Solo exhibition - Pnina Reichman

Born in Kassel, Germany, 1947

Lives and works in Tel Aviv

Pnina Reichman's visual language is connected to artistic gestures typical of the art of the founders of Modernism – including Kazimir Malevich, Jackson Pollock, Francis Picabia, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, Sol Lewitt, and Cy Twombly. She draws with a confident line, creating a tangle of flowery and vegetal images that develop in a pattern, though also as a living organism. The use of color is prominent in these images – blue, red, and black. Reichman often creates gestures referring to drips in her paintings – a concept and action that are familiar in the artistic idiom. Yet she does not allow the paint to drip, but rather draws a "drip." As she puts it, "when I paint Jackson Pollock I don't really pour out paint, I indicate the pouring-out by drawing it, and when I paint Picabia I don't spray the paint – I draw the spray."