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Yaron Dotan
Sisters
Acrylic paint and ink on gessoed panel, 2016 36” x 36” x 2” $3000 Website: www.yarondotan.com/ California, USA Image by Yaron Dotan Audio by McKerrin Kelly |
ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
“These paintings are made using acrylic and India ink. They are composed using pulsations and rhythms taken from optical imagery and design. I build gradations of tone onto a rhythmic framework to delineate an image that is constantly being interrupted and abstracted.
Through this work I want to present ‘seeing’ without seeing, to explore the vast distances that separate even the most intimate of connections. We all know and care about others, and yet are surprised sometimes by how little we truly know about their motivations and thinking. Likewise, there are objects, places and ideas we hold dear to ourselves which reveal sudden, surprising and even confounding aspects, even after we thought we knew them well.
I have only ever seen out of one eye, and don't see three dimensionally the way others take for granted. I started making these images with the aid of a neurobiologist who specializes in optics and am using this drawing style to explore questions I have about how the eye works, how this affects perception, and what knowledge is.”
-Yaron Dotan
Through this work I want to present ‘seeing’ without seeing, to explore the vast distances that separate even the most intimate of connections. We all know and care about others, and yet are surprised sometimes by how little we truly know about their motivations and thinking. Likewise, there are objects, places and ideas we hold dear to ourselves which reveal sudden, surprising and even confounding aspects, even after we thought we knew them well.
I have only ever seen out of one eye, and don't see three dimensionally the way others take for granted. I started making these images with the aid of a neurobiologist who specializes in optics and am using this drawing style to explore questions I have about how the eye works, how this affects perception, and what knowledge is.”
-Yaron Dotan
BIO:
Yaron Dotan is a Los Angeles-based artist who works in a variety of media and styles to produce optical drawings, narrative paintings, portraiture and video art. He holds an MFA from Tufts University, an MS Ed. from St. John’s University, and a BA in English Literature from Queens College.
In California he has shown at LAVA Projects, Chimento Contemporary, the Coachella Valley Art Center, Durden and Ray, Surrogate Gallery Projects, bG Gallery, Gallery 825, Trunk Gallery, LACDA, LAMAG, Art Share LA, Atrium 26, and the CSU Northridge Art Gallery. In New York Dotan’s work has shown at Art in Flux Harlem and Spacewomb. Internationally, he has shown at the Jerusalem Biennale and at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art.
Yaron Dotan is a Los Angeles-based artist who works in a variety of media and styles to produce optical drawings, narrative paintings, portraiture and video art. He holds an MFA from Tufts University, an MS Ed. from St. John’s University, and a BA in English Literature from Queens College.
In California he has shown at LAVA Projects, Chimento Contemporary, the Coachella Valley Art Center, Durden and Ray, Surrogate Gallery Projects, bG Gallery, Gallery 825, Trunk Gallery, LACDA, LAMAG, Art Share LA, Atrium 26, and the CSU Northridge Art Gallery. In New York Dotan’s work has shown at Art in Flux Harlem and Spacewomb. Internationally, he has shown at the Jerusalem Biennale and at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art.
DESCRIPTION:
Two women sit on a couch patterned with bright green leaves on a red and orange background. The women have brown hair, ruddy complexions and face each other. Part of each woman is realistically painted. The other part is a pattern of vertical white and black stripes of various widths.
The sister on the left has chin length hair. Her head is propped in her hand and her elbow rests on the couch arm. She wears a loose fitting blouse, white pants that end at the knee, and a watch on her left wrist. The left part of her face and eye is painted in color while the nose, mouth and other eye are striped in black and white. Her realistic left side looks at her sister on the couch, while the black and white face looks straight at us. Her other arm rests on the back of the couch. One lower leg and part of her crossed leg are painted in color. She wears black socks. The sister on the right is realistically painted on the right side, and in black and white in the center. Her hair is in a ponytail and she wears a white top and jeans. Part of one eye and the left side of her face are painted in color. Her feet are realistic and bare. A total of eight pairs of crossed legs in color and black and white occupy the couch. In the middle of the painting, a second black and white striped face looks directly at us.
-description by Teri Grossman
The sister on the left has chin length hair. Her head is propped in her hand and her elbow rests on the couch arm. She wears a loose fitting blouse, white pants that end at the knee, and a watch on her left wrist. The left part of her face and eye is painted in color while the nose, mouth and other eye are striped in black and white. Her realistic left side looks at her sister on the couch, while the black and white face looks straight at us. Her other arm rests on the back of the couch. One lower leg and part of her crossed leg are painted in color. She wears black socks. The sister on the right is realistically painted on the right side, and in black and white in the center. Her hair is in a ponytail and she wears a white top and jeans. Part of one eye and the left side of her face are painted in color. Her feet are realistic and bare. A total of eight pairs of crossed legs in color and black and white occupy the couch. In the middle of the painting, a second black and white striped face looks directly at us.
-description by Teri Grossman
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