About Ehud Offer
Ehud Offer Sculptor and Painter Jerusalem, Israel Ehud Offer, a multi-dimensional artist, is a native Israeli (b. 1955), a student of the Avni School of Fine Arts, Israel, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, USA. |  |
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Ehud Offer’s paintings and sculptures can be found in art galleries in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. Developing his career as a painter primarily between 1988 and 2002 – by which time he had already established himself as a successfulsculptor – Ehud Offer quickly found his works being exhibited in Paris, Boston, Jerusalem and other major cities. Clearly influenced by his experience as a sculptor, Ehud’s works can never be mere decorations on a wall, but are independent objects creating their own spatial environment by the strength of their own particular visual obtrusiveness. Unique in the clash between the minimalism of style and the sheer size of the canvas, these paintings invite the viewer to gaze extensively at their surface, at once enjoying the visual brilliance of color and pattern, while – at the same time – slowly picking out the forms from within what seems at first to be a simplistic, almost childlike representation of everyday still-lifes. Wildly intense landscapes and portraits, thick brushwork that lends a three-dimensionality of forms and symbols, as well as Ehud’s own particular minimal format – all these combine to create a whirlwind of emotion that leaves the viewer breathless. As a result, within the space of a decade, Ehud Offer has managed to establish himself also as an influential painter whose works are in great demand in the USA, Europe and Israel. Besides numerous exhibitions, his paintings are to be extensively found in private, commercial and artistic collections, their value increasing swiftly. Ehud’s sculpting is divided into two periods: the early period, 1978 to 1988, and the second period, beginning in 2002. What characterizes both periods is the “human insect” theme that lends his works their unique motion. In his sculptures, Ehud humanizes insect form and movement, thus foregrounding the similarity between man and insect. The disproportion between an insect’s limbs and torso enables the artist to analyze movement in respect to form, then extrapolate these into the human subject. And yet, Ehud’s statues are always firmly grounded at all times – never seeming to leave their base, but containing a dynamic fluidity, growing from their points-of-contact and out into the environment. Beginning with wood sculpting and wood engravings, he quickly shifted to bronze and steel, working up towards the monumental, then back towards more compact items. Lately, and after an almost ten-year hiatus, Ehud has returned to sculpting. The sculptures created in this second period have definitely been affected by the paintings of the past 15 years. Without abandoning either style or theme, Ehud’s latest pieces have a new-found maturity that supersedes the more abstract forms of younger days. A unity of form, the minimalism of his paintings and the simplicity of style have come together to create what will surely become a classic series of fine art pieces.
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