Yigal Ozeri Show Opening at La Jolla Gallery on Saturday

Scott White Contemporary Art will host an opening reception for internationally recognized painter Yigal Ozeri on Saturday at its La Jolla gallery. The upcoming show, Territory, was recently shown in New York and Denmark and will be on display through June 2. In addition, Ozeri’s will debut two never-before-seen new pieces that are part of his Aquabella Series, the artist’s most recent body of work.   

According to Scott White Contemporary Art, Israeli-born Ozeri is known for oil paintings that intimately celebrate the raw sensuality and beauty of women in pastoral settings. The local gallery continued, “He depicts a visceral romanticism that has truly captivated the international art community.”

Because Ozeri’s paintings are extremely realistic, the term Photorealism is most often used to classify his work, according to Scott White Contemporary Art. 

“My range of work is to communicate otherworldly emblems that extend beyond the physical human condition,” explains Ozeri in a release. “As people examine the painted surfaces, I want them to easily access the texture of the earth; its smell and breath. My subjects are to be read as if they were poems, sonnets, and not mortals. With that thought, I prefer abundant detail, intense colors, and complex compositions in a naturalistic sense.”

Ozeri first photographs his subjects and then uses these photos to paint oil on paper.

Ozeri’s work is in the permanent collection at the The Jewish Museum in New York, The New York Public Library, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Albertina in Vienna.

The opening reception at Scott White Contemporary Art is Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

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