Larry Abramson Biography

Larry Abramson was born in South Africa in 1954, but his family settled in Israel in 1961. Abramson's first solo exhibition was in 1975. His work during the 1980s dealt with a variety of iconic symbols from modernist European art, particularly the "Black Square" by Kazimir Malevich, which he used to create dynamic situations combining abstraction and a figurative art idiom. During 1993 and 1994 Abramson created the series of work "tsooba," composed of 38 landscape paintings (oil on canvas), 38 impressions on newspaper of the landscape paintings. Abramson painted the view realistically and then defaced it.