Maya Gold

Excellent condition. Warped stretcher. Canvas is slightly slack.
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Maya Gold studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She was the recipient of the 2007, Young Israeli Art, Legacy Heritage Fund Prize. Gold presents her viewer with a unique perspective on her painted scenes. Surreal stories unfold from a birds-eye view.  Silent conversations take place on implausible expanses of brick sidewalk, or under aesthetic, but unlikely, groupings of matching umbrellas. Gold is strongly influenced by  photography, as noted in her hyper-detailed recreation of brick patterns to her soaring perspective and her description of a moment in time through light and shadow. Her titles often reflect this photographic ability to capture a specific time of day. But unlike photography, Gold's captured moments are not real, or even staged, rather more like unlikely painted illusions. Disembodied shadows often hover over the scene. Characters are caught in a void of unending space, determined only by the necessary edges of the canvas.