Yehudit Sasportas b. 1969

Two very minor chips to botton left corner of frame surrounding panel with tree. One small chip to center right edge of frame. Overall very good condition.
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Born in Israel in 1969, Yehudit Sasportas recieved both her B. A and M.A. at the  Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.  Since 1994 she has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including the 6^th International Biennial, Turkey (2000), Deitch Projects (2001), Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY (2004) and Galerie Eigen+Art, Berlin (2006). In 2007, Sasportas represented Israel at the Israeli pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale.

In the exhibition catalogue for the Biennale exhibition, Suzanne Landau describes the essence of Sasportas's work:   'Sasportas's work is a synthesis of many dual identities and dichotomous meanings, such as East and West, rational and spiritual. It embodies tensions between the modernist, formal sculptural structure and the emotional and painterly ones, between the rhetoric of intellectual discipline and the narrative content. Sasportas's fascination with modernist architecture culminates, in the precise constructions of doors, windows and gates, executed in a strict minimalist language. The technically clear compositions of rectangular forms contrast and simultaneously blend with the drawings and paintings...to form a single unit...Her work is like a three dimensional poem one undertakes to read and decipher.' (Suzanne Landau, 'Guardians of the Threshold', (exhibition catalogue) Cologne, 2007, p. 36).  

A related work by Sasportas is in the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.