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Images of three works:
Ruth Kestenbaum Ben-Dov, Prayer Rug 3, 2003, oil on canvas, 125 X 80 cm/49″ X 31.5″
Ruth Kestenbaum Ben-Dov, Land of Painting, 2019, oil on canvas, 105 X 170 cm/ 41″ X 67″
Ruth Kestenbaum Ben-Dov, Ki Tetzeh (When you go out to war), 2015, oil on canvas, 100 X 145 cm/(39 X 57”
Short bio:
American-born Israeli painter Ruth Kestenbaum Ben-Dov lives and works in Eshchar, a small hilltop community in the Galilee. Observation of reality, in particular landscape and the body, is the foundation for her complex works which explore identity and faith and often relate to ancient Jewish texts. Her work is in private collections in Israel, Europe, and the United States.
Recent Solo Exhibitions:
2019 Selected Works 1999-2019, Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem
2017 Studio Dreams, Maalot Center for the Arts
2016 Revealed and Concealed, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
2013 The Same Landscape, The Edge Gallery, Nahariya, & Artspace Gallery, Jerusalem
2012 Facing Inwards (Works 1992-2011), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, catalog,
Recent Group Exhibitions:
2020 Field of Vision, Kupferman Collection, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
2019 Not in Heaven, the Jerusalem Bienalle, Kol Haot, Jerusalem
The Moon’s Reflection on the Asphalt, Beit Hagefen, Haifa
Jaqueline Kahanoff: The Levant as a Parable, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2018 1948, The Haifa City Museum, Haifa
2017 Art History Study, The Gallery for Israeli Art at the Tivon Memorial Center
Tzeno Ureno, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, and Museum of Art, Ein Harod
Short Poses, Hakubia, Jerusalem
The Way to Jerusalem, El-Gallery, Sakhnin
