My work embodies yearnings to discover the invisible line between reality and feeling. The recurring motive is the dialogue between the camera and the image, struggling to convey what is seen and what is hinted, trespassing from time into space and beyond, touching the simplest, most authentic sensations.
Through the process of layering of various images and objects, meticulous editing and subtracting, the landscape created
conveys a complex multi-dimensional tale, in which nature is embodied in all its creations.
As opposed to present currents in art that focus on subjects of destruction, retreat and withdrawal, my work concentrates
on discovery and displaying the splendor that, in my estimation, provides the basis for our continued existence.
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Drora Spitz
Born in Haifa, 1944. Lives and works in Haifa.
Education
1960 – 1963 Photography major
Wizo - Canada High School of the Arts, Haifa
1971 Studied at the Agfa - Gevaert
School of Photography, Antwerp, Belguim
1972 Studied silkscreen printing,
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1981, 1984 Participated in professional workshops
Arles, France
1991 Studied production and video photography,
Western Galilee College
Administrative
and Teaching Positions
1978 – 2004 Director of the Photography Department
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
1990-7, 2005 Taught undergraduate photography courses,
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Selected Group Exhibitions
1975 “Small Scale” Artists House, Tel Aviv
1979 “To Santa Caterina with Love”
The White Gallery, Tel Aviv
1984 “Window, Room, Furniture”
Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod
1988 “Dance and Photography,” Nikon Live Gallery, Zurich
1990 “L’Orient des Cafes” Institut Français
Tel Aviv and other Mediterranean countries
2006 "Between Yesterday and Tomorrow"
ZOA New Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 "Glances at a Portrait" Danon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 "In Sight," Mirai Gallery, Tokyo
2011 "Butoh-Dance of the soul"
The Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art & Studies.
2013 "The wilderness my brother wanders"
Cnaanite poetry and contemporary Photography.
The Social Gallery-Musrara, Jerusalem
2013 "Variations on Dance" ,Yavne Art Workshop, Yavne
2015 "From Caravaggio to present day"
Sale del Bramante Piazza del Popolo. Rome
2016 "In memory of Ylona Aron"
Artists' tributes, Artists House, Tel Aviv
2016 "Bustan Khayat", Haifa City Museum, Haifa
2016 "In the mirror of artists"
Rosenthalis House Gallery, Yafo
2018 "Eye to Zion" The Ein Hod Central Art Gallery, Ein Hod
2019 "Animal" Basis Gallery Herzliya
2022 "On Two, On Four", Tel Aviv Artists House
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1972 "Color Photographs" The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1974 "Photographs – Dora Spitz" Art Department Gallery, University of Haifa
1976 Ugarit Gallery, Tel Aviv
1979 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, NewYork
1982 The Citadel Gallery, Caesarea
1985 Spectrum Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain
1988 "Bodies in Movement"
The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa
1989 "Landscape and Movement"
Institut Français, Tel Aviv
1990 "Images in Movement" Visage Gallery, London
1995 "The Dance"
The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai
2005 "The Secret of Light" The Photography Lab gallery, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
2007 "Eye of the Storm" The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
2010 "Light in the Mirror of Time" Artists House, Tel Aviv
2017 "Kyoto Poetics" Artists House, Tel Aviv
Photographs Commissioned for Art Exhibitions and Books
1981 “Itzhak Danziger” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1982 Mordechai Omer, Itzhak Danziger:
Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad
1988 "Zohar Stream" photo mural (15 x 3 m.)
on permanent display in the Jewish Museum, Frankfurt
1996 “Itzhak Danziger, 1916–1955" Tel Aviv Museum of Art
"Tikkun: Aspects of Israeli Art during the 1970s" Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1996 “Itzhak Danziger, 1955–1977," The Open Museum, Tefen
1998 "Tikkun: Aspects of Israeli Art During the 1970s" Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
2008 “My Own Body, the 1970s in Israeli Art"
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2012 Creative Genius" 100 contemporary artists.
Petru Rusu. Editor / Publisher
2015 "The best 2015 Modern and Contemporary Artists"
EA Editor - Palermo. Italy
2019 "The Atlante of Contemporary Art” editor DeAgostini"
Book
2010 "Light Space Time"
Drora Spitz Photographs 1968-2009
Prizes
Collections
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Ilford AG Photographic Gallery, Switzerland
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
The open Museum, Tefen
The open Museum, Tel Hai
Private collections in Israel and abroad
1991 Special Prize at the Photo Collage contest,
Delta Film Ltd. Biennale of Photography, Ein Harod
People who influenced my life
Mordechi Spitz
1913 - 1997
Shoshana Spitz
1921 - 2013
Itzhak Danziger
1916 - 1977
Vicky Remy
1919 - 1990
Aita Kateby
1924 - 2016
Noa Blass
1937 - 2008