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Join us for a brief overview of The Anxious Eye exhibition by Shelley Langdale, the National Gallery’s curator and head of modern and contemporary prints and drawings, followed by a conversation with artist Orit Hofshi, whose large-scale woodcut landscape Time…thou ceaseless lackey to eternity (2017) in the National Gallery’s collection is featured in the exhibition. Discover how Hofshi’s work connects to the rich legacy of early 20th-century German expressionism.
Orit Hofshi (b. 1959, Kibbutz Matzuva, Israel) lives and works in Herzliya, Israel. She graduated from the Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design in Haifa, Israel, and then earned a painting and printmaking degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Following a decade in the United States, Hofshi received her MA in Arts from Leeds University in the United Kingdom. Her practice focuses on drawing, printmaking, and process-based print and woodcut block installations, exploring the relation between nature and social occurrences and how to make time palpable. She immerses herself in extreme and rugged landscapes for a heightened sense of evolution, time, and struggle—records of ecological and human history. The ambitious scale of her created landscapes evokes the sublime awe of nature and the wide-spread impact of the aftermath of war. Hofshi’s work has been exhibited in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Her numerous awards include the Prize for Outstanding Quality in Contemporary Israeli Art from the Ministry of Science and Culture of Israel (2006).
