New York City based Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri is best known for his large-scale cinematic painted portraits of distinctive women in rich prodigious landscapes. With tinges of Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics, Ozeri brings an ethereal and uninhibited sensibility to his paintings. His portraits denote art historical foundations in romanticism, while also offering contemporary notions of sensual femininity.

“My range of work communicates otherworldly emblems that extend beyond the physical human condition — as people examine the painted surfaces, I want them to easily access the texture of the earth, its smell and breath. The idea behind my ambition however, is not to mirror imagery in the sense of Photorealist painters do, but to capture a space between a high- definition world and a fantasy, one that is allegorical in nature. My subjects are to be read as if they were poems, sonnets, not mortals.”