ELAMAR STRUZ

ELAMAR STRUZ

Elamar Struz (born 1985) – Jerusalem

The name is Hebrew for “The word of the Gods”, “The Gods said”, “God said”…

Elamar is a young artist and graphic designer, 32 years old, which had finished her design studies with a Bachelor of Design degree in Visual Communication from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Tel Aviv. Elamar lives in Tel Aviv today; up until 2 years ago, she managed the studio of the international American artist, David Kracov, known worldwide for his iron sculptures, mostly his spectacular colorful sculptures of butterflies.
Over the last two years Elamar is in the process of a search of identity, creation and research that required independence and income for her own studio. Like every scientist that researches a specific process to reach results, discovery and understanding, that’s how each work was prepared. The result is creation itself, or a series of paintings that are documentation of an identity that occurs in a specific time.
Through the history of art, one of the main issues while seeking for an identity is “the portrait”. For instance, in the 15th -16th century, drawing portraits was a popular way of immortalizing the character at its best, with its richness, magnificence, glory, pride and great vision.

Elamar searches for these characters in the animal and plant kingdoms as an equivalent to the human world. In Elamar’s animal and plant portraits, the search was also after memorializing the subject at its best.
The realism style was chosen to make the exploration more accurate, as it presents all the details while at the same time describing all the facts. This style also allows reaching a high ethical scale of a message that reflects perfection, structure, integration and a harmonic unification, despite the changes that exist in reality.
The background work contradicts the realism style by being multi-layered, one layer on top of the other, so the searching process is being reflected all the time.

The colors expand the range of emotions that arise from the character, sometimes apposing and at other times completing. Here there are no realistic details, so the spectator’s eye can rest on the abstract shapes, moving through the space of the painting. The color palette reflects a peek at the expressive modern artistic style that expresses the emotion like a scathing theatre show.
For example, the pink ground in the deer painting was chosen to reflect an aspiration for a world full of good on the one hand, but on the other hand, the dashes and alienating neon pink points at an estranged, isolated reality that portrays the 21st century of our times.

In a world of chaos, the realistic style that repeats the details again and again, each leaf, each hair, comes to say that tomorrow the sun will rise again, like always, to a new day, every day.
The paintings are acrylic and graphite pencils (sketching pencils). They are available for printing on canvas, a limited amount of each painting. The size can be partially changed while printing on canvas.