Artists

CURRICULUM VITAE RONIT RYVKAHLE JUDELMAN-ROM
ronitjudelman@gmail.com
BA HONORS FINE ARTS SA (TOP VISUAL ARTS STUDENT AWARD) 2010
MA CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY RAU/WITS SA 1990
MULTIPLE EXHIBITIONS IN SA (eg solo exhibition Everard Galley JHB)

An Israeli citizen, recently returned from South Africa.
Works in three disciplines: painting, sculpture and ‘sculpture to wear’.
Ryvkahle’s work is conceptual, semi-realistic, speaks of the human condition and resonates with universal and existential issues. It constitutes a social comment.
A second generation holocaust survivor, the very strong references in the work to violence, war, and loss stem from Ryvkahle’s background. She synthetizes and beautifies the deadly, calling for self-awareness and vigilance regarding political ideologies. At the same time the work exudes much optimism and joy. It speaks of survival and ultimately it celebrates life.
Ryvkahle’s material of choice for painting is acrylic. For sculpture it is colorful as well as translucent plastic: resin and Perspex; contemporary materials which stand for the ‘here and now’.
All disciplines, painting, sculpture and ‘sculpture to wear’, are characterized by ambiguity in meaning, by ambivalence, polarities and a play on revelation and concealment – a dichotomy between ugliness/beauty, fear/joy, pain/pleasure. Such is also the bright multi-colored series of ‘BE’ERI’ paintings which highlights the recent 7th of October disaster.
Another example is a series of paintings called ‘current affairs’ which consists of seemingly jovial and colorful paintings which interpret familiar images of violence from recent news presented on television.
So is the sculpture body of work ‘weapons of mass destruction’ which consists of several translucent resin sculptures as well as multi-layered laser- cut Plexiglas. In the translucent ‘Babydoll’, a hand-granade is implanted. The appearance of all the attractive and colorful toy-like sculptures bellies their dark and ominous content.
Ryvkahle’s ‘sculpture to wear’, translucent Lucite as well as multicolored laser-cut necklaces and bracelets feature detachable motives of soldiers and weapons.