Drora Dominey

Established Artist
Drora Dominey was born in 1950 in kibbutz Merhavia. She studied art in Milwaukee, USA, and Cheltenham, London, and received her MFA in art from Central Saint Martins Academy in London. 

Since 1980 she has been living and working in Tel-Aviv and is a senior lecturer in Bezalel Academy for Art and Design.

During the 80's her work stood at the forefront of Israeli sculpture, and she was considered to be a founding figure of a female sculptor and an educator of many students. 

The start of her life as an artist in the 80's was marked by “forms and forces” (also the name of her finale work at St. Martins Academy) and by creating an original syntax that put together constructivist traditions and British modernist sculpture with a personal language of materials. Her work which favored wood over iron helped to establish the sculpture-furniture as a local idiom.

The "home interior", as Dominey called her works in those years, produced multiple variations on everyday objects and split their commonplace practical meaning from their function as sculptures. A domestic poem showing absence as a living thing. 

The 90's were marked by stepping out of the home sphere and expending the sculpture-object to its local visual and ideological sources, including monument sculptures which are among the prominent memorial enterprises of the Israeli landscape. Dominey's approach to this charged and complex subject brought-forth a critical debate about the apparent male domination over Israeli ethos and sculpture, and the ability of a female voice to penetrate and change it. 

In the last two decades she has continued her articulation of a personal syntax while deepening a connection to the local environment, including its oriental grounds. Her sculptures show traces of a fading socialistic vision and other forms of repressed violence. 

Dominey has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel, Germany and the United States.
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