Maayan Strauss ( he, מעין שטראוס, born in 1982 in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

) is an Israeli

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

. Strauss studied

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

at the

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldes ...

. She has exhibited in several galleries and art projects, such as the project "Sharon", that suggests, according to curator

Joshua Simon Joshua Simon (born 1979, Tel Aviv), is a curator, writer, publisher, cultural critic, poet, filmmaker and public intellectual. He currently lives in Philadelphia, PA. Simon curated exhibitions in museums and art spaces in Tel Aviv-Yafo, NYC, Mel ...

, "an unlikely connection between the most affluent region in Israel, and the name of the Israeli PM."https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/sharonexhibition/indexeng2.html&date=2009-10-26+02:29:55 Maayan Strauss studied at the Yale Photography MFA and graduated in 2012.

Exhibitions & Projects

In 2003 she showed paintings and photographs in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

's renowned

Givon Gallery The Givon Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Gallery was founded in 1974 by Sam Givon on Gordon Street in Tel Aviv. In 1979 his daughter, Naomi (Noemi) opened the Givon Contemporary Art Gallery. Since the founder's ...

. In 2005, Strauss was involved in the short film ''Beautiful Tamar'' as the narrator. In 2006, she exhibited a work called "Settlement Evacuation" in the

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 ...

as part of the "Mini Israel" exhibition that the museum held. Strauss's work was a model of a Jewish settlement being evacuated. The work was followed by debates of political nature in the Israeli press and parliament.. In May, 2006, Strauss curated with

Roy Arad Roy "Chicky" Arad (Hebrew language, Hebrew: רועי "צ'יקי" ארד, born 1977) is an Israeli poet, singer, script-writer, artist, and political activist. Arad is the founder and former editor of ''Maayan (magazine), Maayan'' magazine for poe ...

and Joshua Simon the exhibition ''Doron'' (present in Hebrew) at the Minshar Gallery in Tel Aviv. Other exhibitions followed and her works were bought by major collectors of Israeli art. 2007 The

Herzliya Biennial The Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art (in Hebrew: הביאנלה בהרצליה ,הביאנליה בהרצליה לאמנות עכשווית) was an art biennial event held in the city of Herzliya, Israel. The first year that the biennial took ...

. 2008 “Internazionale!”, group exhibition, Left Bank Gallery,

, September 2008 “Family", Project at “Mix-Art Festival”, Rishon Le-Zion park, April 2008 "Treasure", group exhibition, GDK Gallery, Berlin, October 2009 “Artist at Work”, group exhibition, Left Bank Gallery, Tel Aviv, May 2009 "Sweethearts", Project at “Fresh paint Art Fair” Tel Aviv, March 2010 "Correspondences", group exhibition, Yafo 23, Jerusalem, Oct-Nov The Art & Poetry magazine " Maayan" was named after her, and she was one of the contributors to articles as a co-founder & editor. The artist currently resides in New York.

References

External links

"Mini Israel" Exhibition
website
The Doron exhibition (Hebrew-English)
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The Fountainhead (כמעיין המתגבר) - Works paintings & Interview by E. Boganimhttp://maayanstrauss.com/
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strauss, Maayan Israeli artists Israeli curators Israeli women artists 1982 births Living people Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni Yale School of Art alumni People from Jerusalem Israeli women curators