Photo by Gili Getz.
Reuven Israel (b. 1978, Jerusalem) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn and Tel Aviv. His autonomous abstract sculptures, coated in a perfectly smooth and slick car paint, are handmade meticulously, so much so that they give off the visual impression of industrial production.
Israel’s work has been shown around the globe in prominent institutions such as Fridman Gallery, New York, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, and Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv. He worked with SARAHCROWN in 2014 for his first duo show in New York. He has received several awards, including the Israeli Ministry of Culture’s Young Artist Award, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s Legacy Heritage Fund Prize, and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship. His work is in numerous private collections around the world.
Slip Slidin’ 2, 2022, PVC on Baltic Birch and stainless steel hardware, 22 x 22 x 3 in.
Slip Slidin’ 2, 2022.
Slip Slidin’ 2, 2022.
Slip Slidin’ 2, 2022.
Sundown 2, 2022, MDF, industrial paint, and lacquer, 31.5 x 9.5 x 5.5 in.
Sundown 2, 2022.
Untitled Folding Object 174A, 2022, PVC on Baltic Birch and stainless steel hardware, 99 x 32.6 x 58 in.
Untitled Folding Object 174A, 2022.
Sundown 5, 2022, MDF, industrial paint, and lacquer, 31.5 x 9.5 x 5.5 in.
Sundown 5, 2022.