44 degrees art magazine -Circles

ABOUT THE MAGAZINE

The 44 DEGREES is an online magazine and dedicated to promoting Israeli artists.

The magazine deals with the field of contemporary art.

Present digital media artists, painters, sculptors and curators.

Each magazine will discuss a different Issue.

It is possible to contact each artist by clicking on his site, or write to his email. 



The 44 DEGREES Magazine is founded by TAMMY MIKE LAUFER 2013

The official website of the magazine: http://art-magazine.wix.com/44degrees



Drawing on the front of the magazine, Logo and design by Tammy Mike Laufer

Participants 1

YOEL GILINSKY

15 CHAVA POLIVODA

2

DAN REISNER

16 PATRICIA ABRAMOVICH

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IRIT RABINOWITS

17 MALLY ELBAZ ALMANDINE

4

RONIT PORAT

18 AVIVA HAYIM TOVIM

5

OMER SHORR

19 MEGI ROME

6

GALIT ROSEN

20 DALIA SEGEV

7

AYELET ZER SHEINBOIM

21 LAUREL STERNBERG

8

YONIT ROTEM

22 KEREN OR BENAFSHI‫‏‬

9

TAMMY MIKE LAUFER

23 GIL ZABLODOVSKY

10 RAPHAEL PEREZ

24 IRITH GUBI

11 RACHEL KNOPP

25 HAGGAI BEN-YEHUDA

12 ITAY ZALAIT

26 ASHER GIBEL

13 SHARON RASHBAM PROP

27 DROR HADADI

14 DR. NURIT CEDERBOUM

28 JOZSEF RAZ

• YOEL GILINSKY Psalm 91 1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[a] 2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

3 Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.

4 He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, 10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.

11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

14 “Because he[b] loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

15 He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.

16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

yogilin@netvision.net.il www.yoel-gilinsky.com

• DAN REISNER My creation is built from a unique creative model I developed called “From an Urge to a Creation". This work method assumes that the creative origin is connected to an inner unsolved space, which we can be aware of or not. I believe in art as an amendment, and in the creative process as a healing therapeutic process, and from here I create.

The materials I used are tenable, and I always aspire to create with a material that translates the emotion in the correct way possible.

Understating the source of the pain creates the material understanding, and that is why I use different materials in each and every work. The material solution, then, is first and foremost a conceptual solution. I also can be ascribed to a multi-disciplinary group of artists that specialize in combining video arts works in the projects.

I can share from my rich experience in this process, and say that this kind of process in a unique experience, that the most intriguing thing for us is our inner place, and there is nothing more exciting than to depart from it, as an inspiring creation in the world.

In my art, I deal with personal evolution, processes and insights whilst coping with the relations between defectiveness and inner crippling, trying to understand the foundations and the aspiration for rehabilitation through delivering it out to the world as an object. danreisner@gmail.com http://www.danreisner.com

• IRIT RABINOWITS The tiles (“Balata” in Arabic) decorating the houses of the first suburbs of the city of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, so familiar to us, bringing up in our minds a fragrance of old times, childhood memories, roots and a home, reflect the local Israeli cultural reality.

They appear and have appeared as a recurring motif in the artist’s creations.

If, in the past, they performed a secondary role in the well directed scene on the canvas, nothing but a foothold for the main characters or, alternatively, as the background, the banal tiles beneath our feet, trimmed with repetitive patterns and textures, considered to be the essence of practical art-form, they are now slowly and progressively being transformed and brought to center stage, becoming a live and renewed object, a three dimensional form aching to break out from within the flat canvas.

The artist brings to life what was once but a functional, earthy, two dimensional object.

The object, or the image created, now transports through its form new emotional and spiritual experiences onto the observer.

The place of the tiles, formerly in the background, is filled with associative text flowing directly out of the subconscious of the artist and corresponding with the new object / form thus enhancing the experience. rb.irit@gmail.com

• RONIT PORAT Art practice is a basic daily need which gives me peace of mind, discipline and meaning.

In my work, I create elements in meditative and repetitive process and left without knowing what the final outcome will be. Afterwards I put these elements together as statue or picture, meaning the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The assembly process produces opportunity for me to search for a broader meaning, choice, intensification and therefore a kind of therapy.

For the purpose of this work, I created over long period of time small clay sculptures of women's heads, reminiscent of ancient figurines. I tried several posting options and chose to place it in a circle. The circle shape is powerful and allows eye contact between all characters, which symbolize for me the power of conversation. The gold wires connecting the heads symbolize hidden and non-verbal energy connections linking women from different backgrounds and cultures which provide support and free choice. www.ronitporat.co.il ronitporat1@gmail.com

• OMER SHORR My works were conceived by my wish to combine between two of my great loves: nature, trees especially, and photography.

Each piece is an imprint of a magical instant of nature on a slice of the tree’s long history.

Each is original and unique because every tree has its own individual and irreproducible “finger print” that gives the work its special character.

A thin and intriguing border exists between photograph and painting, between reality and imagination.

The use of various tree types such as ancient olive and eucalyptus creates an interesting variety of shape, texture and framing among the works omershorr@gmail.com www.omershorr.com

• GALIT ROSEN Being obsessively occupied with my body, I chose to focus on skin defects, which I keep concealing.

Through a process of destruction and reconstruction, I create a seductive yet disturbing image, that confronts the viewer with a state of dissonance and a movement between attraction and rejection.

The presentation of the images on ceramic tiles, and as part of a wall covered with them, implies a bathroom where the defects have turned into an ornament. bambalit@hotmail.com

• AYELET ZER SHEINBOIM White on white: As a ceramic artist and potter I deal with round shapes. In this works I use the round shape of a bowl as a place for experimenting and interrupting. *This works attended in two different exhibitions in museums in Israel. ayelet.zer@gmail.com http://ayeletzer.blogspot.com/

• YONIT ROTEM My work ranges from the abstract to the clearly defined, and is characterized by a dynamic virtuosity that is expressed in the integration of reliefs giving a three dimensional effect supported by the use of materials from the industrial and construction world.

As a young Israeli artist closely associated with the contemporary art of today, I bring to my work a new, daring and Israeli spirit that communicates with the general public debate of today.

In 2011 I graduated from Shenkar College with a degree in painting and drawing, and since then I have exhibited at exhibitions throughout Israel and the world.

Today I also work with architects and the private sector, giving consulting services for the integration and harmonizing of art in private and public spaces.

My work and creations are dedicated to the memory of my mother “Regina, the daughter of Yona”. yonitr911@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yonit-Rotem-Artist

• TAMMY MIKE LAUFER Circles of Life Any act of our personal circle of life, affects on the other circles of life.

Remember that you are responsible for what you put in your circle, and that your circle will touch many other circles. You will need to live in a way that allows the good that comes from your circle to send the peace of that goodness to others. I am a digital media artist.

My works are similar to mental puzzles, where you can travel from one point to another by analyzing a picture’s symbolic objects. there is always something for the observer to discover.

I never force my vision or push my philosophical opinion on the viewers, each and every one, can give theirs philosophy to my creation.

My art is surreal reality, all in my head. The viewer take a journey to places just as real as those you might find in this reality.

When I start working on a new scene, it's like enter to a fantasy dream. like starting your new only virtual world. “Everything is possible” and in the majority of my works I am trying to combine visual realities, with subconscious emotions and philosophical thoughts.

I create my virtual world, with 3d software and 2d paint software. Using combinations of renderings, lightings, textures and shapes. www.Tammymikelaufer.com

tamylauf@netvision.net.il

• RAPHAEL PEREZ This is the first time we meet an Israeli artist who expresses all of his emotions in a previously unknown strength. The subjects of the paintings are the everyday life of couples in everyday places and situations, along with the aspiration to a homosexual relationship and family, equality and public recognition. Perez's works bring forward to the cultural space and to the public discourse the truth about living as LGBT and about relationships, with all of their aspects – casual relationships and sex, the yearning for love, the everyday life and the mundane activities that exist in every romantic . relationship – whether by describing two men in an intimate scene in the bathroom, the bedroom or the toilet, a male couple raising a baby or the homosexual version of the Garden of Eden, family dinners, relationship ups and downs, the complexity in sharing a life as well as mundane, everyday life competing with the aspiration to self realization – through Perez's life. rafi@art4collector.com http://www.realismart.com/

• RACHEL KNOPP I am an Israeli Naïve artist and a children Book's freelancer illustrator.

I have been painting and drawing for many years. Partly illustrating for children's books and partly painting mostly in a realistic / Naïve way mixed with my imagination and Humor.

When I paint I feel connected to Nature, people and Animals, meaning to express my love and optimism in my paintings so that other people will understand that there is a wonderful peaceful world and put aside stress and sadness. These thoughts worked always for me since I was a child!!!

If you like my paintings kindly see my site and enjoy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rknopp/ knopprachel@gmail.com

• ITAY ZALAIT My name is Itay and I live on the side of earth, which suffers from severe addiction to "More-ism".

No matter what we have, we always want more, thinking that "one more" will free us or make us happier. The common human state is to look for a meaning in his life, an answer or something that will reduce the existential emptiness we all live in. This notion, "More-ism" causes a necessity to do one thing: buy a new TV, new car or some new gadget‌it does not really matters as long as it is brand new.

During the last 5 years I have been scavenging for toys, electronic devices and other materials in garbage cans, garages and on the street to use in my Art. My purpose is to arouse people’s attention through art, offering a different perspective of the things we buy, the objects we utilize, what we consider as obsolete.

My art is affected by my everyday life, in terms of embracing the unknown aspects of the objects surrounding us and by achieving that, fight the automated and unaware aspect of ourselves; i.e. know ourselves via our understanding of the objects we conceive with our eyes. This perspective, so I believe, will encourage people to make a change in their life, whether epistemological or of praxis.

This, I strive to achieve via the visual aspect. I want people to enjoy my art by presenting them a game of meanings we tend to give to objects. This is an experience of the truth from its visibility at hand, a consumer point of view, and from its latent, formal truth or context: An old shoe can be nothing but an old shoe. Encouraging one to buy a new shoe would just deepen our dependency in the things we buy. The enjoyment I suggest, is merely by using the same objects in a different way, attach and detach them to other materials so they maintain their original purpose on one hand and present a different meaning on the other hand. zalait22@gmail.com www.zalait.weebly.com

• SHARON RASHBAM PROP Circles The essence of my art is a circular motion between my childhood and the present. From a lost and insecure child, living on a Kibbutz I became a fulfilled adult, confident and focused. My art portrays my journey. I delve deep inside my memories, turning them into paintings and drawings. Looking at them helps me understand, accept and forgive.

Today when I walk on the paths of my Kibbutz, I remember the little girl on a bicycle and smile. She is part of me but I am not she. The circle has closed.

Sharon Rashbam Prop studied art at the Avni institute and is represented by Debby Luzia, Stern Gallery Tel-Aviv. www.sharon-prop.com dashprop@netvision.net.il

• DR. NURIT CEDERBOUM Those works were displayed in my 1990 solo exhibition titled: 'Yes. No. Black. White.' The exhibition's title responds to a well-known children's game, yet portraying extreme boundaries and states. The paintings displayed in this exhibition engage in essential, personal and feminine questions. Life cycles, psychological states in the pattern of ''life, death, life'', circularity, womb, birth, and center points. All works portray round shapes and/or circles, in one way or another. The circular shapes are part of the painting's structure and components. They constitute an element in the language of art, yet they serve as a metaphor, reverberating to the works' theme.

The circularity and cyclicity theme of those works is not only manifested by the circular shape, which appears as a recurrent motive in each work, and not only in the content and them in which they engage, but also in the cyclicity and recycling processes which those works have undergone through the years, since the display of the first exhibition. nurit24@netvision.net.il www.nuritart.co.il

• CHAVA POLIVODA In recent years I been drawing with pens on canvas. The subject interests me very much because it connects to the arts and recognized that past generations women were I want to show them the respect they give high art should be.

Previous exhibitions used very significant as this subject. Exhibition name: who's bothered to in the evening Saturday, and not switch yarg – touching my heart.

In years past I exhibited anti violence against women throughout the countryso I connects to the subject where I engaged in today.

I use circles in the center of composition images of fabrics I creates. They are an important part of my creation. http://www.all-art.co.il/stage/main1/stage_Chava-Polivoda.htm polivodachava@gmail.com

• PATRICIA ABRAMOVICH Art for me is the freedom to create with no boundaries, to express the diversity of color from which the human soul is composed.

Spreading color across a canvas is a means of meditation; I connect with my inner self. My hands just move with rhythm using the painter knife to mix the colors directly on the blank canvas. I choose the colors and let my soul conduct me, handling the knife as a brush.

The colors merge on the canvas on their own. I then use a spatula to paint over them in oil. When working in water color "aquarelle", I allow the colors to merge with the water in whatever direction they choose.

I feel when the artwork is ready and reaching a balance between the colors. I usually have no preconceived idea and am always curious to see the final results of my painting.

My major influences are Monet and CĂŠzanne but I also appreciate the works of Van Gogh, Sissley, Renoir and Michelangelo.

I am also fascinated with Japanese art and calligraphy and one day would love to exhibit in Tokyo. abramovichp@gmail.com www.abramovichpatricia.com

• MALLY ELBAZ ALMANDINE The concept behind my creations is the perception of objective reality as opposed to subjective reality, which people can experience throughout their lifetime. Both the highlighting and the blurring of events allow fragments and layers of one's life to rely on and touch each other. These life fragments are purposely uncovered and hidden simultaneously. At times life fragments are interwoven into a bead string, a colorful sequence of life's events. The way I perceive the abstract concept of "happiness": it is so momentary and relies and feeds mainly on painful experiences. The stronger the pain is, the shorter and more intense the moments of happiness become, and this pattern functions reciprocally and inversely.

The images in my paintings are borrowed from the subjective experiences in my childhood's world, and the means by which I chose to deal with the real world. Through the transition of time and place, both pleasant and difficult experiences are idealized in one's internal world by an existential defense mechanism of survival. mairaeelb@bezeqint.net www.almandine.wix.com/almandine

• AVIVA HAYIM TOVIM My artwork comes from flashes & brief sights that come to my mind unexpectedly in connection to day life or strong mood of feeling, seeing, touching something &playing the piano.

I'm a pianist & musician, live in colors & sounds that make tastes in my tongue & brings colors & sounds to my mind.

My first & early memory of childhood is painting … Almost no memories accept for painting…

Painting comes to me from a very inner deep place that includes the "flash" of the picture I saw…& I paint from there, usually "speaking" with colors& movements I do with my hands because I'm very much aware to rhythm & sound in painting…

A dance in painting - painting a dance…

The process of painting in a mixture of looking & feeling what it raises inside me.

Working with all kind of materials is a beautiful journey full with joy & wonder. Each journey is different so each work is very different from the other & each work in a different dance/musical piece. avi.haimt@gmail.com

• MEGI ROME Born and raised in Tbilissi, Georgia. Around the stimulation of countless richness in Ballet, Theater, Poetry and Literature, Ancient history and colorful inspirational breathtaking landscapes. Modern cities on the one hand and Villages scattered around, have not changed much from the Middle Ages.

My art is a product of my life, adventures, experiences and dreams, containing elements of a strict framework versus freedom.

Using musical elements to find a way of translating both languages, music and painting to each other and create a synthesis of personal and general language while looking for the infinite form of sublime beauty and yet accessible. Circles of musical elements as rhythm, harmony, melody and from the other hand circles of different worlds into the Galaxy. http://www.facebook.com/#!/megi.rome www.megiromeart.com

• DALIA SEGEV I draw great inspiration from the biblical stories of creation, and they guide me towards abstract, intuitive painting, which relates to Hebrew script, color, texture, structure, movement, light and shadow.

In painting through observation, I see a meditative stage of learning and internalizing the surrounding world -- figures and landscapes.

The colors and geometric forms carry a symbolic significance. In my work the circle represents cosmic symbolism of perfection and harmony. These mystical mandala has a reference to a dominant circle, a central theme, projecting, and dynamic one.

These works were created between the years 2005 to 2011, mixed media on canvas .

furmansegev@bezeqint.net www.segevdalia.com

• LAUREL STERNBERG Circles in the paintings of dancers and the drummer.

Circles have different functions in these two paintings. In the painting of dancers, it’s connected with emotional symbolism. In the drummer image, the circles have no symbology, but are repeating forms, building the composition.

“Velvet Robes”, portraying a Tajik wedding dance. Circles are found in the hand positions and in the suzani tapestry background. Suzanis are a traditional wedding gift to be hung above the bed and help with fertility.

The circles, in this context symbolize women, eggs and fertility.

In “Feel It”, the painting of a young drummer in his creative zone, the circular forms of the drum and cymbal serve the structure of the composition, connecting to the arc of his shoulders and his head. I relate this to the recurring musical figure of a fugue.

www.laurelpaintings.com laurelpaintings@yahoo.com

• KEREN OR BENAFSHI‫‏‬ Circle is infinity, is the nothing and everything as one, where everything starts and end.

The circle shape create balance between soul and mind which leads us to peace and harmony with our selves and surrounding The universe we part of him is a circle plant , all the universe is like one big geometrical nut that made of infinity circles through frequency ands movement the circle movement create vibration of harmony, of the tribe, circle of dance and gathering.

Everything we see is made of infinite layers of circles which create fractals.

My technique, which has a fractal feel to it, creates a constant feeling of infinite movement and gives of a vibration of light. The light as everything else in our universe moves in circles .

With an extended palette of fluorescent colors, each painting is transformed into a three-dimensional window into a unique world or energies = vibrations. vibrations of healing, the human soul healing source is in the circle shape = harmony. All the universe is like one big geometrical nut that is made of an infinity of geometrical shapes through frequency and movement. i creates these unique paintings without the help of graphical computers or even a simple sketch. (Since 1995) Each unique painting is completed by hand from start to finish.

“As an artist, my wish is to portray joy, love and harmony while incorporating nature and the wilderness, and the warmth of the sun, into everyday urban life". www.kerenorbenafshi.com kerenorbenafshi@gmail.com

• GIL ZABLODOVSKY I create between the fields of design and art, I believe the combination of the two is the new innovative of this century where boundaries are held back - and we see through our eyes same things in several ways. my most works are in the video-art medium, that this is the way i feel people can most relate to these days, the movement and the sound working together as one brings me always thinking of catching moments in mine and my relatives life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZVL0pLqFAA

gilzablo@gmail.com

• IRITH GUBI Born and raised in Tel Aviv.

In my work I am examining humans in their natural surrounding.

I am particularly attracted to humorous situations, people and objects that seem peculiar and raise questions.

My goal is to encourage the viewer to make-up his own personal story.

I participated in several solo and group exhibitions. irith7@gmail.com http://www.irithgubi.com

• HAGGAI BEN-YEHUDA I have a craving for unusual sights revealed by a building or a street corner.

I wander around a lot, usually in the early hours when the first light touches the wall, a tree or a street.

In the morning, the wall, for example, go through a color metamorphose and begins to shine. The urge to photograph and carrying a camera on a daily basis, gives me a sense of freedom and freedom is like carrying bombs on the back, that I release while shooting - then something happens, different and detached from everyday life and it's like a new space opens.

The reality I photograph is ordinary reality, but by looking from a different point, revealed to me while shooting, there is another reality. Recurring motifs in pictures I take, are geometric shapes or structures in the urban space. Through focusing on part of a structure and not on the whole, new aspects of reality are observed and unexpected relations between details are seen.

That way the structure loses its primary functionality. Expropriation of the banal view and the freshness of a new look, invigorate the routine of the street or a building, and give the objects meanings that require opening up to potentials of the look and the seen that extend the dialogue between them. haggaigalit@gmail.com http://www.photolight.co.il/gallery/18253.html

• ASHER GIBEL 2004 was a good year for me. After I was diagnosed with Parkinson disease, I had to close my photographer's studio I had to fit all the photography equipment ,camera's ,backdrops',developing equipment into 2 by 2 meter room Any thing that didn't fit in was thrown out The neurologist who treat me told me 'I can't help you any more ,It's like two stuck gears that can't move he was referring to my mobility To make his point he intertwined his fingers and tried unsuccessfully to rotate his palms This image accompanied me for a few days ,until I decided that from now on I will photograph what I want and that year 2004 I started photographing the 'Usiskin forest' that had been planted 100 years before by jews exiled from jafa It's true Parkinson's limited my movement but it opened horiizons of thought and imagination so today I intent on the path I look ashergibel@gmail.com

• DROR HADADI The need to develop and deepen the relationship between private (innerself) and Public is the Inspirational substrate to my new art collection.

As an Artist and a Graphic Designer who mostly deals with a digital medium I enjoy inviting the Israeli cityscape through the window into my house – stretching it on a canvas. This digital-urban world is invaded by canvas and acrylic as another expression to the dual-view.

19 years of creative work at the heart of the Graphic Design and Advertising scene in Tel Aviv, Israel, led me to create, mix and match three of my passions: Design, Art and the city of Tel Aviv that reflect my inner self in order to celebrate the glory of design and architecture.

Meticulous appearance of my work is based upon the conflict between the private and public spaces creating a narrative that encourages a dialogue among conflicted viewpoints. http://www.drorhadadi.com dror@drorhadadi.com

• JOZSEF RAZ Jozsef Raz a Digital Artist Photographer.

Visual Graphic Design and History of Art graduate .

On the way from the Analog world to the Digital world, I went from using direct contact of the materials such as: Celluloid, Steel, Wood, Glass and Canvas to the Digital world where I collect all the materials for my work using the camera and the scanner.

The computer's mouse is my main tool to draw and scalp my work of art.

My work expresses "searching after the beauty in the ugliness and the ugliness in the beauty" and creates an illusion of the fantasy world jozsefraz@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/jozsef.raz?ref=tn_tnmn

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