Yehudit Sasportas

Yehudit Sasportas – b. 1969, Ashdod, Israel.  (Lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv)

Referring to her works as mental landscapes Yehudit Sasportas creates complex and multi-layered large-format paintings of landscapes that are rendered in a precise black and white tonal range. These deeply disorienting and dreamlike panoramas reveal a kind of alienated German romanticism turning nature into an active organism at odds with itself. There are swamps and deep forests where strangely comported opposites lurk—delicate and heavy, idyllic and menacing, representational and mutational—each clamoring to be seen on the same uncertain plane. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, Domus Artium 2002, Spain, and Matrix 200, The Berkeley Art Museum. Recent group exhibitions include Real Time: Art in Israel, 1998-2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Sommer Show, Lehmann Maupin, New York. She also represented the Israeli Pavilion in the 52^nd Venice Bienniale in 2007.