AT Westbeth gallery: – Avri Ohana

Avri Ohana

The Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present the work of veteran New York artist Avri Ohana in a solo show of current paintings. The exhibition opens on February 18 and runs through March 4, 2012. Gallery hours are†Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

Ohana’s new body of work represents a playful, humorous and somewhat phantasmagorical distortion of the human figure, saturated in bold colors. These figures, which often display cross-gender tension and performative gaze, spring from the canvas in a spontaneous, uninterrupted manner.

The paintings represent a radical departure from Ohana’s former work, the colorful abstraction of microscopic forms—his “Biomorphic” series—as well as from his landscapes, which will also be on display.

Born in Casablanca, Ohana has lived and worked in Israel, Europe and the United States. He was an early member of Ein Hod, Israel’s artist village, and it was there that he developed his voice as a unique artist. Ohana is primarily a colorist. His art reveals a restless temperament in constant search of the perfect abstraction. Ohana’s recent paintings overlap and juxtapose the figurative and the abstract.

www.avriohana.com
avriohana@earthlink.net

Contact: Zeeva Cohen, 212-691-1568, zcohen@princeton.edu