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Artist Statement
Ever since my childhood, I have looked the act of painting and drawing as a way to build both imaginary and real bridges between my memories of the past and of the future. It is a continuing dialogue with myself as well as with images. I am concerned about forces that disrupt and separate people, cultures and religions. My recent works show a world inflicted by war, terrorism and ethnic unrest. I combine personal memories of disasters and strife with images of more recent global confrontations, inspired by my experiences growing up in and surviving hardships brought on by a modern world of conflict, which include the Holocaust, September 11th, the Columbia space shuttle disaster, and most recently, the environmental damage caused by modern civilizations. I wish to express my shock at these disasters and call attention to the relationships between progress and destruction through painting. My technique combines classical mural painting with the large format of billboard advertising. The medium of collage is also important to me, because I use it to represent the archaeology of individual, intimate feelings. Artist BioTamar Hirschl was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and immigrated to Israel in 1948 with her mother and sister, where she lived for 51 years. While in Israel, Tamar studied at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Kalisher School of Art and State College of Art. She received her MA from Lesley

College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1994. Tamar has been living and working in New York City since 1999, maintaining a studio in Chelsea. Recent exhibitions include group shows at the Queens Museum of Art, The Cooper Union, and projects during the 51st Venice Biennale and the 9th International Istanbul Biennale in 2005. Tamar’s last solo exhibition was in 2004 at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. Her work is in several private and corporate collections, and has been shown in the US, Canada, Israel and several European cities. Her painting The Window was selected as the official poster of the 38th New York Film Festival. In 2000, Jerusalem Films and the Government of Croatia produced a retrospective of Hirschl’s work, Bridges of Memories, narrated by Mar

Artist Bio
Tamar Hirschl, born in Zagreb, Croatia, immigrated to Israel in 1948 where she lived for 51 years. In 1999, she moved to New York City where she works and maintains a studio.

Hirschl studied at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem and, the Tel Aviv Kalisher School of Art and State College of Art. She has a Master’s Degree in art therapy from Lesley College, Cambridge, MA and has worked with emotionally challenged children, juvenile offenders, children with AIDS and the aging. In the last five years, she has visited 33 countries. Hirschl speaks five languages, yet says that she best expresses herself with art.

Solo exhibitions have included: Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadephia, PA (2004), Gregory Gallery, New York, NY (2000); Gallery Stendhal, New York, NY (2000); The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia (2000); Roy Furman Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY (2000); Museum Center "Julije Klovic, Zagreb," Croatia (1999); Split Summer Festival, Croatia (1999); Beit Halochem, Tel Aviv (1989) and Olympia Park Hotel, Olympic Village, Munich, Germany [1983].

In 2000, Jerusalem Films and the Government of Croatia produced a retrospective of Hirschl’s work, Bridges of Memories, narrated by Martin Sheen and directed by Jakov Sedlar.