Josephine Yaroshevich

Josephine Yaroshevich
Josephine Yaroshevich
Born	1946; Kharkiv, USSR
Occupation	Artist

Josephine Yaroshevich (born 1946 in Kharkiv, USSR) is a painter and pioneer in the field of Computer Art.

Biography

Josephine Yaroshevich was born in Kharkiv to a Jewish family, and grew up in Odesa. She studied art at Odesa with well-known painters Lev Mejberg and Zoy Ivnitzkaia. She also studied at the Moscow Art Academy under the guidance of professor Volia Nikolatvich Liahov. She taught at the Stroganoff Academy and Polygraphists Institute, and worked at the famous Taganka Theater, both in Moscow. There, she was associated with Nonconformists Group. The origins of her art stem from the Russian Avant-garde; Kandinsky, Malevich, El Lissitzky and Scriabin influenced her spiritual and aesthetic development.

She has resided in Jerusalem since 1973. Here, she taught at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and worked at the Israel Museum, the Rockefeller Museum and the Hebrew University.

Yaroshevich's paintings have a vibrant and changing quality. Artist is constantly in search for new expression and media. Her creativity is free from standard and cliché. She uses traditional oil painting as well as the utmost new digital media. Her works are distinguished by high level of visual culture and colorist excellence. She is constantly looking for new ways and methods of artistic expression, using the traditional painting along with ultra modern by digital means.

She has worked with computers since 1975; when she began working at the Art and Science Department at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem with Vladimir Bonachech. Then, for the first time, a huge colored digital board, connected to a computer, was exhibited at the National Museum in Jerusalem. Yaroshevich exhibits all over the world: in Israel, the United States, Canada, Russia, England, France, Germany, Japan and China. Her works are in museums in Jersey City, Haifa and Montgeron, as well as in the collections of Senator Henry Jackson, Dan Hamilton, famous collector Alexander Glaser and many others. In 2010, "Music in Color" was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

List of J. Yaroshevich Solo exhibitions

2010, February - "Music in Color". Israel Museum. Jerusalem, Israel
2007 - September–October - Art House of Quality, Jerusalem, Israel
2006, December - Gallery of the Palace of the Nations, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 - June - Back Center, Hi-Tech Cultural Center. Jerusalem, Israel
2002 – Shonka Gallery. Jerusalem, Israel
2000 – University Gallery. Beit Belgia. Jerusalem, Israel
1999 – Interamerican House. Jerusalem, Israel
1997 – City Gallery. Odesa, Ukraine
1995 – Intellectuals club. Kyiv, Ukraine
1992 – Srudborove. Warsaw. Poland
1987 – Azorean Gallery. Emek Israel, Israel
1979 – Hutzot ha Yozer, Jerusalem, Israel
1974 – Genia Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

List of J. Yaroshevich Group exhibitions

2009.12 - 2010.1 - МОМА (Museum of Modern Art) Animamix, Shanghai, China
2008, June, July – Jubilee 60 year Israel, 40 Year United Jerusalem. Israel
2005 - Quanyin – Goddess of Mercy & Compassion. Toronto, Ontario. Canada
2005 - Zwischen himmel und erde. Spaltenstein. Germany
2004 - C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Art in Exile, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
1996 – Lit museum. Odesa, Ukraine
1989 – Rockefeller Museum. Studio. Jerusalem, Israel
1986 – Christian feast, Palace of the Nations, Jerusalem, Israel
1983 - Grosvenor Gallery, London, England
1982-83 - C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Art in Exile, Jersey City, New Jersey
1978 - Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Montgeron, France
1977- In favor of the children of the soviet political prisoners. Parkway Focus Gallery, London, England; Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Montgeron, Paris, France. Munich, Germany
1976 -Russian Nonconformist Artists. Saulgau, Germany
1975 – Rothschild center Haifa, Israel
1975 –The Newcomers, WIZO, Jerusalem, Israel
1974 – The Young Israel, Old Jaffa, Israel
1974 - Sderot Hen, Independence, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Literature

Daniel Fuch. We moeten open zijn naar de anderen, de nien-joden toe". Christians for Israel 4.6.1986. Holland.
Григорий Островский «Свет далёких эвезд». 11.7.2004. «Вести», (раздел культуры). Израиль.(in Russian)
М. Гамбурд, «Потусторонние города». 2000. Окна. (Новости Недели).(in Russian)
הציירת שרצתה להיות בתוך עמו".דבורה — «למתחיל» 16 בספטמבר 1974" ישראל.

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