Post by joshualinergallery on Apr 13, 2012 12:18:58 GMT -8
Yoram Wolberger uses childhood toys and everyday domestic items to create his large scale sculptures, foregrounding the latent symbolism and cultural paradigms of these objects that so subtly inform Western culture. By enlarging this ephemera to life size, Wolberger emphasizes the distortions of their original manufacture disallowing any real illusion and conceptually forcing the viewer to reconsider their meanings. When enlarged beyond any possibility of dismissal, we see that toy soldiers create lines between Us and Them, plastic cowboys and Indians marginalize and stereotype the Other, even wedding cake bride and groom figurines dictate our expected gender roles.
Wolberger (born 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute's (CA) New Genres Department. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), deCordova Sculpture Park (MA), the Aldrich Contemporary Museum (CT), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL) and the Israeli Museum of Modern Art (Israel) among others. His works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA) and the Orange County Museum of Art (CA). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Petting Zoo
Cast plastic and polyester foam
Dimensions variable
Edition of six
Lamb
Cast plastic and polyester foam
23 x 5.5 x 14 in.
Edition of six
Sheep
Cast plastic and polyester foam
30 x 12 x 15 in.
Edition of six
Wolberger (born 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute's (CA) New Genres Department. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), deCordova Sculpture Park (MA), the Aldrich Contemporary Museum (CT), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL) and the Israeli Museum of Modern Art (Israel) among others. His works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA) and the Orange County Museum of Art (CA). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Petting Zoo
Cast plastic and polyester foam
Dimensions variable
Edition of six
Lamb
Cast plastic and polyester foam
23 x 5.5 x 14 in.
Edition of six
Sheep
Cast plastic and polyester foam
30 x 12 x 15 in.
Edition of six