Joshua (Shuky) Borkovsky ( Hebrew: יהושע (שוקי) בורקובסקי; b. 19 January 1952 in Rishon LeZion) is an Israeli artist who lives and works in Jerusalem.

Biography

Joshua (Shuky) Borkovsky was born in 1952. From 1973 to 1977, he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He began teaching at the Art Teachers College in Ramat Hasharon in 1978. In 1979, he joined the faculty of Bezalel. He has also taught workshops at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. In 1980-81, he attended

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

in New York for his MFA degree. Borkovsky's work features phantasmagoric imagery such as the silhouettes of sailing ships, and cartographic and geometric images. Borkovsky's exhibition at the Israel Museum in 2013, titled "Veronese Green," featured 58 works from 10 cycles of paintings created from 1987 to 2012. Borkovsky creates open-ended cycles with one painting differing slightly from the next. The cyclical nature of these works creates a sense of time standing still. Many of the paintings evoke the image of photographs being developed in a darkroom.

Solo exhibitions

*1979 Yarkon Park Art Pavilion, Tel Aviv (Cat.) *1980 Hunter Gallery, New York *1985 Aika Brown Gallery, Jerusalem *1986 Bezalel Academy Art Gallery, Jerusalem *1987 Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Cat.) *1988 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv *1990 Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem *1994 "The Death of Virgil", Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv *1998 "Pin Cone", Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv *2001 "Voyage", Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv *2003 "Echo& Narcissus", paintings, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv *2003 "Anamorphoses", photographs, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv *2005 "In Between", Ein-Harod Museum of Art (Cat.) *2006 "Echo & Narcissus", paintings, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv *2008 "Vera Icon" Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv *2009 "Vera Icon" Oranim college, Oranim

Gallery

Image:Borkovsky, Joshua- Pilgramage~B86_0877.jpg, Pilgrimage, 1982

Israel Museum The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...

Collection
B86.0877 Image:B94_0753~Joshua Borkovsky-Unitled 1989-90.jpg, Untitled, 1989-1990

Collection
B94.0753 File:Joshua Borkowsky,04.jpeg, From Dream Stones series, 1990
Oil on Wood File:Joshua Borkovsky,06.jpg, Untitled, from Pine Cone series, 1998
Oil on Canvas File:Joshua Borkovsky,11.jpg, Untitled, from the Voyage series, 2001-2
Tempera and Gold Leaf on Wood Panel File:Joshua Borkovsky,18.jpg, From the Vera Icon series, 2008
Tempera on Gesso on Wood

Awards and recognition

* 2003 Finalist, 'Light and Matter' Competition, The Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design * 2013 Dizengoff Prize for painting

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