Yigal Ozeri Israeli, b. 1958

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Born in 1958, Yigal Ozeri is an Israeli artist based in New York City. He is a 'photo-realist' painter, in particular of beautiful women in landscapes. A veteran of many international exhibitions, his paintings feature in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, the Jewish Museum of New York, The Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Albertina in Vienna.

His emphatically romantic subjects mine a seam of closely-related female characters. They allude to an art-historical cast list of classical nymphs, dryads, Botticelli goddesses and Pre-Raphaelite muses. His sylph-like models are contemporary iterations of such enduring archetypes, strategically placed in evocative settings.

 

The paintings are virtuoso displays of rigorously-controlled technique, intended to bring about an appearance of intense and compelling realism. Ozeri pays careful attention to the soft tonalities of the body, the subtleties of drapery, the play of both diffused and focussed light across form and landscape and the rendering of the variegated textures of surface. These are images of someone immediately present; the artist's meticulously-crafted recreation of a snapshot moment insistently demands our attention.

 

The painter appears to capture his subject at an outwardly ephemeral and fleeting point in time, nevertheless one that is alluring and sensuous. We detect a pause, the pulse is stilled, motion is suspended and we gaze forensically at the painting (the model sometimes gazes back, with an air of cool regard or counter-interrogation). At this point all kinds of questions and curiosities arise. Are these simply highly accomplished portraits or are these women also allegorical figures?

 

Yigal Ozeri's work articulates the attractions of the transient fragility of the human form. His painstaking practice translates it into something immanently 'real', preserving a record of that which passes too quickly.

 

 

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Works
  • Backseat Beauty
    Backseat Beauty, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    76.2 x 50.8 cm
    30 x 20 in
  • Crimson Cowgirl
    Crimson Cowgirl, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 50.8 cm
    20 x 20 in
  • Desert Drive
    Desert Drive, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    76.2 x 50.8 cm
    30 x 20 in
  • Meeting Place
    Meeting Place, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    76.2 x 76.2 cm
    30 x 30 in
  • Ranch Girl
    Ranch Girl, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 50.8 cm
    20 x 20 in
  • Worn Leather
    Worn Leather, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    76.2 x 76.2 cm
    30 x 30 in
  • Countryside Cravings
    Countryside Cravings, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    101.6 x 76.2 cm
    40 x 30 in
  • Sunlit Oasis
    Sunlit Oasis, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    30.5 x 20.3 cm
    12 x 8 in
  • Untamed Spirit
    Untamed Spirit, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    76.2 x 76.2 cm
    30 x 30 in
  • Urban Serenity
    Urban Serenity, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    30.5 x 20.3 cm
    12 x 8 in
  • Afternoon Stroll; London Stories
    Afternoon Stroll; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Candy Apple Dreams; London Stories
    Candy Apple Dreams; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Coffee Break; London Stories
    Coffee Break; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    30.5 x 45.7 cm
    12 x 18 in
  • Deli Run; London Stories
    Deli Run; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    30.5 x 45.7 cm
    12 x 18 in
  • Golden Hour; London Stories
    Golden Hour; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Lady V; London Stories
    Lady V; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    101.6 x 68.6 cm
    40 x 27 in
  • Laundry Day; London Stories
    Laundry Day; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Mindful Practice; London Stories
    Mindful Practice; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Night Market; London Stories
    Night Market; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Phone Break; London Stories
    Phone Break; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Smooth Ride; London Stories
    Smooth Ride; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Street Beats; London Stories
    Street Beats; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Taxi Driver; London Stories
    Taxi Driver; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    30.5 x 45.7 cm
    12 x 18 in
  • Tranquil School; London Stories
    Tranquil School; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Tuned In; London Stories
    Tuned In; London Stories, 2023
    Oil on canvas
    50.8 x 76.2 cm
    20 x 30 in
  • Garden of the Gods
    Garden of the Gods, 2011
    Oil on paper
    106.7 x 152.4 cm
    42 x 60 in
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