Shifra Levyathan

Unbound Perspectives

June 10 - June 30, 2017

Reception: Thursday, June 15, 2017, 6-8 PM

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Shifra’s direct experiences of the landscapes of towns and cities are but a starting point for photographs that come to be altered via digital technology. Beginning with her digital camera, snapping photos of architectural structures and social situations, she then filters these moments through computer software, creating surrealistic and sometimes startling images. This blend of photographic realism with digital alterations lends her work an almost predictive character — as though she were recreating scenes and juxtapositions of phenomena which are only dimly suggested by actual environments.

Her intuition for what is most foreboding in a landscape, city street, or place of dwelling darkly crystallizes in the photograph The Haunted House. Here, a more of less conventionally elegant house has been ripped from any familiar context where it might appear warm and inviting. Instead, it seems collaged to an arid, Mars-like desert, where the only signs of life are occasional weeds and winged creatures which seem to circle the house. The anxiety-inducing character of the house’s facade feels uncomfortably close despite all suggestions of distance.

 

Shifra is an award-winning artist who has had an album of her works published and has exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions.

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Shifra Levyathan

Unbound Perspectives

June 10 - June 30, 2017

Reception: Thursday, June 15, 2017, 6-8 PM

New Solutions
New Solutions

Digital C-print
21" x 27.5"

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Shifra’s direct experiences of the landscapes of towns and cities are but a starting point for photographs that come to be altered via digital technology. Beginning with her digital camera, snapping photos of architectural structures and social situations, she then filters these moments through computer software, creating surrealistic and sometimes startling images. This blend of photographic realism with digital alterations lends her work an almost predictive character — as though she were recreating scenes and juxtapositions of phenomena which are only dimly suggested by actual environments.

Her intuition for what is most foreboding in a landscape, city street, or place of dwelling darkly crystallizes in the photograph The Haunted House. Here, a more of less conventionally elegant house has been ripped from any familiar context where it might appear warm and inviting. Instead, it seems collaged to an arid, Mars-like desert, where the only signs of life are occasional weeds and winged creatures which seem to circle the house. The anxiety-inducing character of the house’s facade feels uncomfortably close despite all suggestions of distance.

 

Shifra is an award-winning artist who has had an album of her works published and has exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions.

New Solutions
New Solutions
A Story in 3 Chapters
A Story in 3 Chapters
Floating City
Floating City
Floating Earth
Floating Earth
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Unbound Perspectives | June 10 - June 30, 2017

The Infinity of Thoughts
50" x 50" - Acrylic on Canvas
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