ARAM GERSHUNI
Aram Gershuni. Born 1967
Lives and works in Tel-Aviv.
Aram Gershuni is self-taught, but he also studied privately with Israel Hershberg, and at the Jerusalem Studio School (1997).
Aram Gershuni has had three celebrated one many show exhibitions, the first of which took place at the Alon Segev Gallery in 2003. The second show opened at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art in 2009 and was highly acclaimed, while his third show took place in Zemack Gallery in 2013, again receiving plaudits from fans and critics alike.
He has also participated in many group shows in galleries and museums throughout the world, including the Tel-Aviv Museum of Fine Art, the Israel Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Works by Aram Gershuni are included in many public and private collections in Israel and abroad, including the collection of The Israel Museum, The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, and the Supreme Court of Israel.
Aram Gershuni has taught drawing and painting in many institutions in Israel, including The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (1997-2004), the Jerusalem Studio School (2004-2006), and “HaTahana” school in Tel-Aviv, which he co-founded and still teaches at today.
Aram Gershuni’s work has won many prestigious awards and scholarships.
“To see, to perceive, is more than to recognize.”
-John Dewey, “Art as Experience”My work is based on acute observation of the immediate world around me. It employs the traditional means of painting in oil (as well as various drawing media) to produce a highly crafted image which, while it might take a relatively long time to evolve, yet aims to evoke a specific, singular, unredeemable experience. This “experience” is meant to be embodied in the abstract, plastic values of the paintings and drawings, and is their true subject matter.