Orit Fuchs: Life's a Beach
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Overview
Fuchs's artworks are playful, charmingly innocent, and tastefully simplistic.
Orit Fuchs is a storyteller with a deep, and unquenchable appetite for artistic self-expression. Fuchs is a multimedia artist familiar with sculptures, painting, illustration, and photography.
Fuchs has a firm grasp of pop culture and gender roles in contemporary society, which serve as a natural backdrop against which her imagination unfurls. Her artwork reveals a place somewhere between fiction and reality, capturing glimpses of wondrous figures and forms.
The most central theme in her art is the female image and the various forms it can take in modern society. Her female characters are imbued with the full spectrum of human emotion and state of mind.
What's particularly refreshing in Fuchs' work is that they do not try to glamorize women or turn them into mundane objects of perfection. Instead, she seeks to capture their drama, sassiness, inner confidence, unapologetic sex appeal, and unadulterated charm. In that sense, her paintings from the VIVID Series are reminiscent of photographs of the elusive female soul. They feel like looking through the eyes of a poet in love, capturing all the spontaneous beauty and magic streaming from those women's expressions.
Another testament to her unusual approach is Fuch's Short Stories Series, depicting faceless women in trival, yet beautifully natural moments. Viewers are put in a poetic frame of mind and lets them fill in the gaps for themselves. Her choice of colors evokes the emotion each piece is intended to capture. This series feels personal and universal at the same time.
Fuchs's sculptures are playful, charmingly innocent, and tastefully simplistic. They include figures of women such as Sofia the Swimmer, Miss Kate, and The Capsule, as well as Pinocchio characters and sumo wrestlers, which can breathe life even to the gloomiest of environments. Whatever the particular characters, they are all quaint pieces of art that represent the sense of wonder and joy of life which our inner child has managed to hold onto.
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