Rhea Carmi

ahmer
arnoldi
benglis
bengston
bieundurry
bittar
bricusse
bubbles
carmi
carter
mc carty
chiang
conrad
dill
echeverria
eddington
fierro
florimbi
francis
frankenthaler
garner
gibson
herman
ITNOP
lederle
livermore
messer
millei
moses
monger
o'neal
osuna
pomodoro
reihel
reiner
reinman
remond
tullis atelier
salzman
scott
skolimowski
skye
strasburg
qingnian tang
trochez
tunney
welliver
 

A Light in the Dark


 


Upheaval
1980
Mixed media on panel
20" x 28"

 


Hunanity's Stuggle III Faceless Soldier
1991
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 36"
 

 


L.C.D.S-XXVI
2006
Mixed media, cotton on canvas
30" x 40"
 

 


L.C.D.S-XXIII
2006
Mixed media, foil on panel
48" x 90"
 

 


L.C.D.S-XXIV
2006
Mixed media, wire on panel
48" x 92"
 

 


Tusunami
2004/5
Mixed media, wire on canvas
40" x 40"

 


Voice of Silence
2007
Mixed media, wire, nails, foil, felt wood
36" x 68½" x 3¼"

 


L.V.D.S-XVIII
2006
Mixed media, cardboard on panel
72" x 48" x 4½"

 


Drawing with wires
2006
Paint, wires on canvas
60" x 11"

 


Dialogue
2008
Mixed media on canvas
40" x 30"

L.V.D.S-XX
2006
Mixed media, copper on canvas
30" x 30"

Divided Nation
2006
Mixed media, wire on canvas
36" x 53"

Descend
2005
Mixed media, sand on panel
48" x 48"

Hovering Spirit
2005
Mixed media, sand on panel
48" x 48"

Primal Fear
2006/7
Mixed media on panel
96" x 96"

A Light in the Dark
2007
Mixed media on panel
60" x 96"

Denouement
2006
Mixed media paper on canvas
36" x 48"

L.V.D.S-XXI
2006
Mixed media on linen
48" x 72"

L.V.D.S-XXII
2006
Mixed media on canvas
48" x 72"

Congregate
2005
Mixed media on canvas
23" x 36"

Full Cycle
2007
Mixed media, seeds, leaves, sand on panel
96" x 96"

Frank Pictures Gallery is privileged to present Light In The Dark by Jerusalem born artist Rhea Carmi. To grow up in Israel is to experience the world both as an upheaval and as a sanctuary. Rhea Carmi, in these vivid abstract compositions captures both the anguish and the peace of her own experience and that of her husband Meir, a Holocaust survivor. Her paintings are prayers. Carmi utilizes a variety of media: oils, sand, water, treated paper, canvas and wood; which she layers, smooths and sculpts to create an intimate landscape that demands a tactile as well as visual response. Her work, recently acquired by the Museum of Tolerance and exhibited at the Riverside and Torrance Art Museums, speaks eloquently of both what it is to endure, and that what we must endure. “In response to war Carmi’s palette and her formal vocabulary changed”, writes renowned curator and critic Peter Frank, “becoming simpler, more sober, more contemplative, turning inward. Some pieces took on the foreboding gloom of war. Into a few of these Carmi introduced soft, even three-dimensional shapes, as if to insist on the reality of human frailty but to also to celebrate somehow the defiant persistence of human sensuality. Such an existential gesture, a positing of the human against the void, suits Rhea Carmi’s style. Carmi insists that we still live with the constant threat of annihilation and that the human spirit cannot and will not be stifled by the threat. Simple or complex, agitated or calm, but always poised and luminous, these paintings argue that, even in the face of death, humanity triumphs.”


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