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Liana Gross
Liana Gross was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1947
Immigrated to Israel in 1966
She is founding member and chairperson of the Netanya Art Councel.
In her works Liana speaks in symbols foreign to her adopted Israeli
culture. The harlequin, originating in Europe, is a colorful clothed cheerful
figure, delivering serious hard edge messages of truths. Historically,
the harlequins were often beheaded for those truths.
Liana struggles with truths. She delivers a message while capturing
the spirit of things into her paintings. She is searching for a thread
to tie together an un-crystallized image of yesterday, and unstable today
and aches with uncertainties of where we are heading tomorrow.
Liana's canvasses are stark in contrast: the dark course asphalt, the
swift warm brush strokes, and intensely interwoven dark shadows allowing
light blues, light transparent yellows and gold to shine through. Liana
deals with childhood memories mixed with adult realities: the conflict
of her new country and her birth on either shore of the Mediterranean,
confronting the spiritual and the physical, all take their toll. It is
her poetic wonder that prevails over harsh realities.
Yardena Doning Yoner
Liana Gross studied in Bezalel Art College, Jerusalem.
Graduated from Haifa Institute of Technology, Interior Design and Architecture.
Three Years Contemporary Art Haifa University.
Exhibitions:
Represented Israel in the Dubrovnik Biennel 1991 and in the "Mediterranean
Challenge 1995"
Exhibits substantially nationally and internationally.
Currently teaches art at a children institute in Netanya.
Owner of art "Studio Six" Gallery, Netanya, Israel. |
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Dita Liron
- was born in kibbutz in Israel, studied at the Visual Art Institute in
Be'er-Sheva. As a granddaughter of the Jewish Philosopher Franz Rosenzweig
and as a daughter of holocaust survivor, Dita deals with fate and continuity
issues. Her landscapes are of desolation, Here and there, there is a way
leading to infinity. The forms are schematically rendered. The generally
depicted shapes create a heavy and mysterious atmosphere of contemplation.
By confronting lights and darks, a duality of sensation is created by the
use of color - a place of light and optimism turns into a gloomy domain.
The gold which appears in the paintings reminds one of Byzantine
mosaics in which the celestial, the sublime becomes terrestrial, part of
daily reality.
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