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artreview.com 23 November 2008

Tamar Hirschl's Page

 

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Website
tamarhirschl.com
College / University
Lesley College
Program
MA
Graduation
1 June 1994
Member type
Artist
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Conceptual, Digital, Drawing, Installation, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video
About my artwork
I began painting wall-sized murals on vinyl in 2001, as an attempt to register my shock and sorrow at a world inflicted by war, ethnic struggles, and global unrest. The murals mix techniques used in historical mural painting with the large scale and powerful format of billboard advertising.

Although these first murals were inspired by my experience surviving and observing the calamities brought on by the present world of conflict, including the Holocaust, September 11th, and the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, they are also a means by which I had hoped to call attention to the relationships between progress and destruction throughout history.

As I built upon these murals over the years, I found that the relationships I observed proved relevant not only to human conflict, but to environmental concerns, prompting me to create a body of work in response to the intrusive impact that man’s modern advance has had on the natural habitats of other species.

I started working with deer imagery during a residency at Cooper Union in 2005, combining deer with scientific and terrorist subject matter used in earlier work. In addition to murals, I have been exploring related ideas through video, small works on paper, and various sculptures which also feature deer.

The medium of collage is also an important element in my work, and I have made use of more complex collage in a series of three dimensional sculptures (Civilization), which contain human and environmental elements in aquariums of cast acrylic resin, depicting the clash between the natural world and the manmade.

These smaller sculptures have recently taken on a new role by serving as studies for a large-scale installation work comprised of life-sized deer sculptures made of recycled materials.
Artists I like
Chuck Close, Robert Rauschenberg, Ik-Joong Lee, William Kentridge, Judy Chicago
The centre of the artworld is
New York, my studio

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At 5:54pm on 22nd November 2008, Adamo Macri said…
Beautiful work.
At 11:36pm on 13th August 2008, rozhgar mahmood said…
hello,,tamar
At 7:42pm on 13th August 2008, roger murrell said…
great stuff, edgy but that's a good thing.
rog
www.rogermurrell.com
At 3:53pm on 13th August 2008, artreview.com said…
Hi Tamar.

Welcome to artreview.com.

Thank you for adding your artwork. We look forward to seeing more.

Hope you enjoy the site. Also, check out ArtReview:Digital -- it's ArtReview magazine on your screen every month, and it's FREE
At 10:20pm on 12th August 2008, joanna said…
Looked at your website - great concepts - the deer representing fragility of animal/environment is poignant. Jo
 
 

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