​Brush with Reality: Yigal Ozeri

Based in New York City, Yigal Ozeri is an Israeli artist best known for his meticulously crafted large-scale images of women in landscapes. These works have the appearance of photographs, but they are actually paintings. His exhibition, “Brush With Reality,” is on display at the Flint Institute of Arts through January 2, 2022.

Ozeri employs intricate, realistic brushwork to create a narrative that blurs the lines between what is real and what is fiction. He uses the medium of digital photography and processes the image on a computer until he arrives at the desired image, which he then carefully creates on canvas using a brush and paint. Brush with Reality offers highlights from the last decade of Ozeri’s works, from his first depiction of Priscilla in the jungles of Costa Rica in 2007 to his latest series that captures people on the streets of New York City.