About – Carina Kaye

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in New Zealand, 1961

Lives and create in Pardes Hanna. Israel

From a young age, the sheet of paper was a private space for me, where I could organize reality in a way that reflects my changing point of view, and it remains so to this day.

The paintings are an echo of an inner reality. They are based on observing and following the presence of light and the way relationships between shape and color are created, and capture the energy of mundane objects and subject matter.

The paintings do not aim to copy reality but to create a way of expressing an emotional experience, which arises during observation.

The inspiration for the subjects of the painting can come from the immediate environment, nature, memories, dreams, other painters, new places and even shopping at the supermarket.

Between the walls of the studio objects of still life act as a landscape that reflects an inner yearning.

A self-portrait, which is a recurring theme in my paintings, allows examination of an exposed range of emotions.

The encounter with landscapes brings an understanding that the painting takes place in the action of stopping, observing and identifying the visual uniqueness of the place.

Observing and learning a subject is influenced among other things, by the material I work with, and experienced as an intimate, meditative and emotional process. As if searching for the nature of the thing which creates the heart of the painting.

Education

2013-2015 Hatahana, Studio for Figurative Arts, Tel Aviv

1983 -1987 B.A graduate, Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

1986 Student Exchange Program, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1977-1979 Art studies, Center for Visual Art, Beer Sheva

Awards and Prizes

1985-1989 Scholarships for Sharett, America Israel Cultural Foundation

1989 Award for work in plastic arts, Minister of Education and Culture

Exhibitions

1987 America Israel Culture Fund scholarships by Sharet,

Helena Rubinstein House, Tal Aviv Museum

1988 Solo exhibition, the Ika Braun Gallery, the artists’ workshops, Jerusalem

1989 Group Exhibition תשמ״ט ,House of Artists, Jerusalem

1989 Sharet Foundation Scholarship Award, Ein-Harod Museum

1989 Fine Arts Work Award Exhibition, Ramat Gan Art Museum

1989 APERTO ‘90 The Venice Biennale, Israeli proposal, Ramat Gan Art Museum. catalog

1990 Metropolis, Bat Yam Museum, Arad Museum. catalog

1991 Israeli Art Month Jerusalem Theatre. catalog

1993 Sharp red landscape, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1995 My gender, the shades of sexual identity, Artists House, Biennale. catalog

1996 Lessness, installation with Ido Nathan, Art Focus ‘96, Hamumcha Gallery, Tel Aviv

2008 Circle of Light, Installation Prayer, Youth Wing, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2013 Wavelength, installation with Ido Nathan, Hyadit Theater, Parades Hana

2019 Exit and Return, solo exhibition, Municipal Cultural Center Library KS

2022 Encounters, The Gilda Eshkol Gallery

2022 Food of the gods, Ein Dor Museum

Publications

Director of Culture, the Department for Culture and Art 1989 | Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Following the volume / catalog | Heli Gubrin, Sorin Heller, Miri Targan 1990 | Bat Yam Museum, Arad Museum
Israeli Art Month, Israel Festival/ Catalog | Dr. Noa Aviram Pritsky 1991 | Catalog production/ Daniel Spitzer

1993 Sharp red landscape, glasses, sex and art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Essay by Dorit Shafer

Sharp red landscape, glasses, sex and art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1994.

Essay by Dorit Shafer

Teaching

1984 – 2006 Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2005 – 2000 Mashoa, Institute for Holocaust Studies

1999 – 2022 Gifted Department, Ministry of Education