The Wine Cellar, Rishon-Letzion - Israel
1996 - Municipal Gallery, Rehovot - Israel
1995 - Artists House, Tel Aviv
1992 - Navon Art Gallery, Jerusalem
1992 - Shalom Tower, Tel-Aviv - Israel
1987 - Municipal Gallery - Rehovot - Israel
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2009 - Mabat Gallery - Tel-Aviv
2007 - Alternativ Gallery, Jafo-Israel
2006 - Dundikov House, Rehovot - Israel
2005 - Meirov Culture Center, Holon - Israel
2004 - Momus Gallery - Atlanta, U.S.A.
2003 - Preforming Arts Center - Rishon Letsion
2002 - Yad-Lebanim Gallery, Nes-Tsiona - Israel
2002 - The Israeli Opera House
2001 - Galerie Christine Colas - Paris
2001 - Hash'felah Museum - Israel
2000 - Ossijek Galery - Croatia
1999 - Pec's Gallery - Hungary
1998 - Concertino Gallery - Hirchhorn - Germany
1996 - Marc Chagall Artists House - Haifa
1996 - "Hagefen" Cultural Center, Haifa - Israel
1994 - Artists House - Tel-Aviv
1993 - Ephrat Gallery - Tel-Aviv
1992 - Artists House - Jerusalem
1991 - Suzanne Dellal Cultural Center, Tel-Aviv
1990 - Amalia Arbel Art Gallery - Israel
1988 - Municipal Gallery - Rehovot - Israel
1986 - Eilat Gallery - L.A., U.S.A.
1985 - Julcor Gallery - Pennsilvenia - U.S.A.
1984 - Peoples Gallery - New York - U.S.A.
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