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RONYA SHVACHKA

Lives and works in Zefat, Israel
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R. Shvachka was born in the Ukraine in 1948 in a physician’s family. Upon own sake into miraculous magic of being. The image of the eye is so often
finishing studies in university (majoring in chemistry) worked as engineer present in her collages as it looks in both directions from the sphere of
in laboratory. In 1991, the artist immigrated to Israel. Being unable to find endless (and often fruitless) human endeavors onto transcendental unity
employment led to a second degree in accounting there. Four years ago, of Nowhere, and vice versa. Art images can thus help, when properly
the artist accidentally encountered Photoshop and was very fascinated. perceived, open gates of passage- by evoking sensation of expanded
This meeting and its consequences are being felt until this day. She consciousness piercing thru the thickness of obligatory illusionist shows
enjoyed working in graphics and the exposure to the practice of art/craft of day to day life. As we want art to open the passage and not become
has enriched my life unbelievably. In years past, she produced some 80 another brick in the wall, it has itself be open-ended and not dependent
works. They were exhibited twice in Israel. Some of them can be seen on on a limited set of interpretations.
my web page www.derosh.com. She resides in a small town in northern That’s why Ronyas collages tend, consciously or unconsciously, to adopt the
part of Israel, is a widow and has a son. Being a simple, ordinary passenger form of symbolist icons, exploring the limits of psychedelic expressionism.
on life’s train, educated in the spirit of Soviet materialism, Ronya never The spare diffusion of colors and such techniques as the use of two images,
expected going beyond what is needed for daily survival. side by side, with some sort of design elements holding them together lead
However productivity, and specifically the artistic one, can be defined to this purpose. This invites us to consider the two as separate states of a
on a deeper level as a creative expansion that transforms survival for its common feeling or theme.

BIRDY, COMPUTER GRAPHIC (CG)S 
 URBAN ROMANCE IN COLOR, COMPUTER GRAPHIC (CG)

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