TEL AVIV, ISRAEL

TAMARIN MAKAROV

Crumbling

$1,007.00
Exhibition Submission Statement

The piece is a five angled vessel with chipped uneven upper edge, made of light brown dotted clay. On the outside, the vessel is covered by a gum printed photograph I took of an antique half destroyed building. The shape of the vessel reminds of the shape of a building, and the clay colour matches the colour of old building stones.

The main theme I explore in this piece is the vulnerability of Home as a safe vessel containing life and memories. Once firm, build from solid stone, filled with human voices, then time and circumstances leave a broken house opened up to the sky.

The vessel, like the home, attempts to contain. In my artwork I created a vessel that tries to hold, and doesn’t fully succeed. 

Dimensions: 7”H x 8.6”W x 8”D

Material: Stoneware and gum print photo

Artwork ships: beginning october 22nd

Crumbling

Tamarin Makarov, 2024
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Artist Statement

Tamarin Makarov, based in Tel Aviv, combines photography and ceramics in her artworks using unique methods such as Decals and Gum Print to merge the image into the piece of ceramics. Tamarin has developed and refined an artistic technique - Gum Print - to get an incredibly sharp image made of metallic materials on wet clay, ​​seamlessly merging the image into the ceramic piece while focusing on the overlapping 2 dimensional image and the matter.

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About the Artist

Makarov studied at Bezalel Academy, Fine Arts Department ('03) for her BA and her MFA at Haifa University ('10). Her ceramic studies started at Irit Abba studio ('98), later worked as an apprentice at Jane Hamlin's studio, UK ('99), studied ceramics at Tel Hai Academic College ('99). She had a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Ceramics Center at Tel Aviv (21) and Ha’Neveem space at Haifa (25). She participated in several group exhibitions.

Artist cv

TAMARIN MAKAROV

Solo Exhibitions
2021 Insects, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
2025 No order, Ha’Neveem space, Haifa

Group Exhibitions
2024 Collect Israeli Ceramics, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
2023 Sometimes reincarnations are done in secret, Musrara gallery, Jerusalem
2020 Can’t hold two watermelons at ones, Beit HaGefen, Haifa
2016 Background\Foreground, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 Wet/Fired - 8th Biennale for Israeli Ceramics, Musa - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2015 White Matter, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea
2015 Nature And Longing, Artspace gallery, Tel Aviv
Curatorial projects
2016 Background\Foreground, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv

Publications
2022 Material as language, language as material, Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv
2016 Wet/Fired - 8th Biennale for Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2015 White Matter, Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea
2014 Control Room, Betzalel 7 Gallery, Jerusalem

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