Artist Spotlight - Nira Chorev — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

1952 Born in Boston, MA, raised and educated in the United States and Israel.
1970 graduated from Vocational High School, Tel-Aviv, received Diploma in Fine Art. 1974 accepted secund year SMFA, Boston, MA.

1975 received a Diploma.
1977 Fifth-Year, Post-Graduate major in painting won Fifth-Year Scholarship, used photos to look at the landscape from a bird's eye, searching for positive and negative shapes.

1978 received a Post-Graduate Degree and returned to Israel.
2008 returned to the US Continuing Education Program and Workshops at the SMFA Boston.

Exhibitions: 1988 Royal School of Art London, UK, 1998 Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, 2010 Grossman Gallery Boston, MA, 2016 Post Office Gallery, North Truro, Red Dote, MA.

Artwork at: The Royal House, Hague, Netherlands, President’s House, Jerusalem, Israel, private collections around the world.

Artwork at the Center for Israeli Art, Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel.
Today, full time self-employed artist working in Mixed Media, based in Boston, MA.

Artist Statement

As an artist, I feel a continuous urge to bring to life what I see.
The process I use to create my artworks usually begins with a photograph I have taken, which becomes the central motif, but which ultimately is integrated into the overall painting.

Using a new technique that I developed gives me endless opportunities and capabilities to move forward as much as I want and, each time, bring my artwork to a higher place where I can hear the music play, and each time, the music is different from the one I heard before.

I find inspiration in my daily life. As I go about my day, I'm drawn again to the smallest details of the natural world around me the straight lines of the pine needles crunching underfoot, the tiny flower that emerges from the soil.

I have found comfort, stability, and beauty, an antidote to balance the sorrow and loss I carry with me from my own life experiences. Using my camera, I collect these scenes as memories that I will use and develop as part of my artwork.

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