Nava Waxman sculpts wax like a pastry chef builds a cake R.M. Vaughan: The Exhibitionist Globe and Mail, Friday, Oct. 01, 2010 At an artist party last week, I was asked The Question: What’s hot in art? Just to mess with the questioner, I blurted out: Encaustics – it’s all about wax, gobs and gobs of [...]
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Nava Waxman’s Light of Reverie at Nuit Blanche 2010 By Moshe Mikanovsky ShalomToronto, September 28 2010 Day dreaming, fantasy, stories, childhood memories and intuitive image development are all part of artist Nava Waxman’s inspiration in her fairy-tale images. Working mainly with encaustic, or hot wax – which fits perfectly with her name – Waxman lays [...]
Toronto Potters 15th Biennial Juried Exhibition By: MOSHE MIKANOVSKY ShalomLife.com, September 16th 2010 For many of us, pottery, or the creation of vessels from clay, is either something from history books and the museums, looking at broken jars found in archaeological sites, or it relates to mugs, tiles or other home accessories, mass produced in [...]
Toronto woman takes in Ethiopian sisters By FRANCES KRAFT, Staff Reporter The Toronto Jewish News, Thursday, 02 September 2010 When Judie Oron, née Gillman, was a child growing up in Montreal, she learned that other Jews – “people with my genes” – had been massacred in the Holocaust.“It hit me hard,” she said in a [...]
Myriam F. Levy’s Desert Rythems By Moshe Mikanovsky Shalom Toronto, June 24 2010 Visual art and music have many common attributes that both creators and observers are drawn to – mood, composition, tone, value, rhythm. Throughout the history of mankind, music and art affected and influenced each other. Many artists to these days continue [...]
Israeli Art blossoms in Toronto By Moshe Mikanovsky Shalom Toronto, June 2 2010 If you had a chance to visit the Israeli Artists Group’s art show, you were probably impressed with the beautiful art and the show that represented many art disciplines, all practiced by local artists, all Israelis. In this article I wanted to [...]
Dafna Tzur is an Israeli living in Toronto, who has a show on the Israeli Channel. She visited us at our art show, and created this charming video. Enjoy. /* PLEASE CHANGE DEFAULT EXCERPT HANDLING TO CLEAN OR FULL (go to your WordPress Dashboard/Settings/Cincopa Options … */ cp_load_widget(“%5Bcincopa+10613136%5D”, “cp_widget_4fb7fa25bd87c”); Click here to open the gallery.
More Israeli artists show their wares at 4-day annual event Written by Shlomo Kapustin Jewish Tribune, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 TORONTO – The Israeli Artists Group of Toronto is ramping up for its second annual art show, scheduled to coincide with Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day. It will run from May 13 to May [...]
Two Israeli Artists, Two Worlds of Art (Part 7) By Moshe Mikanovsky Shalom Toronto, April 29 2010 The Israeli Artists Group of Greater Toronto brings together Israeli artists in different disciplines of visual arts, to work, socialize and enhance the Israeli and Jewish culture in Toronto. In this series of articles, [...]
Group show features Israeli artists of Toronto By BARBARA SILVERSTEIN, Special to The CJN The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, 29 April 2010 When Moshe Mikanovsky, an Israeli visual artist and software developer, picked up a flyer advertising the art show of the Israeli Artists Group of Toronto last year, he says he was very [...]
