Yael Boverman-Attas
Yael Boverman-Attas
Designer and artist. BFA, Visual Communication, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
Boverman-Attas is an active artist at the cooperative ‘Marie Gallery’, Jerusalem, as a painter and printmaker. She is a member of the Association of Visual Artists in Israel.
Boverman-Attas lived and created over the years in England, the USA, and Israel. She received several international design awards. Her art and design work has been exhibited locally and worldwide.
Her residency at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, in 2017-18, deepened and focused her interest in printmaking, where she could merge her graphic design skills into art.
Over the last decade, Boverman-Attas participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and in the USA. Her recent solo show “As far as I can see”, curated by Avital Wexler, exhibited at Marie Gallery in 2021. This year she also participated in the 2021 Jerusalem Biennale, in Manofim Contemporary Art Festival, and in other exhibitions. Her upcoming solo show at Marie Gallery is scheduled for winter 2022, at which time she will also participate in the 2022 Jerusalem Drawing Biennale, in Manofim Contemporary Art Festival 2022, and other group shows.
Alongside her artistic practice, Yael owns a studio for graphic design, visual communication, branding, art direction, and production, offering high-quality design for print and digital media.
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Painting from observation is Yael’s means of connection to the world. It is a way for her to stop time and place both in the sense of leaving a physical mark and in the spiritual aspect. It is a tool that allows her to hold on to a moment, to engrave or create a memory, and on the other hand to release it. This duality of the perceived and the unperceived is expressed in the techniques of covering and revealing, engraving and erasing that she uses both in oil paintings and in drawing and engraving. She is influenced in her work by the traditions of classical painting, but at the same time, she allows coincidences to happen.
The process begins with a drawing that serves as a faithful roadmap for oil paintings and prints. This is a process that allows creative freedom for her and sometimes leads to abstraction. Occasionally the drawing is the artwork in itself. Everyday compositions, sometimes random, interiors, family life, landscapes, scenes in the studio – all these are a source of inspiration for her, and from them, a personal interpretation is created in which she examines the relationship between herself and my environment as well as the relationship between the elements in the painting.
