Artist Statement/ Biography

Rotem Reshef’s work of recent years creates a political and social commentary via immersive installations and paintings that relate to society’s effect on climate change and one’s relations to his/her private and public environments, while embracing methods and ideas of “Tikkun” and Ecofeminism. Reshef uses waste vegetation (branches, petals, ferns, leaves etc.), collected in the streets, parks and elsewhere in the urban surroundings, and imprints these “relics” onto her canvases, in a technique that resembles photograms. By creating fossil-like ghostly compositions that range from abstraction to figuration, Reshef’s work alludes to forms of life that existed in the world and had been neglected or thrown away, but that get “a second chance” via her artistic practice.

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Rotem Reshef is a painter and installation artist based in New York and Tel Aviv, a graduate of Hamidrasha School of Art, Israel, and the Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her work alludes to forms of life that existed in the world and had been neglected or thrown away, but that get “a second chance” via her artistic practice. Reshef’s paintings and large-scale installations have been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions, in venues as the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, New York; The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Kwan Fong Gallery, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, among others.