The works of Israeli artist Yair Garbuz have been featured in dozens of solo exhibitions and group shows in Israel and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Emet Prize (2004) and several other awards and grants. Garbuz is the author of seven books. He writes widely on art and was director of the art school at the Beit Berl Teachers Training College from 1997 to 2009.
Mah Tovu notes our coming into the house of God, symbolized by the words “tents” and “tabernacles.” Mah Tovu begins with a passage from the Torah (Num. 24), in which the pagan prophet Balaam blesses…
The Great Vehicle is one of dozens of wheeled sculptures Rantzer created for “The Zionists,” his 2001 solo exhibition at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv. The overall themes of the show were migration…
Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…