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| Tamir David Paintings | |
| As I was sitting on the Manhattan C-Train, drawing two businessmen engrossed in conversation, an old man sat beside me and started to draw my profile. When I reached my final stop, he approached and handed me a sketch. I looked at my portrait, and realized that I was completely unaware of how much of me is visible to another observer. This encounter led me to develop a style aimed at disclosing the anonymity that prevails in urban culture. I strive to capture and illuminate the internal forces at work behind the individual exterior. | |
| Education: | |
| I am self taught artist. | |
| Awards: | |
| Metro 5 award ($40,000) best young artist in Australia. | |
| Single Exhibitions: | |
| Nov 05 Urban Patterns / Studio Gallery Sydney, Australia Jan 05 Untitled / Studio Gallery Sydney, Australia Nov 04 Misplaced / Antonio Ruggerino Sydney, Australia Jul 03 Works on Paper / Alta Gallery Sydney, Australia Feb 03 Unrapt / Blender Gallery Sydney, Australia Feb 03 Orange Pepper(2)/ Basement Sydney, Australia Jun 02 Eclectica / Alta Gallery Sydney, Australia Apr 02 Sirens / Alta Gallery Sydney, Australia | |
| Group Exhibitions: | |
| Dec 05 Biennale internazionale Florence, Italy Jun 05 Montserrat Gallery New York, USA Mar 05 Audiovisual / ICA London, UK Feb 05 Metro 5 Melbourne, Australia Aug 04 Freedom / Antonio Ruggerino Sydney, Australia Jul 04 Skin / Mars Lounge Sydney, Australia Jul 03 Blender gallery Sydney, Australia Jun 03 Agora gallery New York, USA Jul 02 Orange pepper Sydney, Australia | |
| Artist's Statement: | |
| Coming from a family tree that spans from Turkey, Russia, Romania, Israel and Poland, I have never managed to find one place I can identify with as home. When I was 15 I went travelling to Romania with my father and was absolutely captivated by the scores of gypsies scattered around the city centre. I spent endless hours observing them in the streets as they playfully con the locals, roam freely or play a guitar with magic fingers. The freedom they resonated contradicted with how they looked: homeless, poor and out of place. This paradox produced a life long passion to observe the subcultures created by nomads and immigrants. As I grew older I left Israel on a quest for a better place and the search for freedom became the subject of my art and the core of my existence. | |
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