About:
Sharona Halman is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation and paintings. She is a graduate of Hamidrasha Faculty of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel (2017).
Artist Statement:
In my works, I use sculpture, sketching and painting. I try to examine the relationships that form between shapes, lines, and spaces. I find great interest in the passages between them; in the presence of the spaces that are created and in the creation of various kinds of interactions and seemingly intractable connections.
I am driven by the desire to create a world through only formalistic means and by the physicality of things. I choose to use trite, banal and worn elements- lines, circles, bowls- because of the impossibility of them, out of ambition to create a new life in them, a new thought. Freedom and planning are different and inherent dimensions of the creative process. Every work serves as a habitat in which I examine the potential development of lines, shapes, and spaces in the same situation. The lines, shapes, and spaces are the signs of the language in which I create.
Habitats are the main theme I research and interested in life allowing environments. I find inspiration in my childhood, the time I started thinking about the conditions, which allow a live creature to live in foreign conditions. My aim is to perpetuate, freeze, moments in which I dictate the habitat, and match a living organ for it, in harmony. I believe, and strive, that the object is a result of its bedding, and together they form joint aesthetics. During my working process, I am interested in establishing a relationship with the substance, and try to create idiosyncratic codes, basing on observing nature, and contemplating on my place in it.
CV:
Born in 1972,
works and lives in Tel Aviv
Education
2017 BFA, Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College
2003 MBA, School of management, Tel Aviv University
1996 BA, Political Science, with honors, Bar-Ilan University
Solo Exhibitions
2020 "Habitat II", BY5 Gallery, curator: Daniella Talmor
2019 "Habitat", Ein Hod Gallery, curator: Daniella Talmor
Group Exhibitions
2019 Restart", Ein Hod Gallery
2019 "There", Artist House Rishon
2018 "Bread and Roses", Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios
2018 Open Studio at Tel Aviv Industrial Zone
2018 "Art to get", Art Space TLV
2018 Artist wall, Art Space TLV
2017 Open Spring (solo show), Open studio at Tel Aviv Industrial Zone
2017 "Playing it art to get", Art Space TLV
2017 BFA Graduation Exhibition, Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl
Articles and Publications
2019 "In constant search", Yediot Haifa, by Yoram Mark Reich
Further Education
2018 Documentary films course with the Heymann brothers, Tel Aviv
2018 Ecole Nationale D'art (ENDA) summer school, Paris