Nira Chorev

FIGURE 13. Pastels and Charcoal on Newspaper.

NIRA CHOREV was born in Boston MA (1952), raised and educated both in United States and Israel. In 1970 Chorev graduated from Vocational High School, TelAviv, receiving a Diploma in Fine Art, in 1974 she graduated from Israel’s Art Teachers College, receiving a BA. Chorev was accepted to the School of the Museum of Fine

Art (SMFA), Boston, MA to the second-year level in 1974. She received her Diploma from SMFA in 1975. In her Fifth-Year, as a post-graduate, she majored in Silk Screen and Drawing. Chorev won a fifth-year scholarship which she used to return to photography and merged it with the artwork she was doing at that time - painting landscapes on large canvases from a bird’s-eye perspective, looking for the contrasting forms in

OUTSIDE MY WINDOW. Mixed Media on Paper,16" x 22"

color and the positive and negative shapes. In 1978 she received her Post-Graduate Degree from SMFA and returned to Israel. In 2008 Chorev returned to the United States to continue her art education at the Continuing Education Program and Workshops at the School of Museum of Fine Art in Boston. “Using photos to capture moments as memories, the photos I take are the trigger to the landscapes I create from them, the continuing connections between me and nature, the positive and negative shapes that remind us of how things were before man changed nature.” Her artwork has been exhibited in: The Royal School of Art London (1988); Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (1998); Grossman Gallery/SMFA in Boston, MA (2010); Art Takes Times Square, NYC (2012); Post Office Gallery, North Truro, MA (2016). Chorev’s work is in the collections of The Royal House, The Hague, Netherlands, and in private collections Israel, Europe and the U.S.

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