Ora Nissim
Modern Jewish Art
Ora Nissim-artist, born in 1978, a painter, was born in “Mea Shearim” neighborhood in Jerusalem, to an ultra-Orthodox family. I was born with an artistic spark that flame-burn inside me, the need to paint and create increased over the years,
The Jewish ultra-Orthodox world culture is full of rituals and scenes, full of emotion, so I found myself looking at the followers wearing black bouncing and dancing like clowns on holidays and prayer filled joy however sacrosanct and from there I got the inspiration to draw followers in rich colors and not only in black and white,
The observer from outside may see the “Haredi” society as closed and monotonous, but I see this world very colorful.
A broad spectrum of human texture to each his own way to worship God, and so have the need for this statue in oils combined with non-impulsive spots continuations to two sharp colors and emphasizes the texture.
Happiness is always a man’s way of surviving is the phenomena accompanying the Jew has entangled me forever,
Alongside the Hasidim and the followers I drew Klezmer band and the holy city, Jerusalem, in a variety of faces, landscapes sharp and colorful, express the beauty of the old town and the modern conservative city lights of developing Jerusalem.
I build myself a colorful world of happy Jews within the shining city.
This is the beauty of art, it gives you the power to create a world, according the reality and experiences you grew up with.
“Drawing is a way of writing diary”
And a heavy topic such as Judaica receives lightness and freshness when you look at it in an individual approach.
Individual exhibitions:
2011 – “My Childhood View”, Prima Royal Hotel, Jerusalem, permanent exhibition, curator Madlen Va’anunu.
2011 – “Jerusalem’s Sceneries and Life”, Jerusalem’s municipality building, Kikar Safra 1, in the gallery. Curator Madlen Va’anunu.
2010 – “Views and Yearning”, Nurit katzir Theater. Curator Madlen Va’anunu.
Projects and groups exhibitions:
2013- – Ora Nissim was chosen to exhibits her art at the exclusive Waldorf Astoria hotel in Jerusalem, her paintings are at the Presidential Suite and at the The hotel lobby.
2013- Touch of Beauty “Al H’agam Gallery Ra’anana ,carator Roni Oz
2012- “Naïve Light Above Jerusalem” Senimatek Jerusalem,
Jewish Theater Festival, carator Neomi Eshet Rosentzweig.
2012 – “Touches of Paint”, Jerusalem’s municipality building in the gallery. Production and curator, Ora Nissim with the department for religious
culture.
2012 – “The Power of the Paint”, Bait Ha’Praklit, Migdal Museum, Tel – Aviv, curator Bilha Zeitzik Shomer.
2012 – Launching of the book of art “Art- Art integrations” Bait Ha’Itonaim, Tel – Aviv. Production – Neomi Oz Berkowitz and Roni Oz.
2012 – “Jerusalem’s Mix”, – 3 gallery, 65 Rothschild Tel – Aviv, curator Relly Veser.
2012 – “In the Eyes of the Observer”, Al Ha’Agam Ra’anana Gallery, curator Roni Oz.
2011 – “Children are Happiness”, Gdolim Me’Hachaim Association, Bait Keren Heriseg, curator Relly Veser.
2011 – “Glorifying the House”, The Gallery for Architecture, Tel – Aviv Port, curator Roni Oz.
2011 – “Femininity”, -3 gallery 65 Rothschild , Tel – Aviv, curator Relly Veser.
2011 – “Seven Days Glory”, The Gallery for Israeli Art, Tzefat, curator Relly Veser.
2010 – “Flowers and Orchids”, Ma’ale Ha’Chamisha Hotel, curator Relly Veser.
