Avri Ohana
Landscapes Refigured

“Ohana’s works are a playland of old with new, the primitive with the sophisticated, the ordinary with the fantastic.”
– Gerrit Henry, critic for Art in America.

The Westbeth Art Gallery is pleased to present the work of veteran New York artist Avri Ohana in a solo show of current paintings. The exhibition opens June 13th and runs through June 28th.

Ohana’s new body of work represents a renewal of his life long fascination and love affair with nature. Unlike “A Figurative Journey”, his 2012 one- man show at the Westbeth Gallery, his 2015 “Landscapes Refigured” is a return to this preoccupation as revealed in new landscape paintings ranging from the abstract to the realistic and the semi realistic.

Always in search of new ways to reveal not only what is seen but mostly that, which is felt, Ohana’s richly colored oil and acrylic paintings reveal open spaces, whether urban or rural.

“Though my work is never a direct replica of nature, I have always been drawn and inspired by it from my early days as a young painter in Israel. As of late, I find myself, yet one more time, responding to this abiding need to capture in ways that are fresh – the mystery, the particular light, the density, the color variants, and the underlying dynamics of a place – to reveal its spirit and its primary thrust.”

Born in Casablanca and a NY resident of many years, Ohana – has lived and exhibited his work in solo and group shows in Israel, Europe and the United States. He was an early member of Ein Hod, Israel’s premier 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.

The opening reception : Saturday, June 13th, 6 -8PM.
Gallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 – to 6PM. June 13 – JNE 28, 2015

Artist Website: www.avriohana.com

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