My education in art was acquired at Israeli institutions, from Jewish culture, from other Israeli artists and from Western culture.
From an art viewpoint I see myself as part of post-modernism, while identifying with humanistic and expressionistic movements that see the human being as the center issue, with all his weaknesses and strengths. Among my spiritual teachers – artists such as George Segal, Yigal Tomarkin, Moshe Gershoni and Uri Reizman. Among the feminist personalities, the authors Savion Librect and Susan Adam have greatly influenced me.
In my work I have integrated autobiographical elements, quotations from art history and elements such as “objectives” taken from hospital; medical charts, medical instruments, etc. The work process integrates the emotional with the intellectual. Fear of a bare canvas directs me toward a process of planning content and layout. The work begins with flooding the canvas with photographs that are later overlapped and weathered, while going through a process of change.
Ronit Regev
October 2003
