Yigal Ozeri’s recent photorealist paintings of Cristal, the model with extraordinarily full hair and delicate frame, her tawny skin festooned with exquisite tattoos is juxtaposed with the paintings depicting the poses of red-haired Sonia, with her wispily ethereal gaze. Each painting has a mesmerizing close-up and far-away appeal. Perhaps it’s because there is an underlying sense of the not-known that suffuses the work, a paradoxical condition of ineffability that pervades in spite of the work appearing to be, at first, without equivocation.
Ozeri’s photo-realistically engendered paintings have a singular quality and each artwork seems to inform the others. They play off of each other when they are placed in proximity to each other. It is the radiating energy that exudes from the artist’s works that strikes the viewer’s mind’s eye, creating sensorial impressions upon it that linger long after the beholder has left the physical space occupied by the actual paintings. There is that undeniable tremulous intensity that is part and parcel of “presence” in these artworks, each holds its own as a nearly sentient, vitalistic creation.

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