Orna L.Brock | The “Screens” series. 2011-2020

Orna L.Brock | The “Screens” series. 2011-2020

Orna L.Brock, an Israeli artist, lives and works in Jerusalem. She studied Fine Arts at Oranim Institute of Art and Design, Israel, and graduated with a Bachelor of Education (B.ed) from the Oranim Academic College of Education, Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
L.Brock studied at the Hampstead School of Art London U.K and in Kingsway College, London, U.K.
In addition, she was awarded internationally for a group of sculptures she created in 1995 from “The Foundation for Supporting Artists of the United Kibbutz Movement.”
In the years to come, Orna L.Brock was awarded several more international prizes including, “The International Giotto Prize,” Lisbon, Portugal in 2019, “The International Prize New York city,” 2020, at The White Space Gallery, Chelsea. N.Y.C., “Michelangelo International Prize” in 2019 in Rome, Italy, The “Leonardo Da Vinci International Prize” on January 2020 in Florence, Italy. In addition, she was selected by the International Art Market Magazine for being featured on The Gold list Special Edition #4 2019 and was awarded as a Gold List Artist- Top Contemporary Artist of Today.

L.Brock’s work has been published in books and international magazines, including in the Art Book: “The best modern & contemporary artists” (2019), “The Great Masters of Contemporary art” (2020), “The Art Universal- The Great Encyclopedia of International Art.” (2020), Written by Dr. Salvatore Russo & Dr. Francesco S.Russo. Publisher: ArtNow. Italy, and in the Art Market Magazine’s Special Edition, The GOLD LIST, 2019.
In 2020 she was awarded “The International Prize Artist of the year 2020 “in Sciortino Museum. Monreale. Sicily. and In July 2021, she was awarded the international prize Michelangelo David Prize of the Accademia Italia in Arte Nel mondo. She exhibited her artwork at the Biennale D’arte “IL RINASCIMENTO” in Lecce, Italy.
Orna L.Brock’s art is featured in galleries, museums, and private collections in Israel and worldwide and her upcoming exhibition will take place at The International Biennale of contemporary art, Argentina. 2021.

In this project, The “Screens” series of paintings, created between 2011 and 2020, the images and particles of images are floating and appearing on the picture’s surface without any cataloging system or order.
Traces and remnants of images taken from books, magazines, and several texts. All these are weaved into one tight enigmatic surface.
Inside this weaved surface, old traces of particles and remnants from the popular culture are featured, figures from advertisements, movie actresses, popular icons, and images representing the culture of consumption and the consumerist society.

Those visual anecdotes appear for a moment, then vanish in a glance. As if it was a camera flash or the lightning light. It creates a sense of movement in the picture and a sort of unstable surface. The images and small particles are reflexive and give a sense of musical feeling, like chords and harmonized notes combined in a system of ladders and modules.
A coherent and tight surface is being created in front of the viewer, making him confronted with an almost ideal and harmonious world, although very translucent and fragile.
My paintings reveal an attempt to map simultaneous views as if seen through thousands of mirrors- a checkered eye view. The color palette in these artworks creates a psychologically balanced equilibrium & space. I am trying to reflect this scenery which is sometimes harmonious, integral, sometimes unstable, and chiastic.

As Dr. Salvatore Russo, an art critic and a curator described:
“The geometry of the sign is the great protagonist of Orna L.Brock’s painting.
First, the sign is transported in a hypothetical Cartesian axis and divided into sections. Then, through a unique perspective, the sign is conveyed in optical channels that divide it into cells. The result is a composition of great interest.”
– ARTISTI. CONTEMPORARY ART YEAR BOOK . ARTISTI 2020 . ANNUARIO INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA. 2020. Pp.748. ART NOW . Publishing house. Palermo. Italy.

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Read the full article in the Gold List Special Edition #6