Dafna alon
Sculpture, Drawer & Painter
Biography
Born 1981 in Jerusalem Israel. Avner is a Sculptor, drawer and painter.
Between 2005- 2013 Avner lived, studied, and created his art in New York City. He got an MFA degree from “The New York Studio School”.
In 2013 Avner returned to live and work in Israel.
Avner shows in New-York and Israel, he teaches and lectures in several institutes. He is the owner of “Atelier Art School” in Tel-Aviv.
In his work Avner deals mainly with the human form. Human issues, such as the delicate balance between the physical and the spiritual, are the main themes in his work.
Avner works in various materials: clay, papier- mache, bronze and plaster.
Avner’s working process is very open: he begins with a vague notion of what he wants to create. The sculpture is a continuous sketch that in a sudden moment, comes to completion.
Avner’s works do not necessarily represent clear human figures, often they are abstractions or essences of forms: hints of human figures, animals, and landscapes.
Creating art has always been a vehicle for his self-expression. Sculpting is a creative, Emotional, spiritual, and intellectual pursuit for him.
WORKS
biography
Daphna Alon was born in 1968, she lives and works in Tel Aviv.
She is a self-taught artist who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Textile Design from Shenkar. Alon is a painter who works predominantly with gouache and acrylics on honeycomb paper in varying sizes with epoxy coating. Her painting could be defined as figurative expressive with influences of naive and outsider art. In her works, she creates a world comprised of extravagant figures and creatures in indeterminate spaces and places. Her works engage with the definition of “the other” and in intensifying the notion of “outsiderness” and “abnormality” as strength.
The figures usually have a humorist quality, yet at the same time, they are also heartbreaking. They are intriguing, aware of their outsiderness while they proudly and confidently look directly at the viewer. Daphna’s works have a dimension of social critique of the superficial world in which we live, which is conveyed with a “tongue in cheek” approach and the use of strong colors and visual seductiveness in order to pull in the viewer and allow her to form a dialogue with him. Her sources of inspiration are diverse and are influenced by artists like Rousseau, Botero, Calder, Basquiat, and others. At the same time, she also draws inspiration from different references of popular culture and from her personal biography.
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$7,500.00
