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Avner Sher
Portfolio
avnersher@gmail.com www.sher-art.com
mailto:avnersher@gmail.comhttp://www.sher-art.com/http://www.sher-art.com/http://www.sher-art.com/http://www.sher-art.com/mailto:avnersher@gmail.com
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Working in the studio
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Jonah, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood,
47“x47" / 120x120 cm
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Dragonfly, 2007
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 71“x47" / 180x120 cm
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Details
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Beautiful, 2002
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
47“x39" / 120x100 cm
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Cuckoo Thoughts, 2001
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Alone with the Cat, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Six Days, 2013 Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood,71”x71” / 180x180 cm
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Cuckoo Thoughts 2, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 71”x47” / 180x120 cm
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Frida, 2013 Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
71”x47” / 180x120 cm
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Bless You, 2013 Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 71”x47” / 180x120 cm
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The Feast, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
71”x47” / 180x120 cm
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Big Mama, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood71”x39” / 180x100 cm
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Good Morning? 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood,
47”x47” / 120x120 cm
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Noah, 2007
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood,
71”x
71” /
180x180 cm(Kristal Family collection)
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Brunette, 2007 Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
71”x47” / 180x120 cm (Beilin collection)
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I am king, 2007
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood71“x47" / 180x120 cm
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Beautiful as the Moon, 2007
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood51”x87” / 220x130 cm
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Untitled, 2002
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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In the Beginning, 2001
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Normal, 2002
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood49”x24” / 125x60 cm
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Leader, 2002
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Fish, 2002
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Untitled, 2002
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
71”x47” / 180x120 cm
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Mirror, 2002,
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Life is just a game (after Benigni), 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood, 47”x71” / 120x180 cm
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Womanizer, 2012
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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15 minutes, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood,47”x39” / 120x100 cm
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Man Eater, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood71”x47” / 180x120 cm
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Hope, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 71”x39” / 180x100 cm
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Welcome to show business, 2013
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood 47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Sacrifice, 2007
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Mummies, 2001
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Untitled, 2001
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood
47”x31” / 120x80 cm
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Diptych, 1999
Scratching, Etching and engraving on cork and wood, 38”x20” / 96x50 cm (each)
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AVNER SHER
avnersher@gmail.com
www.sher-art.com
Born 1951, lives and works in Israel
Education
1984 Art Studies, University of Haifa, Israel
1978 B. Arch, Architecture and Town Planning,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Solo Exhibition
2013 Koninklijke villa, Oostende, Belgium Atelier Sher, Art Monaco Fair, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2011 Opera House, Tel Aviv2007 Reflection, Municipal Gallery, Haagam, Raanana
2005 The Artist Way , Municipal Gallery, Haagam, Raanana
2002 This is his Tatoo, Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
2013 Art Laren, The Brink, Laren, Netherlands
Dacia Universal Art Project , Erfurt, Germany
Dacia Universal Art Project , Sibiu, RomaniaGroup Exhibition, Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv
Unity Exhibition, Memoir de l'avenir gallery, Paris, France
2012 Avner Sher Paintings, Contemporary Art Fair, Javits Center, NY
Art show on Broadway, Dacia Gallery, NY
The Miami River Art Fair during Art Basel Week, Miami, FL
Nina Torres Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Haifa
mailto:avnersher@gmail.comhttp://www.sher-art.com/http://www.sher-art.com/http://www.sher-art.com/http://www.sher-art.com/mailto:avnersher@gmail.com
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Selected Publications
2013 Atelier Sher, exhibition catalog
2012 Scratching the Surface by editor, Arts Observer
Images in the Chaos, by Hilly Moyal, Makor Rishon newspaper
Avner Sher Paintings, exhibition catalog Avner Sher, exhibition catalog, with the Current Art Group
2007 Reflection, exhibition catalog
2005 Exhibition Catalog, The Israel Painters & Sculptors Association, Haifa
2003 The Madness of Destruction, by Anat Medan, Yediot Aharonot newspaper
A New Inner World , by Alim Blitenthal, Makor Rishon newspaper
2002 This is his Tatoo, exhibition catalog
Israeli Artists, by Yehuda May, Auction Magazine
Collections
Beilin Collection, CA
Kristal Family Collection, Caesarea
Private collections worldwide
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Artist Statement
As a child I was never allowed to go on school trips. Being an only child to survivors of the holocaust, my parents were so
protective, fears that something would happen to their son. Like others who had survived the holocaust, my father and
mother never told me about what they had gone through so I always had a strong feeling that my home is full of secrets.
Often I would listen through the keyhole to their conversations and would hear about the long walk they were forced to
make barefoot in the snow, or about the threatening dogs set upon them by the Germans. Only recently had I started to
think that perhaps I am painting my father’s anguished face, and that the reoccurring images are a sublimation of the
repetitiveness of the holocaust images that I had been carrying around in my mind from an early age.
I have always been interested in a relationship between construction and deconstruction. In my early works I
painted colorful compositions in oil on canvas, in the cubistic spirit. I later began exploring the other side of creation and
started to destruct the surface. I am working on cork boards, using a wood scorching pen, screwdrivers and hammers, I
scratch, tear, engrave and burn the surface by splashing wine, ketchup, mud or iodine on it. The work is done without
thought, an intuitive process, instinctual, which embodies an attempt to release control. Only at the end does my
unconscious content emerge, and I often contemplate its meaning only after reading the interpretations given by art
critics.
Each work induces a journey beginning with intuitive unruly desecration, somehow exposing the subconscious and
indelible marks of second generation Holocaust survivors.
This force turns towards revealing the beauty within the ugliness and abomination, creating an emotion full of
anticipation for a better world. Hinting at man's strength, belief and will to create wholeness, a normal and full life, my
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