Bad Waters

Yair Garbuz

2004

Mixed media work of older woman and man pulling a young man from the water as an older man watches from an open window with two abstract works on right side, one of a circus and one of large paint strokes.
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Creator Bio

Yair Garbuz

b. 1945

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.

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