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Beyond Home
Rachel Sukman
Dana Krinsky’s artistic route has been somewhat unusual.
Krinsky began her artistic career as a student at London’s Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design, where she studied in the Fine Art
Department, majoring in sculpture (1996). Prior to that, however, she had
already obtained a law degree from Tel Aviv University.
In her artistic practice she opted for small sculpture – medal sculpture,
and in this field she stood out. She was chosen as Israeli delegate to the
“Federation Internationale de la Medaille” (FIDEM), and received numerous
prizes and awards in London and New York. In 2004 she was selected to
design the official medal celebrating 350 years of Jewish life in America.
Over the years she has participated in numerous international shows, among
them at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, at Yorkshire Museum, in New
York, Paris, Germany, Portugal, etc. A selection of her works was
purchased by the British Museum, London.
In contrast to her international success in the field of medallic
sculpture, she kept her painterly practice to herself, and avoided
exhibiting it for many years. The current exhibition, “Beyond Home”, spans
domestic scenes, especially depictions of the nursery that has become a
central theme in her works over the past two years. Krinsky scrutinizes
objects, such as dolls, books, an apron, and children’s clothes tossed
about, focusing on them and painting them. She feels that she has
dedicated this twoyear period to motherhood and painting, while striving
to draw maximum attention to an ostensibly banal reality. Her works
portray what she calls
“maternal time”, thus furnishing these images with moments of grace and
added meaning. She encounters these objects, which have a life
of their own, both as part of her daily routine, scattered absentmindedly
in the messy nursery, and while painting, in the encounter between the
brush and the canvas.
All the works were painted in oil on canvas, in realistic style. Small and
medium in format, their coloration changes in keeping with the depicted
scene.
Each painting tells a little story, and the viewer must pave his way to
it, whether through personal identification or through memory of
photographs from his own childhood album.
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