Larry Abramson - Artist Info

About Larry Abramson

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    Born 1954 in South Africa, he immigrated to Israel in 1961. Abramson lived and worked in Jerusalem until 2011, when he moved to Tel Aviv. Larry Abramson is a painter who has exhibited extensively in Israel and abroad. His exhibition "tsooba" (Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1995) became the focus of a critical discourse around Israeli "scopic regimes" and in particular the role of abstraction as a mechanism of denial.

    In May 2005 his exhibition "The Pile" opened at the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in Osnabrueck, and later traveled to the Ein Harod Museum in Israel. He held two special museum projects, "Searching for the Ideal City" at the Magnes Museum, Berkeley (2005), and "Mini Israel" at the Israel Museum, Jerus...

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