Ayelet Carmi, (Hebrew: אילת כרמי, born 21 July 1967) is an Israeli painter and installation artist.
Biography
Carmi was born in 1967 in Kibbutz Beit HaShita. She is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Her works are characterized by feminine figures in mythological settings, organic hybrids and evocative machinery. Based in traditional painterly technique, her works offer a complex take on the representational style of the Western tradition while opening up to a world of imaginary figments and metamorphoses.
Galia Bar Or, the director and curator of The Museum of Art in Ein Harod, considers Carmi as: “the inventor of a new genre of painting all her own. Cleverly escaping the entrapments of traditional painting, her work engages in a deep and thoughtful dialogue with relational depth patterns, its highly sensitized nervous system producing art that is nuanced, lightweight and fragmentary. […] Boundless and deeply personal, Carmi's version of [the myth of the artist] is channeled through the female nudes that dominate her work, women whose brushstrokes continuously recreate a world in painting – recreating but never appropriating. Essentially open-ended, her works come together and unravel as they echo a painterly realm suffused with architecture, politics, rites, theatrical sets, imagery and identities."
Carmi's pieces in two-dimensional media often consist of "an overlay of thin, see-through papers [...] It appears as though they are sculptures forced into two dimensions, as if trying to break the limits of their own form."
Recently, she has been developing new work in video and performance in collaboration with artist Meirav Heiman. Carmi holds teaching positions at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts in Beit Berl College and The Tel Aviv Museum's Meyerhoff Art Education Center.
Exhibitions
Carmi has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art Ein Harod, The Haifa Museum of Art, The Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem Artists House, among other venues in Israel. She participated in group exhibitions locally and internationally, showing her work at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan, The Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod, the Alexander Ochs Gallery in Berlin and more.
Awards
2017 minister of culture award
2017 Support from Asylum Arts, NY, “Israel Trail” project with Meirav Heiman
2017 Support from Artis, Project Grant “Israel Trail” project with Meirav Heiman
2016 Pais Culture Council's Grant for the “Israel Trail Production", in the field of New Work of new media, project with Meirav Heiman 2015 Support from the Rabinowitz fund for “Eclipse”, Joint video project with Meirav Heiman 2010 Ministry of Education and Culture Prize 2003 Honorable mention, First Portrait project, Israel National Lottery Council for the Arts
Selected solo exhibitions
2018 The Israel Trail: Procession, (with Meirav Heiman), Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel, Villa Tamaris, France 2018 Sphere, (with Meirav Heiman), Neve Schechter gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2016 Icosahedron, (with Meirav Heiman), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel 2015 From Andy Warhol to Contemporary Art: Culture, Color, Body, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel 2013 A Person Worries, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel 2010 Two Thousand Feet, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv 2010 Schatten der Flügel, Liberale Jüdische Gemeinde, Hannover, Germany 2008 Alexantropia, Gallery 39, Tel Aviv 2004 Siamese Twins, Museum of Art Ein Harod, Israel 2003 Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv 2000 My Last Travels in the Continent, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv 1996 The Jerusalem Artists House 1996 Paintings, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv